Guild Newark St. Collection Surfliner HH Shorline Mist Electric Guitar

General

Guild take all the sixties and seventies style of the Newark St. Collection Surfliner and load it out with two thick and juicy in-house developed HB-2 humbuckers. The offset body shaping is just as satisfying as ever, and while it bears a throwback vibe, it's been rounded off and contoured in all the right place to support modern playability, especially since it's made from poplar which, combined with the maple neck, completes a lightweight instrument with a balanced core sound that's rounded off by a lightly biting attack.

The Guild Newark St. Collection Surfliner HH: Warm Alnico-Voiced Dual & Single-Coil Sound

The pickup set of this revamped Surfliner can do much more than you might think. Warm, Alnico-flavoured sound is a given, but when you couple these humbuckers with the two Guild Rocket pickup switches mounted on the left horn and the push/pull volume pot that doubles as a coil-split switch, these pups can be isolated, blended, or split down the middle to unleash single-coil style output and double the fun. Meanwhile, the combo of a solid Tune-O-Matic bridge and string-through-body construction backs everything up with the perfect level of resonance and sustain.