VoidTerraFirma
Live to wine
Don't like the gold. I love the grain though.
Guild Westerly R.I. USA X-170 Manhattan 1999 Natural
- Thread starter Mark Wein
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instantsteve
Glowing Cloud
Ohhhhh!!!
Ignored Member
Neutered male
I like it but I would let it go.
The gold never bothered me anyway.
The gold never bothered me anyway.
Dogsinplastic
avuncular to no one
Arguably my favorite for the style. I've always preferred Guild's hollow and semi-hollow guitars to Gibson from an aesthetic perspective. When I was going through a period of thinking I wanted to Steve Howe I wanted a Manhattan, but more like this one:
But I realized that I didn't need his guitar to cop his vibe and that I was interested in other stuff (and not wanting to cop any one players vibe...ideally create my own). The thing that was a guitar geek hold up for me, however, was the neck pup was mounted right at the end of the neck and Steve's ES-175 had it moved more towards the bridge. Being an aforementioned guitar geek, I was overly concerned about how the sound wouldn't be the same. Of course this was stupid on many levels, the primary one being that if I was that worried about copping his ES-175 tone why was I more focused on a Guild Manhattan X-175?
I would definitely love to give the X-170 a thorough spin though.
But I realized that I didn't need his guitar to cop his vibe and that I was interested in other stuff (and not wanting to cop any one players vibe...ideally create my own). The thing that was a guitar geek hold up for me, however, was the neck pup was mounted right at the end of the neck and Steve's ES-175 had it moved more towards the bridge. Being an aforementioned guitar geek, I was overly concerned about how the sound wouldn't be the same. Of course this was stupid on many levels, the primary one being that if I was that worried about copping his ES-175 tone why was I more focused on a Guild Manhattan X-175?
I would definitely love to give the X-170 a thorough spin though.
Psychotronic
Bored Silly
I'm sure it's great, it's just not for me.
