Guild Starfire III (1970)
Guild Starfire III (2013 reissue)
Overview
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- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1961 to 1970
2013
GUILD produced the STARFIRE III between 1961 and 1970. It was essentially a Starfire I but with a Bigsby vibrato. These originally had single coil Guild pickups (some 1961-1962 models had DeArmond single coil pickups). By 1970 they had Guild humbuckers.
Guild reissued the Starfire III in 2013 as part of the Korean made Newark Street Collection
Specifications (25)
Body
| Body material | maple body |
| Body shape features | archtop, single cutaway |
| Hollow body | hollow body |
| Pickguard shape | raised pickguard |
| Soundhole | 2 f-holes |
Hardware
| Bridge | Guild Adjusto-Matic bridge |
| Hardware color | chrome hardware |
| Tailpiece | Bigsby Vibrato tailpiece, trapeze tailpiece |
| Tuners | Grover Sta-Tite |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard inlay material | pearl fingerboard inlay material |
| Fingerboard material | rosewood fingerboard |
| Fingerboard position markers | dot fingerboard position markers |
General
| Finish colors | ebony finish, green finish, honey finish, red finish |
| Made in | Korea, USA |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
| Scale length | 24.75 inches scale-length |
Neck
| Neck material | maple neck |
| Number of frets | 20 fret |
| Peghead (headstock) | bound headstock |
| Tuner layout | three-each-side |
Controls
| Pickup selector controls | 3-way selector switch |
| Tone controls | 2 tone controls |
| Volume controls | 2 volume controls |
Electronics
| Pickups brand and model | DeArmond pickup(s) |
| Pickups configuration | 2 humbucker pickups, 2 single coil pickups |
