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| Anyone that's been around here for very long knows that one of my favorite weapons is the Guild X-79 "Skyhawk".
For the uninitiated... the X-79 "Skyhawk" was made by Guild from 1981 to 1985. 24-frets on ebony with a Gibson style "set neck" construction... now here's the good part... they weigh a mere 6 pounds yet give up nothing in the sustain dept to even my Queen Mary anchor rival Les Paul Custom. You can wield this thing all night long and still have plenty of lead left in your pencil for the groupies. 
Well... I bought another one... a 1984.
I first got a line on this one about a year ago... From Wrona's House of Violins in Lewiston, NY... kind of passed on it originally because it was damaged and priced rather high... then something happened tripping through eBay one day....
You guessed it... there it was up for auction... for about half what the asking price was when I'd asked about it a year ago.
I'd sent close-up photos of its "issue" to my repairman in NH and he said it looked like the repair was done well enough from what he could see from the photos but of course he'd rather see it up close.
At any rate, he didn't see any need to replace the entire neck. (which Guild said they would do for $400 if need be) Worst case might be a new fretboard.
If you look close you can see the crack from about the middle of the truss-rod cover leading down between the tuner and the nut.
What actually happened was that it obviously took a fall and the fretboard pulled up from the neck down to about the 4th fret. My tech has looked it over since I got it and verified the repair was done extremely well and sees no problems other than cosmetics at this point.
According to him it was likely just a bad day at the Guild factory. Obviously for the fretboard to pull off the neck cleanly means that top section of it was not glued down properly to begin with. The top corner was obviously attached well enough to pull up a chunk of the peghead... but nothing critical, and the repair in his words is excellent.
Since this one has a few more "battle scars" than my other one I'm not going to bother having it refinished. I just ordered a set of DiMarzio Super II pickups for it to replace the stock ones and will call it good to go. I'm going to have the custom white-to-blue fade finish on my other one redone and retire that one from the road.
Any idiot can publish anything on the Internet... and other idiots will believe it. - Dix
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| I always had a soft spot for Guild guitars.
"We are what we pretend to be" Kurt Vonnegut, jr. |
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| well now fine looking axe dude .plus that amp is sweet ,is that old head or remake?????? nice pics ...now let me pick my lip back off the floor....lol.........thanks for the looky.......................................big hell yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh............lp57
lespaul57
keep the music in your ear and the wind in your hair *****
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Supreme Being
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| If you're interested in the amp Chuck you'll have to contact Wrona's House of Violins in Lewiston, NY... that's where those pics were taken.
http://www.wronashouseofviolins.com/
You can e-mail Mike at: mikewrona@aol.com
For those wondering the top photo is my other X-79 with the custom finish that is being refinished & retired from the road to keep it in the shape that it's in.
Any idiot can publish anything on the Internet... and other idiots will believe it. - Dix
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