NGD - Rescued 1997 Bluesbird

[C T]

CL000727, pulled from a Guitar Center a few months ago, now fresh out of the shop.

Neck and body were in excellent condition, but the hardware was a mess. Replaced pickups with vintage HB-1’s w/ NOS covers. Pulled the bigsby (no holes), and added Graphtech resomax bridge and stoptail. Added the vintage Guild knobs. I’m happy to see it looking like a proper Guild again.

 

[chazmo]

Oh my. Looks fantastic! That’s smashing, C T !!!

 

[GGJaguar]

Super sweet Bluesbird, congrats!

 

[HeyMikey]

That looks fantastic! Where did you find the HB1’s with NOS covers?

 

[GAD]

Beautiful. ‘97s did not come with HB1s but it’s glorious that they fit.

 

[C T]

That looks fantastic! Where did you find the HB1’s with NOS covers?

These pickups and covers were purchased separately on Reverb. The pickups were used, without covers, but the covers were NOS.

 

[BradHK]

That looks really nice and I bet it sounds great with those HB1s! Great job

 

[walrus]

Wow! Love it!!

 

[jp]

Good job on a great restoration. I bet it feels and sounds awesome too!

 

[tonepoet]

Fantastic!!! Great rescue job !!!

tonepoet
www.jackshiner.com

 

[HeyMikey]

A later Bluesbird with vintage HB1’s must sound fantastic.

 

[matsickma]

Great looking return to Guild beauty! Did the vintage HB1's require any routing?
Been thinking of installing HB1's on a Bluesbird.

 

[GAD]

Great looking return to Guild beauty! Did the vintage HB1's require any routing?
Been thinking of installing HB1's on a Bluesbird.

Guild Full-Sized HB1 and SD1 Pickup Variations | GAD's Ramblings

One of the questions I see on the guitar forums quite a bit is, “What kind of pickups does this Guild guitar have?” Since I’ve posted in many of these threads, I seem to get a lot of emails with the same question. I thought that I might write up a quick summary of the …

www.gad.net

Search or “bluesbird” on that page.

 

[hearth_man]

Very nice work! It's always great to see a Guild saved from neglect and bad mods.

 

[mushroom]

Black Bluesbird = awesome.


I did sort of like the look of the bigsby on it though?

 

[matsickma]

Slid a set of HB1 covers on top of the black bobbin SD pups that are on my black Bluesbird! That is a good look!

 

[GAD]

Slid a set of HB1 covers on top of the black bobbin SD pups that are on my black Bluesbird! That is a good look!

I... have never considered such a thing! Interesting...

 

[LeFinPepere]

Any experience with these "Guild" pickup covers ? GAD gets mentionned on their page.

 

[mushroom]

Slid a set of HB1 covers on top of the black bobbin SD pups that are on my black Bluesbird! That is a good look!

Yeah that’s cool

 

[SFIV1967]

Any experience with these "Guild" pickup covers ? GAD gets mentionned on their page.

Here is the link, but he explains that they don't fit on real HB-1 humbuckers but on standard sized humbuckers.

Axesrus - Humbucker Cover - For Guild humbuckers

These covers are 'in the style of' those found on the Guild HB1 and HB2 humbuckers - they are, really, just normal humbucker covers with those embossed sections around the poles, so theres nothing stopping you fitting them to any other humbucker.

www.axesrus.co.uk

Ralf