Guild Surfliner
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2023
- I tried to remember any new guitar I've owned that was this bad. All the way back to my youth,,,, The answer is???? NONE! The Humbucker (Guild LB-1) has a weird bell like chime quality with Reverb/echo added as an after effect. BUT.... I think these are the same PUPS I have in my Guild Starfire 3, which sound great. Do I just have a bad one here?
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Great to see you Great van❗ I always get excited when i see you come on with another show and tell❗ Cant wait for the next one❗ I hope all is well❗God bless you❗❗❗ I give this video three thumbs up👍👍👍
More to come for sure! It's good to see you as well. I so appreciate you stopping by for a visit!
Good to see you back @greatvanzini and in good form too. Love the humour mixed into the review. Hope you are well. 👍🎸🤘🏻
Good to see you, Simon. Thanks for dropping by. You can see Simon, Andrew & others at www.youtube.com/@5150show/streams
Upcoming shows soon.
Good to see you GVZ!
arvongaunt, Good to see you too. Hope all is well.
I was wondering about these and hadn't tried one yet. Thanks for sharing!!
Hi, Ben, Thanks for visiting. I'm guessing the samples are highly varied.
Hey GVZ... Great to see a new vid from you! One minute old and way too late! Don't wait so long... that thing is my youngest's favorite color... at least it has that going for it.
Hey Blu! The color is about it. Thanks for dropping by!
Nice to see Oh Great One. Sounding good!
Good to see you, Fez. Thanks for stopping by!
Good to se that you can get straight to the point here GV!! 😄 What a disappointment. I also have had very few experiences with truly bad guitars, they always seem to have their own characters, and redeem themselves at some point. I guess, in terms of percentages, we're still both way ahead in the good guitar Vs. bad guitar stakes! 👍 Hope you are keeping well and still rocking.
Hey, Ian. Good to see you! Hope you are well too. I do think (& hope) that some redemption is coming. If I can just get it to be playable, It will still be a fun one. We are ahead.
fantastic mate , good to see you too
Andrew! Good to see you also! I made a note to catch your last live stream & then got lost somehow.
Good to see you back greatvanzini!
What a pitty you got such a lemon. The design of the guitar in general looks interesting.
Cheers,
Martin
Martin, good to see you too. I bet I could get another one & it might play great. Now that Yamaha has taken over I have Hope!
Great to see you GV! Thanks for the info, I was getting tempted as I always like Guild, but if it sucks then I don't need it! Rock on!👍
Francis. so good to see you! I bet I could get another one & it might play great. Now that Yamaha has taken over I have Hope!
@@greatvanzini Yamaha always make fine instruments, can't wait to see what they do with the brand. Rock on GV!
Sounds fantastic! Pretty guitar too.
Hey, thanks, Tim! Appreciate the visit. HEY FOLKS! You want hear one of my fave singer songwriter, recording musician, well the list goes on & on,,,, go to www.youtube.com/@TexasJackdaw/videos
Been too long brother 👍✌😎 looking for a productive Winter season 😉
Have to catch up soon 🤟
Mark, good to see you too, bud. I am so close to being done on that other thing, wink, wink, nod, nod. You know,,,,,
I've been thinking about the Guild Surfliner Deluxe but not so sure anymore.
Steve, Long time. I bet I could get another one & it might play great. Now that Yamaha has taken over I have Hope! Keep Hope Alive. LOL.
Hello nice review good to see you, hip hip!!!
Charlie, good to see you. Enjoyed your live stream & thanks for the shout out.
@@greatvanzini thank you hope your doing well hip hip!!!
The Guild Starfire 3 has a scale length og 24.75. That puts that same pickup in a better suited location. That pickup was designed for that. With a 25.5 scale length it wouldn't surprise me if it comes off a bit bright. More Like a telicaster.
Oh, I hadn't thought of that. Makes sense. I figured maybe because my Starfire's were semi hollow. Love the sound of them on those. Appreciate you dropping by, Greg.
