Seems Guild did not bother to make a proper jig for these P-90s.
Notice the rough routes for the P-90 pickups in the picture below. See some pictures I took with my iPhone inside the large “F” holes.
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This Guild X500T is a full hollow body with no sound post. A carved top is more resonant and at higher volumes feedback is a big issue. The X-500T laminated spruce top actually helps with feedback as the top is stiffer. Since these are large guitars, their size contributes to a deeper sound. Being single coils the P-90s are a bit noisier with its 60 cycle hum and that is part of their appeal. Due to the pickups the X-500T is brighter and snarlier than the humbucker HB-1 version. The Guild X-500T is a more rockabilly version due to the two P-90 pickups and the Guildsby vibrato. Since my Jazz chops suck, these are out of my league. These are hand-crafted instruments aimed at jazz players with the highest end appointments. They have carved tops and are basically acoustic instruments with floated pickups and controls.
Guild’s highest-end jazz guitars are the Guilds Artist Award models. These guitars are step above the popular Guild X-175, X-170, X-160, as they feature binding on neck and around headstock, higher-end inlays and gold hardware. The Guild X-700 has a carved top which makes them pricey, but is similar to the X-500 with bound f-holes, ebony fretboards with the high-end abalone inlays. Guild X-500T has a laminated spruce top that is made from two pieces of Sitka spruce selected by plant manager at Westerly, Willie Fritscher. The Guild X-500T is based on the Guild X-500 and will be forever linked to the DE-500 Duane Eddy model which was made in limited numbers with a thinner body with a Bigsby. Two Seymour Duncan Antiquity Dog-Ear P-90 Pickups.
Weights 8-lbs 7-ozs.įeatures two volume, two tone controls, 3-way pickup selector and a master volume. Came with nice Guild hardshell case and is in excellent condition with original hang tags. The tuners are gold Grovers, the pickguard is the Guild-emblazoned stair-step design as used on Guilds of this era. Ebony fingerboard which features inlays made from genuine pearl blocks and abalone inserts. Spruce top, Figured Maple back and sides, 1 11/16th” nut width. This Guild X-500T was built (going by inside label) in the Westerly, Rhode Island factory. Even Gretsch does not have a stock guitar with two P-90s. The Guild X-500T and the Gibson ES-295 stand out in that regard.
The X-500T is a real Rockabilly masterpiece and a great cross section of two of my favorite guitars Gibson ES-295 and Gretsch 6120! There are not a lot of big hollow body guitars with P-90s around these days. I knew I would regret it if I missed this one. Showed up in my REVERB feed and I bought it instantly. Been on my wishlist for sometime, but you rarely see these come up for sale. The Guild X-500T is an upscale full 17″ hollow body with two P-90 pickups and a Guildsby (Bigsby). To play, it remains a fantastic low-action, high-speed guitar, all parts original, all parts working perfectly.Pretty hard to find rare guitar, especially in a blonde natural finish. This one has its fair share of fading & distinctive dents - relic'd through use rather than craftsmanship. It has its lovers, and it definitely looked the part in the late-70s/early 80s, but it just hasn't stood the test of time like the S-100 has. They also took the opportunity to further strengthen the differentiation with "GUILD"-stamped Grover-like tuners and dot inlays replacing the block inlays on the fretboard.Įven with its offset double-cut body style, unfavourable claims that the S-100 was too close to the Gibson SG led Guild in 1976 to introduce the S-300, a dramatically different body shape. The S-100 was reissued from 1994 to 1997, after which, as the full circle goes, Guild reintroduced the Polara name.ġ976 was the first year that the S-100 became available in white, along with the unbound neck, and clear pickguard. Guild produced the original S-100s from 1970 to 1978, as an evolution of the two single-coil pick-up Polara S-100 first introduced in 1963.
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