FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

After Guild's electric guitar production was moved to Korea, the Starfire IV was reissued in 2013 as a '60s inspired model. Like Guild's other Korean-made electric guitars, the Starfire IV has many visual cues of its counterpart from the 1960s, but lacks vintage accurate details. This is a very early example made in 2012 before the model was officially introduced. It has a floating rosewood bridge and rosewood fingerboard while later models had a pinned ebony bridge and ebony fingerboard. In addition, the early cases were made by TKL in Canada while later ones were made by another company in China.

 Body:  Semi-hollow; laminated 1-piece sapele top, back, and sides; double bound top and back

 Finish:  Cherry Red,  polyurethane

 Neck:  3-piece mahogany/maple, set-in; black plastic headstock overlay with pearloid logo and Chesterfield inlay

 Fingerboard:  Indian rosewood, single bound; pearloid block markers

 Number of Frets:  22

 Pickguard:  Acrylic

 Bridge:  Tune-o-matic on rosewood base, Guild harp tailpiece

 Nut:  Bone

 Tuners:  Grover Sta-Tite, nickel

 Pickups:  Two, Guild LB-1 humbucking with adjustable pole pieces, nickel

 Controls:  Tone and volume controls for each pickup, 3-way pickup selector

 Scale Length:  24 3/4 inches

 Neck Width at Nut:  1 11/16 inches

 Body Width at Lower Bout:  16 3/8 inches

 Body Depth:  1 3/4 inches

 Weight:  7.7 lb