It's also my baby, the one bass I'll never sell. Many other basses have came and went but the Guild is mine for life.
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It's also my baby, the one bass I'll never sell. Many other basses have came and went but the Guild is mine for life.
I had done a lot of googling before I joined this forum and could never find much if any info on the SB602 anywhere online. It got me thinking that either there were not a lot of them made or for some reason no one talked about them.
Hey - Sorry to bother the conversation with this simplistic question, but I'm baffled. I've been wondering around the web and checking different blogs as well as the Guild site, and can't get an answer to this. I know Pilots came out in '83, right? But the Guild site only has serial numbers starting with '84, and serial number starting BE103XXX. My Pilot (4-string) starts BE102. Is that an '83? I can't find any info that would confirm that or any serial numbers, and Id really like to know what that means. Another curious thing is that the head shape on my Pilot is different than the examples Ive been finding on the internet. Not sure what thats about either. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. Oh, my Pilot serial number is BE102910 if that helps or means anything. Thanks everybody.
BE102910 = 1987
Guild pilots had used several shapes for headstocks through the 1980s to early 1990s. There were the foot style (1983-mid.1987), pie-cutter (mid.1987-1992) and a pointy '80s (1987-1989) like the pointy-headstocked Jackson/Charvels and lastly the Pilot Pro (1993-1994).
83's and some 84's have a foot style that is slightly different than the foot from 86. its close in design but when you hold both of them together you can see the difference.
