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sorted: Jazz archtop 15" or 16"

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spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
edited December 2022 in Guitars £
Hi, 
I am looking to buy a jazz archtop guitar. Looking for something smaller than 17 inches (at the lower bout), ideally 15 or 16 inches, but can consider up to 16.5 (that's really my limit).
1 11/16 nut width is a requirement.
Open to high quality guild and ibanez, hofner, gibson, d'aquisto, anything else.

Budget is £2000 but can stretch up to £2500.

Please show me what you have!

I am located in North London
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  • carloscarlos Frets: 3592
    On this very first page - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/238685/peerless-maestro-carved-top-back-jazz-archtop-kent-armstrong-h-b-sultry-black-2250
    My feedback thread - https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/107730/carlos
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    carlos said:
    Thanks! But I forgot to mention I am not a fan of the 1 3/4 nut width. I am looking for a standard 1 11/16.
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  • Jazzy_JakeJazzy_Jake Frets: 140
    I've got a Guild Neward Street X-175 for sale for 850. The lower bout is 17" but because it is a relatively slim width it feels very conmfortable. I don't notice much difference between that and my USA Guild X-150.

    For that price you could also get another Far East archtop and have enough left to buy a Tubescreamer haha.
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    Jazzy_Jake said:
    I've got a Guild Neward Street X-175 for sale for 850. The lower bout is 17" but because it is a relatively slim width it feels very conmfortable. I don't notice much difference between that and my USA Guild X-150.

    For that price you could also get another Far East archtop and have enough left to buy a Tubescreamer haha.
    Why don't you sell me the X-150 instead ?  ;)
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  • Jazzy_JakeJazzy_Jake Frets: 140
    Haha, that guitar gets buried with me. In 30 years of playing I have never bonded so well with an instrument.

    Honestly though, for 850 you get a lot with the NS X-175. Sound wise it's close to the X-150 but it has jumbo frets which I don't like.
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  • Jazzy_JakeJazzy_Jake Frets: 140
    Actually, if you like the X-150, there is an X-180 for sale on Ebay by Norms Old Hat guitar shop for 2K. The X-180 was just a tarted up X-150 with cooler binding and the gold engraved tailpiece that usually only goes on the high end Guilds.

    I spoke to Norm on the phone about this very guitar, and he said it was from his private collection, in mint condition.

    It's a small 16" lower bout (smaller than my Westerly X-150), two humbuckers, sounds like it could be a good choice for you!
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    edited December 2022
    Actually, if you like the X-150, there is an X-180 for sale on Ebay by Norms Old Hat guitar shop for 2K. The X-180 was just a tarted up X-150 with cooler binding and the gold engraved tailpiece that usually only goes on the high end Guilds.

    I spoke to Norm on the phone about this very guitar, and he said it was from his private collection, in mint condition.

    It's a small 16" lower bout (smaller than my Westerly X-150), two humbuckers, sounds like it could be a good choice for you!
    I had seen that and I contacted the seller a couple days ago but they didn't reply yet. I didn't know they also had a physical shop thanks for pointing that out I will give them a call.

    Jazzy_Jake said:
    Haha, that guitar gets buried with me. In 30 years of playing I have never bonded so well with an instrument.

    Honestly though, for 850 you get a lot with the NS X-175. Sound wise it's close to the X-150 but it has jumbo frets which I don't like.
    I knew you weren't, just a joke really  :) ! It's a great guitar isn't it? I might contact you in PM to ask you some advice as I don't have experience at all with Guild guitars.
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    Sorted, thanks everyone!
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  • joeWjoeW Frets: 539
    What did you go for? 
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    I found a gibson es-275 cherry on gumtree  :)
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  • greejngreejn Frets: 133
    If it doesn't work out, I have a ES-275 in Frost Gold.
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    greejn said:
    If it doesn't work out, I have a ES-275 in Frost Gold.
    In frost gold? I have never seen one!  :o
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  • greejngreejn Frets: 133
    Bought from the forum, will be at forum rates.
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    edited December 2022
    There's a Comins GCS-16-1 on eBay that looks amazing if someone else is looking (they don't show up that often)!

    It comes with a very sad message from the seller in the description  :'(
    Jazz just isn’t for me, unfortunately.

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  • DB1DB1 Frets: 5031
    edited December 2022
    Congrats on the ES-275 - lovely guitar. I did see that one, and I was tempted, but I had the same model that I bought and sold at around £1600 (albeit 3 years ago) and couldn't justify the extra, although prices have gone up significantly in that time. If I hadn't, I'd have been interested in that one. Although they were the cheaper ES-275, they had the rosewood fretboard, whereas the more expensive 'burst versions had Richlite, if I remember correctly, which seemed odd.

    The gold one that @greejn has was mine and is the thinlinline version, which looks great and has an absolutely beautiful neck.




    Call me Dave.
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  • greejngreejn Frets: 133
    Thanks for the input and picture Dave!
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  • spir4Lspir4L Frets: 89
    edited December 2022
    DB1 said:
    Although they were the cheaper ES-275, they had the rosewood fretboard, whereas the more expensive 'burst versions had Richlite, if I remember correctly, which seemed odd.
    That's good to know!  

    Yeah I remember shops were getting rid of ES-275 with prices under 2k, but exactly it was 3 years ago! Now you can't find a ES-335 for 2k  :#
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