A Guild Bass I've never seen before

[marc61]

Was this actually a production model?

http://newyork.craigslist.org/jsy/msg/2749072033.html

[sloop_john_b]

I have seen the guitar version of that but never the bass version. Cool!

[woodyng]

yes,i have seen these before,it looks like a gibson sg type body and has the auld world acorn carving. i have not played one,however. is this model all that different from the fretless guild that Chris Squire played? (i don't remember his having acorns.....)

[jingle_jangle]

Yep, Chris has acorns. BIG acorns...

[woodyng]

d'oh! (groans)

[jps]

That was, indeed, a production model, the earliest ones did not have the Lemmy stuff on it.

[woodyng]

you said "lemmy stuff", *snicker*....

[teb]

The first fretless I ever played was a fretless version of that model that was hanging in a store. A couple days later I dragged my EB0 over to my luthier and told him to tear off the fingerboard and install a fretless one.

[Happyface]

That is a later JS-II, with humbuckers. Some folks like those pickups, most of us Guilders prefer the earlier Bisonics or replacement Darkstars. Wonderful thin necks, great sound with flats. Hugely "articulate" but unforgiving.

[LONNIE4003]

I had one back in the late 70's but because of the wood saddles on the tail pease, it was a lil too dul sounding for me. i replaced it w/a leo quan bad arss bridge and used it for a good while. wish i'ld left it original and kept it. very nice and well made bass.