![]() This is a rare example of a guitar for which I have almost all of the catalogs so, dammit, I’m going to show them off. Here’s a good post on the subject from the LetsTalkGuild forum if you’d like to dig a little deeper on that subject. While the X160 Savoy was sort of a “budget version X170”, the X160 Rockabilly was sort of a “souped-up version of the X150.” To make matters even more confusing, the X150 Savoy name was also used back in the 1950s and ’60s, but I’m going to ignore that for now in the interest of my own sanity. You can see the difference between the X150/X150D and the X170 (with neither showing a Bigsby option) on page 28 of the Summer 1998 edition of Guild Gallery, which was a sort of magazine/catalog hybrid that Guild put out for a couple of years. The Westerly X150 had a bound fretboard and block inlays, but was generally a harp tailpiece jazz kind of guitar with a single neck pickup, though it also came in the X150D variety with dual pickups. It’s got the same body shape and style, but it has all chrome hardware and no neck binding. The X160 Rockabilly, however has the shape and body style of the smaller X150 guitar, which differs from the X160/X170 in that it’s a bit smaller on the bottom bout and a bit deeper overall. ![]() The X160 Savoy is kind of like a stripped down X170 Manhattan.
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