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1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 4:34 pm
by eltuce
Yes, the guitar gods were shining on me this week. I made some good sales and wound up winning the auction on that super cool Premier double neck. Long story short, I wound up buying this from the kinda fella instead. Ebony fretboard with amazing inlays. The likes of which I have never seen. The DeArmond pickups are super sweet too!


Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 6:19 pm
by Sarah93003
That is the coolest!
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:43 pm
by eltuce
I seriously love this guitar even more than I thought I would. I just played for over an hour while my little Gretsch amp was burning up. The neck pickup with a little tremolo, along with Duane Eddy, sounds dead on. HAHA, so who wants to buy my Starfire IV? Ahh, I love that one too as it's basically my ES335 but it's just not getting any play time these days and this one sounds sooooo much better!
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2010 12:21 am
by Sarah93003
I love the fretboard on this guitar. I just keep looking at it!
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:51 am
by wombat
Great! That looks like a guitar which I would like to hold and love.
What year was it made in?
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:56 am
by eltuce
1/19/63, I jumped on the Let's Talk Guild to see if I could find out a little more about it.
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:07 pm
by Sarah93003
It might have been a special order Starfire. Guild made a Merle Travis model that had star inlays similar to that.
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 1:36 pm
by eltuce
That's what I was thinking. The Guild guru is going to see if he can find it in the original ledgers of final assembly.
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:45 pm
by Sarah93003
eltuce wrote:That's what I was thinking. The Guild guru is going to see if he can find it in the original ledgers of final assembly.
Are you talking about Hans Moust?
Re: 1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays
Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2010 4:46 pm
by eltuce
Yep, but still no word.