Hey GV , good to see you buddy! That's a shame as it definitely had potential.
Hi, Hugh! I think parts string height is fixable. Thanks for dropping by. See you in the chats & whatnot!
It looks really cool tho ...
Hi, Epi, Thanks for the visit. I do like the color.
greatvanzini! Good to see you brother 🤘
I spit my drink out and lauged my ass off when you came right out and said it sucked😂
Yipes! YT is dropping comments! LOL. Sorry if I made a mess! LOL.
I just ordered the HH for under $300 brand new.
It gives me penny stock vibes.
It hasn't arrived yet , but i do anticipate major disappointment same as you experienced.
We shall see.
Greg! I have heard others say they got great ones. So maybe I got a lemon & yours will be fine.
This might be the most honest review I’ve seen in UA-cam. How do you feel about the guitar? “It pretty much sucks” lol! Enjoyed watching
Hey, Paul, Long time. Yeah I felt I had to hit this one pretty hard. Keep hittin those strings, Bud! What did I see on your channel, A Kiesel? Your Daughter stole the show!
Thx Buddy
You betcha! Thanks for stopping by, Charles.
I'm of the opinion that one of the main reasons for buying from Sweetwater is the customer support. In my experience the 55 point inspection is more marketing than quality control. That said they'd certainly take a guitar with these problems back, for a refund or replacement.
I'm sure they would. I have had great luck with them going way back. Only just recently have I had issues. See My Albert Lee Sterling vid. I haven't started working on it yet but I think this is fixable. I hope. Thanks for the visit, Teebne.
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Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate it.
I beg to differ. I for one like this guitar, I find the pickups are very well voiced. My personal gripe is that many of them seem to have imperfections like blemishes or dents. Tuning stability is an issue wiith mine as well. What's great about the guitar is that with its pickups, you can play anything from blues to heavy metal and it'll sound "right". I don't mind the rocker switches, Iike the idea of something different.
Hey, Oleg! Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate it! I think we agree at least a little. The quirkiness of it is what attracted me. I have this on my list to fix. I found the PUPs odd. The bridge bucker is the same as what I have on my starfire 3 & I love that thing. For some reason here, I found it lacking. I can only put that in the category of, "What Da!?!" The rocker switches I fully knew going into the deal, so that's on me. It just kind of knocked me back a bit once I got it. It seemed so cumbersome. & wow, the set up was so bad.
I'm very impressed by its suckiness.
It has quite a lot for one guitar. LOL. My higher end Guilds are so nice, so I was really disappointed in this. Thanks for stopping by, Gene.
It's not sucky at all.
It’s never enough of that .. full step off tune in a day… .. “shame on guild” 😮.. honest review 😉
Hey, Todd. Good to see you. I'm not done with the little beast yet, LOL. Hey just watched your One Fine Day with Michelle at ua-cam.com/video/zyxPzGV2IrA/v-deo.html
What a nice masterpiece that is.
So...why did you buy it?
It looks pretty though. I would just hang something like that on my wall.
Hey, Harley. Thanks for dropping by, I ordered it via Sweetwater. SW has always made sure things are spot on until just recently. I think the last 3 or so I could have bought anywhere & had the same results. It is on my to do list to fix it up if possible. I guess that's the deal right there. Never had to work on anything from SW until just recently. LOL. It indeed, may become a wall hanger. It does look pretty.
@@greatvanzini Well that tells me a lot about buying a guitar through them. Thanks for the heads up on that account.
I would have been put off on that guitar just because of the three rocker switches and their location. It makes for awkward pickup switching. The body color reminds me of my '64 seafoam green guitar. Cameras have a hard time picking up that color. To most people they call it blue.
