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Guild D55 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar (with Case) (zZounds) Price: $2,899.99 This robust, high-volume body style was developed with an emphasis on string-to-string balance, so that treble, mid and bass registers project... |
Could you tell me how much this Guild bass guitar would be worth?
Q: http://cgi.ebay.com/1974-S-100-GUITAR-AN D-JS-BASS-2-GUILD-GUITARS-AD-/2304151137 33?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item35 a5cf9e05
The guitar i own is the one pictures on the right side in that ad. It is in prime condition with its
A: I have no idea what it is worth.
Franky
1966 Guild Stafire Bass
Just a little playing around on my 1966 Guild Starfire bass. Strung with old Thomastik-Infeld Jazz Rounds. Recorded direct, with a little ...
Vintage Bass Guitar» Guild Guitars – The Jet-Star and Starfire Bass
Alfred Dronge founded Guild in 1952 and originally made acoustic and archtop electric guitars. As the company grew they had to find larger quarters and in 1956 moved to Hoboken, NJ. In 1960 Guild went public and in 1966 they were purchased by Avnet, Inc.
Within a year after the Avnet acquisition, production started shifting to a large facility in Westerly, RI but the corporate offices remained headquartered in New Jersey. Dronge commuted from New Jersey to Rhode Island by private plane, a practice that would end his life in 1972 when his plane crashed while traveling to Westerly.
They remained in Rhode Island making fine quality guitars even though ownership changed hands a few more times during this period. Fender acquired Guild guitars in 1995 and in 2001 operations were moved to their factory in Corona, California. In 2004 they were moved again this time to Tacoma, Washington and in 2008 they relocated to New Hartford, Connecticut.
The first Guild bass debuted in 1964 with the Jet-Star. It featured a 30½ scale, rosewood fingerboard, separate tone and volume controls and an oddly shaped double-cut mahogany solid body.
Its body has been described as a “Hershey bar left too long in the Sun”.
It also came with a single Hagstrom pickup and 2+2 headstock until 1966 when it became a 4 in-line headstock with a “Mickey Mouse” pickup (named that for its small size).
In 1970, Guild guitars replaced the Jet-Star with the JS1 and JSII bass. These Jet-Star descendants were built to compete with Gibson’s EB-0 and EB-3 basses by imitating their design. They came with one or two pickups and 30” scale length although they were also offered in a 34” scale length starting in 1972. Production of the JS bass line would end by 1977.
Without a doubt their most popular bass would make the scene in 1965 and was called the Starfire. It was fashioned after their Starfire IV electric guitar which was released just a few years earlier. It was a 30½ short-scale bass with a semi-hollow double-cutaway maple or mahogany body and a single coil Hagstrom pickup. A two pickup version called the Starfire II Bass was added in 1967.
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