Rare Blonde X-50!

This medium-depth archtop guitar weighs only 5.60 lbs. and has a nice, comfortable neck width of just over 1 5/8 inches and a scale length of 24 3/4 inches. Laminated maple body, three-piece mahogany neck with a medium to thick profile, rosewood fretboard with 20 thin frets and pearl dot position markers. "Lip top" headstock with a black finish over a veneer of maple with "Guild" logo stenciled in gold. Waverly open-back strip tuners with oval metal buttons. One single-coil P-90 style pickup with white plastic cover and an output of 6.29k. Transparent acrylic (or Lucite) rounded pickguard painted black from the back. Two controls (one volume, one tone). Guild transparent plastic knobs with silver discs. Rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle and Waverly trapeze tailpiece. Apart from the lightest amount of finish checking, this rare Blonde X-50 is in near mint and totally original condition. With the rare "ghost" label inside the guitar. Housed in an early 1960s black hardshell case (8.50).

Introduced in 1954 and renamed the Cordoba X-50 in 1961, the entry-level Granada X-50 is somewhat similar, but one inch thinner, than the Gibson ES-125. The X-50 was the only non-cutaway model listed in the 1954 catalog. At the time it was also the only model, apart from the much smaller Aristocrat M-75, that didn't have a 17-inch-wide body. In 1959, the X-50 listed at $159.50, while the X-50Bl listed at $169.50 (Hans Moust, The Guild Guitar Book, p. 58 and p. 176).

The "ghost" label is a black and white rectangular label showing a ghost-type figure playing the guitar against a fretboard-like background. Introduced in 1959 and used until the end of 1960, it was the second type of label used by the Guild Company.