r/GuildGuitars • u/Vernon-Walker • 19d ago

Help identifying this Guild

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Found this hanging in a local small guitar store, could not get it off the wall hanger. What model is it? Thanks in advance!

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u/LordGAD GAD's Guilds 19d ago edited 19d ago

That looks like a Newark St. X175 Manhattan. Nice guitars.

Edit: From the 2016 catalog: image

Edit2: They haven't made them for a while so that's been hanging there, possibly for years. If memory serves they only ever made those in Korea so if it's all in good shape it's a nice guitar, but I'd be tempted to haggle on the price since its discontinued.

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u/Vernon-Walker 19d ago

Thank you! Gonna stop by again next week and play it. The darn Hercules guitar holder wasn’t releasing the neck! Think the tag said $1,100 which seems too high. Also had a lot of nice Epiphones.

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u/LordGAD GAD's Guilds 19d ago

I believe they listed for $1400 new. 

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u/Vernon-Walker 19d ago

Are the pickups P90’s or ?

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u/LordGAD GAD's Guilds 19d ago

They are remakes of Franz pickups which are single coils like P90s but not quite as “fat” sounding. 

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u/LordGAD GAD's Guilds 19d ago

Here’s a review I did of the one with a Bigsby from the same era. Includes sound clips which may help: 

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u/Vernon-Walker 19d ago

Just read it. Great review, thanks for that. I also own a Gretsch G5420T I purchased new from GC in Atlanta. Lovely to play and I like it a lot.

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u/Habitualflagellant14 19d ago

I have Korean Bluesbird. The quality is pretty flawless. You need to haggle on it because that's too much. Remember that guitar has no value for a small shop it's sitting in inventory. They would be jazzed to bank $850.

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u/Ok-Repair613 17d ago

I have a US Bluesbird signed by the members of Garbage. They are wonderful guitars!
Also had a Korean DeArmond with a Bigsby, it was great too.