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Guild starfire
Guild starfire





guild starfire
  1. #Guild starfire serial#
  2. #Guild starfire professional#
  3. #Guild starfire series#

Made with a sturdy arched mahogany top, back, and sides, the Starfire I-12 electric guitar maintains classic Guild tone and response without sacrificing live playability.Įase and playability are key to the Starfire I-12. Retaining the airy, crisp tone you would expect from a semi-hollow body. The Starfire I-12 features a semi-hollow construction utilizing a mahogany center block for increased sustain and chime from the octave strings and reduced feedback.

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This gig-ready semi-hollow body 12-string offers a wide range of iconic Guild tones in a comfortable and affordable fashion.

#Guild starfire series#

Excellent Condition.Guild’s 12-string legacy expands into the Starfire I series with the Starfire I-12. Overall this is a very nice package of 1960s hollowbody goodness including a well=-preserved original Guild-marked HSC. The original frets show hardly any wear and the guitar plays very well with a better action than many.

guild starfire

The pickguatd has a hazy look in some areas from the underpainting separating from the Lucite. The binding is fully intact the headstock veneer shows enough shrinkage that there appears to be a bound edge but is not pulling up appreciably or crumbling. The back of the neck has just a few small dings into but not through the lacquer. A spot of belt-buckle wear to the back which is the only noticeable area of loss there is some typical scuffing under the bridge base. The finish retains a nice cherry color without much fade and shows mostly small dings, dents and scuffs overall. This is a clean and all-original example of this classic Starfire with just some typical minor wear. (4.8 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. (41.3 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 1 7/8 in. Today these original Starfires represent few of the remaining comparatively affordable original American classics of the period still a versatile and great-sounding instrument.

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#Guild starfire professional#

The Starfire III was easily Guild's most popular professional grade electric guitar at the time. This exact model was extensively used by many top mid-1960s groups including the Kinks, Beau Brummels, Music Machine, Dakotas, and many more even the young Jerry Garcia. The Starfire III is a great '60s rock and roll guitar from the end of the "Beat Boom" era, and is well-suited to jazzier stylings as well. This mid-1967 example is little changed from earlier 1960s models except for the Japanese-made machines Guild began using in 1966. The Starfire III is a fully hollow thinline body guitar with a cherry finish, triple-bound top and back, and equipped with Guild's 1960s Humbucking pickups and a Guild-logo Bigsby vibrato. This particular example remains original with no repairs or alterations and is in very nice shape overall. This 1967 Guild Starfire III was the highest-ranked single-cutaway, fully hollow guitar in the very popular Starfire line.

#Guild starfire serial#

Guild Starfire III Model Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1967), made in Hoboken, NJ, serial # EK-2445, cherry lacquer finish, Laminated mahogany body, mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard, original black hard shell case.







Guild starfire