DeArmond by Guild X135 and Peerless Gigmaster SC at Collar City Guitars - All of Me

DeArmond by Guild X135 and Peerless Gigmaster SC played by Peter Fisher and Mike Jenkins at Collar City Guitars in Troy, NY. The X-135 is a single cutaway, hollow-body archtop guitar that was based on DeArmond&venerable X-155 body shape, but with just a single American-made DeArmond Goldtone Humbucking pickup in the neck position. With the introduction of the X-135 back in 1999, DeArmond expanded on its line of jazz guitars and added a greater variety of alternatives to the more costly jazz guitar manufacturers. Very soon after its introduction, De Armond ceased production of the X-135, making these guitars even more collectable today! The X-135 is made with a maple top, back and sides, and has a maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. To highlight its natural aesthetics, the X-135 has a cream colored body binding and pearl "dot" inlays. The fingerboard radius of the X-135 is 12", and features 22 jumbo nickel silver frets. One volume and one tone control, die-cast chrome machine heads, and a rosewood bridge with DeArmond&"harp" style tailpiece are the finishing touches on this beautiful and versatile guitar. When the Fender company purchased Guild in 1995, they later launched an &range of &by Guild&models, as per the Squier relationship is to Fender and Epiphone is to Gibson - They came up with 2 or 3 interesting models, but sadly the Fender company ceased production only a few years later, so models like this X135, the X155 and Starfire are now quite rare, hence they...