Guild 301 / 302A Bass

[reluctant-builder]

It would be pretty sweet if Warmoth offered a Guild 301 / 302A bass body shape and headstock option.

http://www.gbase.com/gear/guild-302a-left-handed-1979-natural

I chose the left-handed one as the example because I'm left-handed...

 

[Nando Vallart]

LORD NO!!!!  :icon_jokercolor:

Seriously: this isn't a design for everybody. I belive just few guys would like this design... It's easier to get this one getting the shape drawed with measures, through CorelDraw and send them to build it... I don't remember the price of having it cut by hand, but they usually do it, so better get in touch with them, I would not expect to have it done, they have a large "want" list and, knowing how they work, it has little chance to be one of the designs avaiable...

 

[reluctant-builder]

Haha! That's an emphatic denial if ever there was one.

 

[Nando Vallart]

Haha! That's an emphatic denial if ever there was one.

Sorry if it was too harsh in any way, I was justing trying to say that, from the time I've been here, I've seen much more "palpable" designs being said it wouldn't fit the company "line-production" politics...

 

[stubhead]

Those were seriously great basses, but Fender won the popularity contest so early and so emphatically that the only basses that were able to edge into the market back then were the non-Fender-sounding, even ANTI-Fender-sounding ones: Rickenbacker and Alembic. For the obvious reasons, Warmoth HAS to be run as a popularity contest, otherwise they cease to exist.... their fancy-topped Strats and Teles were following a trend, and their diverser* basses like the "G" series and the Geckos followed the fancy-pants custom bass market. If my memory serves, all those Thunderbird and "SG" Gibson basses were sales disasters when they first came out, and they only started coming back in the second go-round.... so unless Guild 301's either start showing up all over TV, or you make them an offer for a few hundred, the wait may be a while. I wish I still had my old one.


*(this is most likely, not a real word)

 

[reluctant-builder]

Sorry if it was too harsh in any way...

Not too harsh at all. I did see the thread about "forum behavior" but, fear not, I'm not offended!

I just had a spontaneous fit of "ooh, cool" ... I'm fine with people voicing their opinions, contrary or not.

 

[drewfx]

LORD NO!!!!  :icon_jokercolor:

Careful what you say.

Someone here might just own one.  :icon_biggrin:

 

[Nando Vallart]

LORD NO!!!!  :icon_jokercolor:

Careful what you say.

Someone here might just own one.  :icon_biggrin:

LORD NO!!!!!!!

 

[reluctant-builder]

Someone here might just own one.  :icon_biggrin:

Jealous.

 

[AprioriMark]

I have owned one, but it needed a refret and a I got a good price from a guy who wanted it.  I still own the guitar version, a 300-AD.  It's awesome.

-Mark

 

[elfro89]

Haha! That's an emphatic denial if ever there was one.

Sorry if it was too harsh in any way, I was justing trying to say that, from the time I've been here, I've seen much more "palpable" designs being said it wouldn't fit the company "line-production" politics...

Fernando, do you remember that guitar someone posted ages ago, with it you could just assembled it from parts and build it in a variety of ways to make it look completely outrageous? I really want to get one!

 

[AutoBat]

i think i'm running out of eye bleach!

 

[Nando Vallart]

Haha! That's an emphatic denial if ever there was one.

Sorry if it was too harsh in any way, I was justing trying to say that, from the time I've been here, I've seen much more "palpable" designs being said it wouldn't fit the company "line-production" politics...

Fernando, do you remember that guitar someone posted ages ago, with it you could just assembled it from parts and build it in a variety of ways to make it look completely outrageous? I really want to get one!

No I don't remember. But I can understand you wanting something different. But I cannot understand someone wanting to a factory who has line-production mind building weird designs in line :laughing7: I believe that is why luthiers are made for

 

[elfro89]

yeah, it was also fretless and a fretless guitar sounds like a lot of fun!  :toothy10: