1968 Guild CE100D Capri w/case
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Guild
1968 Guild CE100D Capri w/case
7lbs 1oz.
Good condition for it's age. Please see all pics. This piece has been played and loved, hard. Holds tune, plays wonderfully. Currently setup with flatwounds. Moderate fretwear but zero buzzing. As you can see, it shows it's age, but seems entirely structurally sound. Overlay on headstock is slightly raised on treble side. You can see the tuning keys have been changed. Includes hard case that's not original, and has seen better days.
The Guild CE-100 Capri was a fully hollow deep body electric acoustic guitar, perfect for jazz and blues. It was the first Guild guitar model to feature a Florentine or "Old World" cutaway. It was a successful model and remained in the Guild catalog continually between 1956 and 1984, although changing a little over the course of its production. Most of these changes were also evident in other Guild models; pickups changed throughout the decades (most notably to Guild humbuckers in 1963), the scale was lengthened for a few years in the 1970s, and the mahogany neck was switched to maple from 1976. There were actually two models, the single pickup CE-100 and dual pickup CE-100D; other than pickups and related controls, these guitars were identical.
Guild Capri Specifications
| Model | CE-100 | CE-100D The 'D' was dropped after the single pickup version was deleted. |
| Available | 1956-73 | 1959-1984 |
| Pickups | One single coil pickup: initially a Franz soapbar, then briefly a DeArmond, before changing to a Guild humbucker in 1963. | As the CE-100, but with two pickups. Additionally, new model Guild HB-1 pickups were fitted in the 1980s. |
| Body | Maple top, back and sides. Width 16 3/8", length 20 1/4", depth 2 7/8" | |
| Neck | Three-piece mahogany laminate, changing to three-piece maple in the late 1970s. Rosewood fingerboard with block pearl inlays, Chesterfield inlay. | |
| Scale | 24 3/4", although the 1975 and 1978 Guild catalogue state a scale length of 25 5/8" - changing back to 24 3/4" for the 1982 Guild catalog. | |
| Hardware | Harp tailpiece, rosewood bridge, Waverly, Grover StaTite or Japanese-made (no name) tuning keys. | |
| Finishes |
Sunburst, blonde, black (1956-58 only) |
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