1963 Guild Starfire III with super cool inlays

[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!

[Sarah93003]

That is the coolest!

[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!

[Sarah93003]

I love the fretboard on this guitar. I just keep looking at it!

[wombat]

Great! That looks like a guitar which I would like to hold and love.

What year was it made in?

[eltuce]

1/19/63, I jumped on the Let's Talk Guild to see if I could find out a little more about it.

[Sarah93003]

It might have been a special order Starfire. Guild made a Merle Travis model that had star inlays similar to that.

[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.

[Sarah93003]

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?

[eltuce]

Yep, but still no word.