Anyway, there aren't that many new guitars that interest me. Last November, I bought an '83 Elite Stratocaster, and that is the best guitar purchase I made in the last decade. I have it setup the way I used to have them back in the 80s. They were the only guitars I ever had sellers' remorse over. They play like butter, and sound great, especially through a good amp!
Maybe that's something you might think about. Getting something that you used to have that you really liked, and just go wild with it. It's a very gratifying experience.
@@harleyhexxe9806 They've (SW) been so good for so long. So I am surprised & disappointed. It is sort of gimmicky with the switches but I knew that going in. I have a ton of Guild higher end hollowbody guits made in Korea that are phenomenal. If this represents their Made in Indo guits, well, it's just sad. BUT,,,, Yamaha did just acquire them so I have hope. I have a MIM seafoam strat. One of my faves. This has a pinch of sage color. As you can see I am an old guy so have tons of remorse for selling things. Kind starts with my older bro's 62 strat. Bought it for 125 & sold it for 150. BAMMM! 25 bucks just like that (snaps fingers!)
@@greatvanzini I'm entirely on the wrong side of 60, so I know where you're coming from.
Korean craftsmanship is pretty good if you give them quality parts to work with. I have three MIK Fender Showmaster guitars which are really well made, but the hardware and electronics are el cheapo Asian junk. With good hardware and electronics, I have three gigging guitars that will hold up to anything I throw at them.
Indonesia...well, now you know why they are so cheap.
Just think if you had your older brother's guitar now. You'd get a LOT more than that! LOL
RightOn GV.
Hey Hippie! Enjoyed you hangout/live stream last night.
Im going to assume you are what, 60, 65 years old? Likely came of age in the 1970s.
$400 in 1970 had they buying power of about $3,500 today. Imagine that! Man. $400 in today money, however, is about 50 bucks back then.
Meaning when you were a teenager, would the Guild Surfliner been worth $50 new to you?
Yes, I reckon so, too.
Personally, I wish theyd just skip the whole stupid surf rock gimmick. I cant stand that cheeseball crap. The Fender Jaguar became a surf rock favorite because it was good, and cheap, because guitar players had bunk taste in the day, but anyway, it wasn't marketed as the "Fender Surfer Guy Guitar," because that would have been stupid. Guild should have just called it something else, and put it in some different finishes other than ugly ass, see through green.
That said, $400 for a real, wood guitar? It cannot be beat. It simply cannot be beat. Guild is trying to entice young people to play the guitar. Shame on them?!? No, praise to them for having the balls to do something different, and to try to excite young, broke, would-be guitar players.
Hey, James. Thanks for dropping by. & thanks for suggesting I look younger than I am. It's been a while! 60's! You make some good points. Back in my day, even the crummy ones sold for more than 50, though. As a kid I almost gave up playing early on due to guitars like this. I also had students (back in the day) quit who had better playing guitars. I was lucky, in that I had 2 older brothers that played in a band & encouraged me on. They were also nice enough to let me play their far better (but still cheap) instruments from time to time. Their far better guitars cost them about $ 125.00 used but were still lower end. It allowed me to have a sense of what the future could be. So, to answer your question. When I was a teenager, would the Guild Surfliner have been worth $50 new to me? NO! I would have walked away (& fast) & saved a little more money. In fact I did walk away on many guitars back then. It's not that you can't get a decent player in this price range. I bet some of the Squier's are far better than this or so I hear. These are now 499 at Sweetwater. I have a couple of Sterlings. I have seen a number of videos about how bad they are. Each one came with something wrong from the factory & I got a discount, except one. & the wrong stuff was either fixable or just didn't alter the playability. That said, they all played & sounded way better then this guild & not by a little. Praise to others (Sterling included) but not to Guild. & by the way, if you've seen any of my other vids you know what a big fan of Guild I am. I encourage you to watch part of the video again. Pause it when the guitar body is fully on the screen. Stare at the green. Become one with,,,, BE the green. As someone in the comments said, it's the only thing this guitar has going for it.