Guild Guitars Starfire IV ST Semi-Hollow Body Electric Guitar, in Emerald Green, Double-Cut w/stop tail, Newark St. Collection, with Hardshell Case

The Guild Newark St. series guitars are absolutely beautiful! This was the 3rd I've purchased.. I think most of us really like to play and listen to an instrument before buying it and purchasing it online unseen is a bit like getting a mail order bride. With these Guilds, chances are you'll stay married. Everyone one of the Newark St. series guitars I've purchased: an X-175B (unfortunately traded.. bad bad mistake), an Ice Tea Burst Bluesbird and the Emerald Green Starfire IV/ST; the quality, fit and finish was second to none. Especially notable are the necks and fretwork, which were particularly excellent on each guitar. The hardware is equally solid and the open back grover tuning machines stay in tune really well. On guitars with them, chances are you'll like the Little Bucker pickups too.. not quite as hot as Humbuckers, but definitely more than single coils.When the Starfire showed up, it was tuned about a 1/2 step down.. tuned it and played it acoustically.. stunning! Setup and intonation were spot on. When an electric guitar sounds this good with no amplifier, you know you may have something great. Plugged straight into my tweed Champ or Vibrolux, look out. It just sings. If you think you're getting a poor man's 335.. be glad that you're either on a budget or smart because at this price point I'll take this over the Gxxxxx guitar any day! I did have a 335 Memphis.. it was marginal and ended up trading it; unlike the X-175B, this was a good trade! With the Guild at substantially less than 1/2 price of the other.. why not give it a try?I'll warn you, if you watch any of the Guild demos done by RJ Ronquillo, you'll be buying a guitar.. check him out.Not sure who the person was who wrote the gibberish review driving numbers on the Guilds down.. don't pay attention, he was way off base.

The guitar is very high quality and plays nice. Worth it.

These relics of a past millennia are not worth spit other than spin of no worth as I dealt with their short-comings for decades with no help from the mfg. as I had to modify this fine looking whatever to actually work on stage to the tune of hundreds of dollars plus down-time with borrowed instruments, got it Amerika???