1966 Guild Starfire III Hollowbody Electric Guitar
Overview: Starfires are comfy guitars with a sound all their own. These narrower humbucker pickups are bright and chimey but with just the right amount of kick to separate them from "true" minibuckers or Gretsch-style pickups. The handling is fast and the necks on these are more reminiscent of early-'60s Gibsons than they are of the Guilds produced from 1970-onwards that more folks are familiar with. They gave a decently-tight radius to the board and a C-shaped, quick-feeling rear profile. This one has been owned by the same fella for a long time and it's been kept safe and tidy compared to most of these!
Repairs included: Max gave this a level/dress of the frets and some setup work. I wound-up modding the aluminum saddle to give it some more height adjustment and tuning stability. It's playing spot-on and ready to go!
- Weight: 6 lbs 8 oz
- Scale length: 24 3/4"
- Nut width: 1 11/16"
- Neck shape: medium C
- Board radius: 10"
- Depth at first fret: 29/32"
- Depth at seventh fret: 29/32"
- Body width: 16 1/8"
- Body depth: 1 3/4"
- Body wood: ply mahogany
- Bridge: original Bigsby/compensated for wound G
- Fretboard: rosewood
- Neck wood: mahogany
- Pickups: 2x humbucker
- Action height at 12th fret: 1/16” overall (fast, spot-on)
- String gauges: 50w-11 with wound G
- Truss rod: adjustable
- Neck relief: straight
- Fret style: medium/low
Condition notes: It's all-original as far as I can tell. The saddle is modified a little bit and the back-angle coming from the Bigsby tail over the bridge isn't very steep, but that's usual on these old guys with the non-tension-bar Bigsby units. There's weather-check to the finish and mild wear and tear throughout the body. The celluloid binding has shrunken a bit in the cutaway of the body and there's a gap between it and the body that's not obvious at first. I can remove the binding and reglue it with a small gap at the ends of the binding if that suits -- let me know! The frets at the extension are lower than the rest of them (due to the leveling process removing a bit of "ski jump" in that area).
It comes with: It has an old hard case -- non-original, but in good order.
Consignor tag: JWAR
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