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GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA

Guitarist september 2018

review

GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA

Guitarist september 2018

Known for their classic hollowbodies and semis, Guild’s recent introductions

have all been solidbodies. We track down the latest Jetstar and see

how it stands up to their most famous solid, the Polara

High Flyers

Words Dave Burrluck Photography Adam Gasson

GIT437.rev_guild.indd 88 09/08/2018 18:42

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review GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA High Flyers Known for their classic hollowbodies and semis, Guild’s recent introductions have all been solidbodies. We track down the latest Jetstar and see how it stands up to their most famous solid, the Polara Words Dave Burrluck Photography Adam Gasson 88 Guitarist september 2018 GIT437.rev_guild.
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GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA review september 2018 Guitarist GIT437.rev_guild.
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GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA review GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA £539 & £629 CONTACT Selectron UK Ltd PHONE 01795 419460 WEB www.guildguitars.com What we want to Know 1 2 3 What’s the story here? Guild’s latest solidbody release, the Jetstar, hones in on a simple solidbody design that first appeared in the 60s. It was the only single pickup model in a trio that included the Polara and more famous Thunderbird.
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Video Demo GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA http://bit.ly/guitaristextra review The rivals All roads point to Gibson’s SG – the 2018 SG Standard is streeting around £1,000 and comes in Autumn Shade, Ebony and Heritage Cherry and includes Gibson USA fitted hardcase. Epiphone’s G-400 Pro SG (approximate street price, £380) loads in Alnico Classic Pro humbuckers and coil splits – a great way to experience the SG flavour and a favorite for budding Derek Trucks slide wannabes.
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review GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA 4. These larger HB-1 humbuckers have an extra tilt screw on the bass side. Unlike the Alnico 5 magnets of the LB-1, these use Alnico 2 and, like the LB-1s, are made in Korea by BooHeung access to the top fret, not least with those off-set cutaways. Played seated, the Polara feels like its inspiration, the Gibson SG, in that the neck seems very long.
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Video Demo GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA http://bit.ly/guitaristextra A Copy… or Not? review 5 From the original designs of the Thunderbird, Polara and Jetstar in the 60s, the turnaround to the 70s solidbodies, like our S-100 here, was an obvious attempt to capture some of Gibson’s SG market. Gretsch had already been inspired by the bevel-edged SG with its 1963 Corvette, taken to out-there extremes with the 1966 Astro-Jet.
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review GUILD JETSTAR & S-100 POLARA 8 sound for some lovely quite single coil-like, snappy blues voices while the tones are a little more useful, certainly with the volume near or fully up. As ever the controls expand the voice considerably: a vintage-y clean ’bucker voice that might lack the heft of a thicker mahogany/maple-topped single-cut but which sits firmly in the classic rock genre.