1996 Guild Artist Award with original Guild Case

Nearly unplayed, shows minimal wear except some stress cracks in the neck binding (see photos)

Setup with Thomastik Infeld flatwounds

From Guild's website

The Artist Award is our flagship jazz guitar. It's an acoustic archop built of the finest materials. A carved solid spruce top, solid curly maple back and sides, a five-piece maple neck with a select ebony fretboard and distinctive inlays of natural abalone and mother of pearl make the Artist Award a work of art to both ear and eye.

A floating pickup allows the Artist Award to be amplified without the interfering with the true acoustic nature of this masterpiece. Our most experienced and skilled craftsmen are chosen to work on the Artist Award. In the 40-year history of Guild, only 1,600 Artist Awards have been made, making this fine instrument not only a great-sounding and beautiful instrument, but a collector's item as well. No words can describe what must be experienced--this certainly applies to the Artist Award

Body:  Hollow; solid 2-piece Sitka spruce top, solid 2-piece flame German maple back and sides; 9-ply bound top and back

 Finish:  Natural, nitrocellulose lacquer

 Neck:  5-piece flame maple, set-in; 9-ply bound headstock with abalone and mother-of-pearl logo and inlay

 Fingerboard:  Ebony, bound; mother of pearl block markers with abalone inserts

 Number of Frets:  20

 Pickguard:  Tortoloid plastic, 5-ply bound

 Bridge:  Ebony on ebony base; Guild harp tailpiece, gold

 Nut:  Bone

 Tuners:  Grover Super Rotomatic, gold

 Pickups:  One, Guild floating humbucker , gold

 Controls:  Master volume

 Scale Length:  25 5/8 inches

 Neck Width at Nut:  1 3/4 inches

 Body Width at Lower Bout:  17 3/16 inches

 Body Depth:  3 1/2 inches