Guild Stratford X-375 B

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Body size at lower bout: 17″ Scale length: 24 3/4″ Nut width: 1 11/16″

Materials: Arched Spruce top, tiger flame maple body; solid flame maple neck; Brazilian rosewood fingerboard with block inlays; pearl peghead and fingerboard inlays; 5-ply body binding, bound fingerboard and f-holes, bone nut.

Notes: When Guild Guitars was founded in 1952, a number of former Epiphone employees joined founder Alfred Dronge in establishing the new company in Manhattan. Along with them, they brought some signature Epi designs, including this fretted marvel of the push-button era. Introduced just a year after the company’s birth, the Guild Stratford X-350 was modeled after the Epiphone Emperor Zephyr Regent, with its highly flamed Venetian cutaway body, triple pickup electronics, and remarkable six button pickup selector panel.

Originally labeled the X-375, the rare blonde version of the X-350 was renamed the X-350B in 1958, with the introduction of the highly flamed maple soundboard. This model has the short lived Hoboken ‘ghost’ label, seen only through this model year. The original style Franz single coil pickups were only used until 1962, and this scarce model was finally retired by 1965.

Highly figured maple, and has been kept in wonderful original condition, with all original electronics, metal and plastic parts.

The six button selector panel switches the three pickups in a variety of configurations, and is controlled by the master volume and tone knobs. The neck is a comfy gentle C profile, and the action is smooth and low, as befits a rockabilly machine of such extravagant design. At just 7lb 3oz. the instrument is remarkably well balanced, on the lap or the strap. The frets have been  leveled, crowned and polished

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