Guild X-175 Model Arch Top Hollow Body Electric Guitar (1960), made in Hoboken, NJ, sunburst top, dark stained back and sides finish, laminated spruce top, laminated maple body and mahogany neck, black tolex hard shell case.
This Guild was obviously someone's gigging guitar for many years, and bears the marks of a lifetime's use. It is certainly a great sounding and playing instrument, at home both as a straight jazz guitar and in more vintage rock'n'roll styles. The X-175 is a fairly deluxe guitar, in the middle of Guild's 1950's line but both larger and fancier than Gibson's ES-175. The 17" body is triple bound and features a laminated spruce top, much like its Epiphone ancestors. Two white-plastic covered single coil pickups are mated to a Gibson-style wiring rig with individual tone and volume controls.
The rosewood fingerboard is bound with pearloid block inlays, while the old-style "open book" shaped headstock carries an inlaid Guild logo and vertical column. The tuners are the fancy covered Kolb units with pearloid buttons seen on more expensive Guilds. This is a fairly rare Guild instrument, built in the older style before the company had greatly expanded production to meet the 1960's guitar boom.
Overall length is 41 3/4 in. (106 cm.), 17 in. (43.2 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 in. (7.6 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 3/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 5/8 in. (41 mm.).
Heavily played; finish is original but fairly well-worn. All original hardware except repro wooden bridge and the pickguard is missing. Recently refretted; plays and sounds excellent. Very Good + Condition.
