Guild Pilot questions

[Silver Darling]

Hi there,
I figured someone here should be able to help me with info about my pilot.
I would like to know what year it is. Serial # BE101792
It has 4 knobs instead of 3. Was that an option or the advanced model?

 

[JTE]

You might have better luck going to "Let's Talk Guild", the Guild forum. There's also a resource there (Hans Moust) for a RELIABLE serial number dating system. The information FMIC lists on the Guild website is really unreliable. That's because Guild simply didn't keep consistent records, and because a lot of the records from before Fender's purchase of them (in 1995) were lost.

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That headstock logo, and the extra knob look very unusual. My Pilot Pro had four knobs, but they were arranged equally spaced (it was a separate volume control for each pickup, and the bass and treble controls for the factory installed Mighty Mite pre-amp/active EQ). Have you figured out what the knobs do?

John