SQOTD

[richardp69]

So, if MF can have the SDOTD I think I can have the Stupid Question Of The Day and here it is.

I recently picked up a 1985 Guild FS 46-CE. This is a solid body with routed body/soundhole and Fishman on board electronics. The plastic battery pack holder is broken but the seller had bought one and never installed it. He included it with the sale.

I'm taking it, and several others, to my local Luthier today for a wellness check, set up, replace the battery pack holder etc.

So, I'm assuming this takes electric guitar strings and not acoustic, right??? (ergo, the SQOTD)

 

[awagner]

Actually, you should install acoustic strings on it, It’s an acoustic stage guitar.

 

[fronobulax]

I think for the pickup technology you want acoustic strings.

Perhaps it is a sign of maturity or senility but I no longer think there is a Stupid Question when it comes to Guild. Between the misinformation that is out there, those obscure little things that only Guild did and then only for a short time, and the fact consistency was never a goal of Guild operations (just to name a few) no question is really stupid.

There are Annoying Questions but they tend to Annoy because the person asking could have found an answer in 30 seconds even using the less effective build in search or they are asking something and the answer had been posted within 24 hours or so.

 

[GAD]

It depends on the pickup. If its piezo then any strings will work.

 

[Nuuska]

GAD - with all your testings - have you ever tested the difference w i.e. Phosphor Bronze vs slicks on the tone of an USD-piezo guitar? Not the acoustic sound - but the electric sound. I'm asking while I'm tempted to try slicks on one of my Songbirds.

I can imagine fretting finger scratches being less - but is there anything else?

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

GAD - with all your testings - have you ever tested the difference w i.e. Phosphor Bronze vs slicks on the tone of an USD-piezo guitar? Not the acoustic sound - but the electric sound. I'm asking while I'm tempted to try slicks on one of my Songbirds.

I can imagine fretting finger scratches being less - but is there anything else?

If I were to hazard a guess, the flats will make it sound like an acoustic arch top, while the phospher bronze/brass would sound like an acoustic flat top. Of course with a Fishman under saddle piezo pick-up, they would both "quack" like a duck!