The Guild Starfire IV 6-String Semi Acoustic Guitar Transparent Cherry Red is a fine instrument in the best Guild tradition and a welcome return of a highly popular semi-hollow Guild classic.
Features include a graceful double-cutaway thinline laminated Mahogany arched body and a rock-solid three-piece Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany neck with a Rosewood fretboard. Other premium appointments include special vintage-style ‘anti-hum dual-coil’ pickups and a classic Transparent Cherry Red finish as well as a Guild Adjusto-Matic bridge with Rosewood base, Guild ‘Harp’ tailpiece, Chesterfield headstock inlay and Grover Sta-Tite die-cast tuners.
The main features of the Guild Starfire IV 6-String Semi Acoustic Guitar Transparent Cherry Red include;
- Model Name: Starfire IV
- Series: Newark St. Collection
- Colour: Transparent Cherry Red
- Model: 379-2100-866
- Body Material: Laminated Mahogany
- Body Shape: Starfire IV
- Body Back: Arched Laminated Mahogany
- Body Sides: Laminated Mahogany
- Body Top: Arched Laminated Mahogany
- Body Finish: Gloss Urethane
- Bracing: Centre Block
- Purfling: Black/Ivory White
- F Holes Sound Holes: Unbound F Holes
- Body Depth: 1.75" (44.45 mm)
- Body Length: 20.25" (514 mm)
- Body Width Lower Bout: 16.38" (416 mm)
- Body Binding: Ivory White with Black/White Purfling
- Neck Shape: Vintage Soft "U"
- Number of Frets: 22
- Fret Size: Jumbo
- Position Inlays: Pearloid Dot
- Fingerboard Radius: 9.45" (240 mm)
- Fretboard: Rosewood
- Neck Material: 3-Piece Mahogany/Maple/Mahogany
- Neck Finish: Gloss Urethane
- Nut Width: 1.650" (42 mm)
- Scale Length: 24.75" (628 mm)
- Headstock: Newark St.
- Neck Binding: 1-Ply Ivory White
- Truss Rods: Dual-Action Head Adjust
- Truss Rod Nut: Hex
- Pickup Configuration: HH
- Bridge Pickup: Guild "Anti-Hum" Dual-Coil
- Neck Pickup: Guild "Anti-Hum" Dual-Coil
- Pickup Switching: 3-Position Blade: Position 1. Bridge Pickup, Position 2. Bridge and Neck Pickups, Position 3. Neck Pickup
- Controls: Volume 1. (Neck Pickup), Tone 1. (Neck Pickup), Volume 2. (Bridge Pickup), Tone 2. (Bridge Pickup)
- Hardware Finish: Nickel-Plated
- Bridge: Guild Adjusto-Matic with Rosewood Base
- Tuning Machines: Grover Sta-Tite Die-Cast
- String Nut: Bone
- Pickguard: Opaque Plexi Pickguard with Guild Logo
- Tools: Truss Rod Wrench
- Strings: D'Addario EXL115 Nickel Wound, Medium/Blues-Jazz Rock, (.011-.049 Gauges)
- Unique Features: Thinline Double Cutaway Semi-Hollow Body; Guild "Harp" Tailpiece; Chesterfield Headstock Inlay
- Control Knobs: Black Plastic