Guild M-65 SB Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1967)
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Guild M-65 SB Model Thinline Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1967), made in Hoboken, NJ, serial # ED-220, sunburst top, dark back and sides finish, laminated mahogany back and sides; laminated maple top; mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black chipboard case.
The Guild M-65 is a relatively obscure but great playing little guitar, with a small fully hollow f-hole body configuration fairly unusual in the 1960's. This example has the rarer full 24 3/4" scale neck; many M-65's found today are the 3/4 model with a short-scale fingerboard. Despite its diminutive body, the guitar is surprisingly full sounding, incredibly light, and very comfortable to handle. The single-coil pickup is fairly bright sounding, making for a less dark-toned instrument than many fully hollow body instruments.
This sunburst top example was made in early/mid1967, not long before Guild began the move from their Hoboken factory to Rhode Island. It sports typical period features including the small "Mickey Mouse" single-coil pickup in a metal frame, Guild harp tailpiece, height-adjustable rosewood bridge with metal feet and Japanese-made strip tuners. This one has one quirk: a "Starfire" marked truss rod cover, which we have seen on other "non-Starfire" Guilds from this period when parts substitutions were quite common. The full-scale M-65 is one of Guild's cool but often under-appreciated designs, a super light and handy electric guitar and a neat piece of vintage Guild coolness.
Overall length is 39 9/16 in. (100.5 cm.), 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
This is just a super clean and 100% original guitar, which looks to have hardly been played at all. It shows just very light handling marks, and plays and sounds just as it should. This M-65 still resides in its original heavy-duty chipboard case which has just a wee a bit more wear than the guitar but is still completely solid and functional. This is a great vintage Guild package right out of the time machine! Excellent + Condition.
The Guild M-65 is a relatively obscure but great playing little guitar, with a small fully hollow f-hole body configuration fairly unusual in the 1960's. This example has the rarer full 24 3/4" scale neck; many M-65's found today are the 3/4 model with a short-scale fingerboard. Despite its diminutive body, the guitar is surprisingly full sounding, incredibly light, and very comfortable to handle. The single-coil pickup is fairly bright sounding, making for a less dark-toned instrument than many fully hollow body instruments.
This sunburst top example was made in early/mid1967, not long before Guild began the move from their Hoboken factory to Rhode Island. It sports typical period features including the small "Mickey Mouse" single-coil pickup in a metal frame, Guild harp tailpiece, height-adjustable rosewood bridge with metal feet and Japanese-made strip tuners. This one has one quirk: a "Starfire" marked truss rod cover, which we have seen on other "non-Starfire" Guilds from this period when parts substitutions were quite common. The full-scale M-65 is one of Guild's cool but often under-appreciated designs, a super light and handy electric guitar and a neat piece of vintage Guild coolness.
Overall length is 39 9/16 in. (100.5 cm.), 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 2 1/16 in. (5.2 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.).
This is just a super clean and 100% original guitar, which looks to have hardly been played at all. It shows just very light handling marks, and plays and sounds just as it should. This M-65 still resides in its original heavy-duty chipboard case which has just a wee a bit more wear than the guitar but is still completely solid and functional. This is a great vintage Guild package right out of the time machine! Excellent + Condition.