Summary: The Guild X-500 is fully hollow, has a laminated top and sides, and is a full depth instrument. It has wide frets, an Ebony fingerboard, dual Guild HB-1 humbuckers, and a harp tailpiece. The floating bridge sits on a beautiful piece of Spruce. Controls include two volumes and two tones, a master volume, and a 3-way pickup selector. This Guild also comes with the original hard-shell case. Body: Spruce top with laminated Maple back and sides, fully bound. Neck: Maple with a bound Ebony fingerboard, 24.75” scale length, 1 5/8” nut width, 20 frets, abalone/pearl inlays. Pickups/Hardware: Two Guild humbuckers, gold Grover tuning keys, 2x volume/2x tone controls/master volume/3-way pickup selector, black Guild pickguard, floating bridge, harp tailpiece, gold hardware. Cosmetics: This guitar is in excellent condition. It has very light surface scratches and small indentations on the back of the body that can be seen in a reflection. The back of the neck is clean and the frets show minimal wear. The hardware has started to slightly tarnish. Playability: Our in-house guitar tech has inspected, setup, and restrung this instrument with a new set of strings. The neck is straight, the truss rod is fully functional, and the action has been setup low and comfortable. The frets are in great shape with no major grooves or divots from use and it plays beautifully up and down the fretboard with no dead spots or choking out.Weight: 8.2 lbs. Case: This guitar ships in the original hard-shell case, professionally packaged, and fully insured.
