Guild Introduces Blues 90 Guitar
 February 3, 2000
One of Guild’s oldest and most storied electric
guitar families will welcome a new addition this January with the introduction
of the Blues 90. Designed to offer guitarists elegance and a wide variety
of possible tones, this offspring of Guild’s Bluesbird family is
just as playable, alluring and as downright hip as its siblings.
The
secret to the new Blues 90, and the origin of its name, can be found in
its pickups. Unlike the Standard and AAA Bluesbirds with their Seymour
Duncan“ humbuckers, the Blues 90 offers up the classic tone and feel
of its dual Seymour Duncan, cream colored P-90s. A range response of fat
low ends, a raucous and bluesy middle, crisp highs, and the signature
crunch of P-90 power, are all characteristics of Guild’s latest offering.
The solid mahogany body of the Blues 90 features carefully engineered
sound chambers. These chambers actually harness sound from the guitar
to help the mahogany body and carved flame maple top vibrate better, giving
an enhanced resonance and sustain that you can’t find with most "plank"
solid-body electrics.
Like the body, the neck of the Blues 90 is mahogany and has an unbound
rosewood fretboard. But unlike the Standard and AAA Bluesbirds, the Blues
90 has simple "dot" inlays as opposed to "blocks".
The Blues 90’s tail piece is a stop bar with a Guild Adjust-O-Matic
bridge. All hardware is chrome, including the Guild die cast tuners. Finish
options for the dazzling, carved flame maple top are Emerald Green Transparent,
Black Cherry or Ebony Transparent. Production of the Blues 90 begins in
January, 2000, and the MSRP is $1,799.99.
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