1972 Guild M-65 Freshman Hollowbody Electric Guitar

Smaller-bodied vin tage hollowbody electrics barely ever pop up around the shop and it's exciting when they're as good as this guy. It's super-lightweight, has a single, DynaSonic-ish-sounding single-coil neck pickup, 00-size body width, and fast, modern neck profile with a Gibson-style scale length.

Apparently, most of these are found in the 3/4 student scale length so it's nice to have a "full scale" model on hand instead. It's fully-hollow and the body is ply-flamed-maple throughout and has a flat back with only a 2" side depth. It fits, in a sense, light a "flyweight Les Paul," though the waist is wider and the lower-bout, too.

Controls are simple -- master volume and tone -- and the sound is maybe more familiar to rockabilly guitars like DynaSonic or HiLoTron Gretsches. You can certainly get a "jazz tone" out of it by rolling-around your EQ and stringing it with flats, though. It'll just be a retro, '50s "jazz tone" instead of the modern, no-treble take.

So -- there's a lot to like in this package and it looks pretty, too. Not too much to argue with!

For modern players, I will note that the bridge is compensated for a vintage wound-G setup. Folks who use flatwounds or "blues-rock" roundwounds with a wound G will have no issues. For folks wanting to string it with a plain G, I can make a 3-plain/3-wound compensated saddle to replace this one and stash this one in the case pocket. Just let me know!

Repairs included: a fret level/dress, mild adjustments, and setup. It plays spot-on fast and is ready to go.

Body wood: ply flamed maple

Bridge: rosewood adjustable (wound-G compensation)

Fretboard: rosewood

Neck wood: mahogany

Pickups: 1x single coil original

Action height at 12th fret: 1/16" overall (fast)
String gauges: 46w-10 with wound G

Neck shape: slim C

Board radius: 14"

Truss rod: adjustable

Neck relief: straight

Fret style: medium/narrow

Scale length: 24 3/4"

Nut width: 1 5/8"

Body width: 13 3/4"

Body depth: 2"

Weight: 4 lbs 7 oz

Condition notes: it's pretty clean and all-original except for a replacement truss rod cover. There's light handling/usewear throughout and weather checking (as normal) in the finish, but overall it's in great shape. Someone had Schaller-style tuners on it at some point but the original plates were put back on. There are extra tiny screwholes at the headstock's rear, though.

It comes with: a non-original old chip case.