Sunday, July 1, 2007

The 1956 Guild CE-100 ............ serial #3423






One owner guitar. Seldom played. Straight neck, low action. Plays very well. All electronics in good working order. Tuners not original.” With the exception of the tuners this guitar conforms to the typical specifications of the model for the period in which it was made, with single-cutaway body constructed of laminated maple, mahogany neck with maple center stripe on the back, rosewood fingerboard with white binding and pearloid block inlays, Guild peghead inlay and the stylized G logo inlay (the peghead inlay pattern was change to a “Chesterfield” center inlay in 1957), white binding on the top and back edges of the body, one singl- coil white plastic-covered pickup in the neck position, beveled-edge laminated black pickguard, one volume control, one tone call, harp-shaped G-logo tailpiece, and sunburst finish.
Current market value: $1200 (one thousand two hundred dollars).