Near-Mint 1964 Guild 'Slim-Jim' Complete With Original Hang-Tag

This all original 16 1/4 inch-wide, featherweight thinline guitar weighs just 5.70 lbs. and has a nut width of 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 24 3/4 inches and a wonderful medium-to-thick neck profile. Triple-bound (top edge only) two inch thick body with a one-piece laminated maple top and back and laminated maple sides, One-piece mahogany neck, and bound rosewood fretboard with 20 original medium-thin frets and inlaid pearl dot position markers. Headstock with Inlaid pearl "Guild" logo, pearl "Chesterfield" inlay and black metal truss rod cover with two screws. Waverly open-back strip tuners with cloverleaf shaped metal buttons. Serial number "34477" stamped in blind on back of headstock. Single Guild metal-cased single coil pickup (in the neck position) with an output of 5.53k. Original black lucite stairstep pickguard with gold silk-screened "Star" and "Guild". Two controls (one volume, one tone). Guild black plastic control knobs with ribbed sides and 'G'-logo on a silver disc. Rosewood bridge with pre-set compensating saddle on a height adjustable ebony base. Guild 'Lyre' tailpiece with 'G' cutout. Inside the bass 'f' hole is the original 'Guild Guitars Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey' white oval label with the model "T-100" and the serial number "34477" written in blue and also "Made in USA" stamped in black. All hardware nickel plated. There is very little wear to the original medium-thin frets. There is one very small surface finish 'chip' on the top edge and a few on the back and sides of the body. Otherwise this fifty-seven year old example is in near mint (9.25) condition. Complete with the original folding hang-tag with matching serial number, the original Guild polishing cloth and the original case-key.

"The T-100C was patterned after the CE-100 and it was the first Guild model with a 2-inch deep 'thinline' body. The T-100CD was the same instrument, but with double pickups, a pickup selector switch and individual volume and tone controls for each pickup" (Hans Moust, The Guild Guitar Book, p. 60).

"The foreunner of the Starfire, this model is often mistaken for the Starfire. The main differences are: the Starfire either had single-coil DeArmond or Guild humbucking pickups, and the Starfire was bound top and back and had Guild adjustomatic bridges" (Ted Beesley, Guild Guitar History, p.93).