Guild Stuart X500 (2013)
Overview
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Product:
- electric guitars
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Dates of manufacture:
1953 to 1995
2008
GUILD made the X-500 between 1953 and 1995. It is a hollow bodied electric - similar in design to the Epiphone Zephyr Deluxe Regent. This popular laminated archtop was one of Guild’s Stuart series guitars but was replaced by the carved top X700 in 1993. The X-550 was the blonde version of the X-500 and the X-550 designation was changed to X-500B around 1960.
Pickups were changed to DeArmonds in 1961 and to humbuckers in 1963. The X-500 first had individual Kluson tuners, then Kolb in 1957 and Grover Rotomatic tuners in 1965.
The X-500 was reintroduced in 2008, as the thinline X-500 Paladin model and later as the Stuart X-500 model.
Specifications (28)
Body
| Body back material | maple body back |
| Body shape features | archtop, single cutaway |
| Body sides material | maple body sides |
| Body style | archtop |
| Body top material | laminated spruce body top |
| Hollow body | hollow body |
| Pickguard material | tortoiseshell pickguard |
| Soundhole | 2 f-holes |
Hardware
| Bridge | adjustable ebony bridge |
| Hardware color | gold hardware, gold-plated hardware |
| Tailpiece | trapeze tailpiece |
| Tuners | Grover Imperial tuners, Grover Rotomatic tuners, Kluson tuners, Kolb tuners |
Fretboard
| Fingerboard inlay material | abalone fingerboard inlay material, mother of pearl fingerboard inlay material |
| Fingerboard material | ebony fingerboard |
| Fingerboard position markers | block fingerboard position markers |
General
| Finish colors | blonde finish |
| Finish effects | sunburst finish |
| Made in | USA |
| Number of strings | 6 strings |
| Scale length | 25.5 inches scale-length |
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 |
Prices (2)
| Date | Price | Condition | Name | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | $1600 | excellent | ||
| 2012 | $1700 | excellent | absolutely prestine immaculate condition . no dings, marks blemeshies etc. no scratches serial coooo84 |
