1978 Left Handed Guild B-302 Bass All Original

Up for sale is a rare lefty 1978 Guild B-302 Bass. I’ve loved this bass for 14 years but I don’t play much bass anymore and it’s time to let her go.

It’s nowhere near mint cosmetically (see pics). It was like this when I bought it 14 years ago. However, the wear is purely cosmetic; it’s built like a tank and plays exceptionally well.

The bass is all stock. Mahogany body with a thick 3-piece mahogany neck, set-neck design, rosewood fretboard, 1 5/8” nut width, 34” scale, two wide single-coil pickups, Schaller tuners. Pickup controls are V/T/V/T with 3-way pickup selector switch. Chrome-plated brass bridge with tilt adjustment.

The straight baseball bat neck and tilt-adjustable bridge provides from some low action; I’ve included a pic of the 12th fret with the E string fretted at the first and last frets. I haven’t spent much time adjusting it; you might be able to get the action even lower. The frets are in great shape and have a lot of life left on them.

When the bridge pickup (only) is selected, the tone pot acts as a volume control. However, it works correctly as a tone roll off when both pickups are selected. Not sure what this means (bad cap? grounding?), but I’ll let you address it if you want to.

The bass is neck-heavy, and a prior owner created a strap-button hole on the back near the base of the neck. Someone also made two extra strap holes on the upper bout.

Comes with a late-70’s / early 80’s Guild case I recently bought from a store in Nashville. The case is missing the Guild logo on the outside but looks absolutely legit based on some recent Ebay sales of Guild basses from that era.

Bass weighs 8.8 lbs. on my bathroom scale.

Thanks.

Geoff