Let's see your GUITAR!

[Zork]

Haha, yes, kind of... thank you, have never seen it that way but it's a nice way to look at it.

[dubkitty]

y’all aren’t going to believe this. my girlfriend has been hyping me for weeks about the great present she and her sister went in on for me. well, she wasn’t wrong. apparently when i brought her sister home from the hospital a couple of months ago she saw me looking at one of these on my phone.

it’s a reissue Guild S-200 Thunderbird, the truly wacky 60s solidbody best known from its use by Muddy Waters and Zal Yanovsky out of the Lovin’ Spoonful. crudely put, it’s Guild’s take on the Fender Jaguar, but the circuit is significantly different. yes, there’s two pickup switches and a tone cut/“strangle” switch, but if i’m understanding correctly there are two separate volume and tone knob sets, Mode A and Mode B, which are selectable. this seems much more useful at a glance than the Fender rhythm circuit. it’s in good shape, and apparently spent most of its life hanging on the wall. after Christmas i’ll get new strings, clean it up, and get to know it better.