Guild / Starfire III / 1966 / Sunburst / Guitar
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This guitar drove me crazy. The original owner, who ordered the guitar in 1965, did not want it in red - the way pretty much all of them came in '65. It was his first guitar, his heroes played Guild, so he wanted it in Sunburst just like their Artist Awards. Took him a year to get it. He was insanely happy with the guitar - the most beautiful thing he possessed - other than his wife - His words, not mine....The guitar had pride of place in his home - in the case, under the freakin' bed. when I first saw the guitar I could see it had really never been played. Considering how much he liked it, why didn't he play it? Too pretty, he said. Other than a coupla strums, he'd take it out of the case to admire it once in a while - that's it.He had beat up Guild classical that he banged around on once in a while, but, he says now - "Shit gets in the way..."
The guitar, with its special ordered Sunburst finish, is dead mint and plays and sounds fantastic. Comes with the original case and cool case candy. 3500.00
Chelsea Guitars, USA 
If you love old, classic guitars you owe it to yourself to check this place out. The place is tiny; basically what you see in the display window is most of what they got. Go inside and it's like dropping in to a friend's apartment, albeit a tiny apt. But it's cool; Dan and whoever else is there are just hanging out. If you need help, they're glad to do it but if you just want to hang, they'll give you space. They let me put a lot of time in with the guitar that I eventually bought and also let me play an incredibly expensive guitar just so I could see what it felt like.
But what I really like is that they're just regular, no BS kinda people who obviously love old guitars for their character. Some of what they've got is collector-level expensive but I bought an awesome Japanese tele copy at a really reasonable price. So whatever
We are also home of the Chelsea Hotelecaster - Telecasters made out of civil war era pine from the legendary Chelsea hotel NYC. Made by our resident luthier Dean Gordon.
More info at https://www.deangordonguitars.com/
chelseaguitars@gmail.com
Phone +1 (212) 675-4993
Address 220 W 23rd St, New York, NY, 10011-2301
chelseaguitars@gmail.com
Phone +1 (212) 675-4993
Address 220 W 23rd St, New York, NY, 10011-2301
5-10% restocking fees apply to our sales.
