Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Telerocker on February 02, 2013, 04:17:07 PM
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Guild introduces Newark St. Collection. Manhattan looks smart.
http://www.guildguitars.com/instruments/?gtype=electrics&series=Newark+St.™+Collection (http://www.guildguitars.com/instruments/?gtype=electrics&series=Newark+St.™+Collection)
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^ yeah. the starfire 3 too.
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It's cool that they've been reissued, but not really my kind of thing, except maybe the S-100.
Where are these made? Not the USA, presumably?
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It's cool that they've been reissued, but not really my kind of thing, except maybe the S-100.
Where are these made? Not the USA, presumably?
'Handcrafted with care at SPG Korea'.
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Manhattan with bigsby is tasty, big fan of the Starfire bass too. Shame none of this collection is equipped with Dynasonics like some of the old Guilds. I own a 98 Dearmond Starfire Special with USA 2k pickups, Korean made, decent guitar for the price. I also own a 79 Guild S-60 and the single HB-1 humbucker is one of the best pickups i've came across.
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I actuallly like the low output pickups on the Manhattan. At least in the vids.
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I once tried a vintage 60's Dynasonic equipped Starfire ii into a Fender Twin Reverb, to this day it's the best guitar i ever heard. Shame that Bare Knuckle don't do a Dynasonic style pickup.
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I'm a big Guild fan, and it's good to see their designs being remade.
However, I would be interested how the price of these compares with an original Guild.
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I'm a big Guild fan, and it's good to see their designs being remade.
However, I would be interested how the price of these compares with an original Guild.
Manhattan 949 euro, case included.
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Thats too much in my opinion for a Korean made guitar. You could pick up one of the 90's USA re-issues for not too much more, or even a 90's Dearmond for about half of that and save the rest of your money for mods.
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That depends how good the guitar is made and how you value it. Compared to US Guilds it's a cheapo, but it's expensive compared to Gretsch Electromatics. It's in the pricerange of Peerless.
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As i said, for that price i'd rather buy a 90's Dearmond or Gretsch Electromatic(possibly made in the same factory?) and with the change, upgrade the tuners, install a Compton bridge and pickup wise, for humbuckers, it's Bare Knuckle or if you want Dynasonics i'd go for T.V.Jones T-Armonds.
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I'm a big Guild fan, and it's good to see their designs being remade.
However, I would be interested how the price of these compares with an original Guild.
+1
Am hoping they do the Bluesbirds again, love my guild. Want to try the sg shaped s-100
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Guild website states $1,599 for Bigsby equipped Starfire, i recently saw a 95 USA Starfire IV
in a London guitar shop for £1,295. i don't know the exact exchange rate but there's not a lot in it. i'm a massive Guild fan (both electric and acoustic) and i'm glad to see some of these models produced again but i don't think they represent good value for money.