Guild Benedetto Artist Award Sunburst (USED, c. 2001)
Hollow-Body/Archtop · Humbuckers Pickups · Used
This 2001 Benedetto Artist Award features a beautifully figured flame maple back, sides, and neck paired with a bookmatched spruce top. Multi-ply bindings, an engraved gold-plated tailpiece, ebony bridge, gold Grover Imperial tuners, and a tortoise pickguard w/floating pickup round out the Artist Award's deluxe '30s-'40s inspired appointments.
After spending some time with this gorgeous guitar we immediately got why these are so sought after and highly regarded by working jazz players. It has a wonderful, rich midrange and acoustic voice when played acoustically. To make things easy, we usually think of archtops as falling into either the Wes camp or the Jim Hall camp tonally - this guitar lives more in the Jim Hall world to our ears - meaning - it has more of an acoustic quality, an air surrounding each note, that Jim's tone has. It's really gorgeous and inspired a prolonged playing session as a result.
Plugged in, the Benedetto Model S-6 Floating Single Coil Pickup delivers exceptional tone with clear top end and a tight bass that supports the acoustic voice very well. It's a beautiful sound and one that pairs perfectly with this guitar.
| Size | 17" wide x 3" deep |
| Top | Spruce |
| Body | Flamed Maple |
| Neck | 5-Piece Flamed Maple |
| Fingerboard | Ebony |
| Profile | Medium C |
| Nut | 1 11/16" |
| Inlays | Abalone V Block |
| Tuners | Grover Imperial |
| Pickup | Benedetto Model S-6 Floating Single Coil Pickup |
| Scale Length | 25 1/2" |
| Case | Hardshell |
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