Category: Guild
Guild Newark St. X175 Manhattan Special
Guild Newark St. Starfire I SC Review
There is a fair bit of stir in the online guitar forums about these Starfire I guitars, most of which revolves around the question, how is Guild making these for such a low price? This guitar has a street price of $599 new! In 2020! Hell a similarly equipped Newark St. Starfire III (which is sort of what this should be called – more on that later) has an MSRP of almost double that of this one ($1,555 vs. $835 in May 2020). So how are they doing this? Cheaper parts? Cheaper wood? Cheaper labor? There are only so many ways to lower production costs, so grab a cocktail while I tear this guitar open to see how they made it so inexpensive in a world where the price of everything is soaring.
Guild S300AD
Read along while I regale you with everything I know about these great guitars including why it still may just be everything I need in a guitar along with the reason for me now owning a fifth sixth seventh copy.
I may have a problem.
1983 Guild X175
Follow along while I give this guitar the full review treatment right down to the wiring inside this big ol’ hollow box o’ jazz.
1999 Guild Starfire V in Blue
Guild Dimensional Reverberation System
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Identifying Guild Clear G-Shield Knobs
Guild Guitar Catalogs, Price Lists, Ads, Flyers, and More!
You can find all of them by clicking on the Guild Guitars menu item at the top of every page, or you can access them directly via the following links. Please note that these are pretty hefty pages containing hundreds of images so they may take a bit longer than normal to load depending on your connection and the state of the Internet (and my server) when you make the request.
I may add more sections such as Amp Schematics and Manuals in the future. Keep an eye on that menu bar because that’s where any additional resources will go.
That’s it for now. Watch for a long explanation of the incredible amount of work that went into this project.
Digitizing 2000 Pages of Guild Guitar Catalogs
This took many months but since I have a job and an adult life this was a nights and weekends kind of project given the additional limitations of dealing with college kid sleep schedules and the general availability of everyone involved. This article outlines the equipment I used and the steps taken to achieve that goal.