The Starfire IV ST Maple puts a modern twist on a highly popular semi-hollow Guild classic. With its graceful double cutaway and thinline body, the original Starfire IV was prized by many guitarists from the mid-1960s onward for its incomparable tone and feel. Premium features include an all maple body, a solid spruce center block, ebony fingerboard, and Guild’s hallmark mahogany neck with maple center seam. This model features a Tune-O-Matic bridge, with a stopbar tailpiece for increased sustain and stability. The Starfire IV ST Maple includes dual LB-1 “Little Bucker” pickups, replicas of Guild’s original smaller size humbucking pickups. Available in Emerald Green, Natural Flamed Maple or Vintage Sunburst, and includes hardshell case.
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Guild Newark St. Guitars - are in fact made to be played! They're just awesome.
The Guild Newark St. series guitars are absolutely beautiful! This was the 3rd I've purchased.. I think most of us really like to play and listen to an instrument before buying it and purchasing it online unseen is a bit like getting a mail order bride. With these Guilds, chances are you'll stay married. Everyone one of the Newark St. series guitars I've purchased: an X-175B (unfortunately traded.. bad bad mistake), an Ice Tea Burst Bluesbird and the Emerald Green Starfire IV/ST; the quality, fit and finish was second to none. Especially notable are the necks and fretwork, which were particularly excellent on each guitar. The hardware is equally solid and the open back grover tuning machines stay in tune really well. On guitars with them, chances are you'll like the Little Bucker pickups too.. not quite as hot as Humbuckers, but definitely more than single coils.When the Starfire showed up, it was tuned about a 1/2 step down.. tuned it and played it acoustically.. stunning! Setup and intonation were spot on. When an electric guitar sounds this good with no amplifier, you know you may have something great. Plugged straight into my tweed Champ or Vibrolux, look out. It just sings. If you think you're getting a poor man's 335.. be glad that you're either on a budget or smart because at this price point I'll take this over the Gxxxxx guitar any day! I did have a 335 Memphis.. it was marginal and ended up trading it; unlike the X-175B, this was a good trade! With the Guild at substantially less than 1/2 price of the other.. why not give it a try?I'll warn you, if you watch any of the Guild demos done by RJ Ronquillo, you'll be buying a guitar.. check him out.Not sure who the person was who wrote the gibberish review driving numbers on the Guilds down.. don't pay attention, he was way off base.
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The guitar is very high quality and plays nice. Worth it.
The guitar is very high quality and plays nice. Worth it.
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as I had to modify this fine looking whatever to actually work on stage to the ...
These relics of a past millennia are not worth spit other than spin of no worth as I dealt with their short-comings for decades with no help from the mfg. as I had to modify this fine looking whatever to actually work on stage to the tune of hundreds of dollars plus down-time with borrowed instruments, got it Amerika???
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