Guild’s second wave of electric solidbodies were little more than cynical copies of Gibson’s SG. Yet how do the originals compare with Guild 2018? Dave Burrluck investigates…
We feature a lot of vintage beauties throughout our pages but most are them are certainly out of my budget. Like every other guitar player, I hanker after that glorious old Gibson, or fabulous Fender from the ‘golden age’ of the electric guitar but, yes, I might have to dream on. Yet step away from the classics and you might find other vintage slices of history at sub-£1,000 prices.
Researching this review, I did just that. A casual search for “Guild electrics for sale” brought up lots of current Newark St. models and the occasional semi from yesteryear. And then I found the model down from the S-100, the S-90, with twin full-size humbuckers on a ‘batwing’ scratch plate and two controls, instead of four. A round-trip to Suffolk later and I was the proud owner of my own slice of Guild history: a 1976 (according to Hans Moust’s The Guild Guitar Book) S-90 for around 20 per cent less that the advertised price of our reviewed S-100.
Like any 42-year-old it has some baggage. Aside from the wear, its nitro finish had a heavy layer of gunk (probably from various polishes and usual playing grime) that took a while to clean off but gradually the blue-y sheen was removed revealing a brighter, more translucent deep cherry. Although the pickups are original, someone has clearly fitted something different in its past – there’s an extra hole in the scratch plate between the two bass-side screws on both.
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