Guild Surfliner Deluxe Electric Guitar - Evergreen Metallic Reviews
More than just a visual upgrade over the standard Surfliner, Guild’s Surfliner Deluxe fully commits to the offset guitar formula with the surfy sounds of a 2-piece vibrato unit! This unit style hails from the vintage era’s surf and offset guitars, offering an incredibly smooth, gliding vibrato action and a distinct quick-attack, moderate sustain sound. In addition, the Surfliner Deluxe truly lives up to its “Deluxe” designation, boasting a maple neck with sleek block/binding rosewood fingerboard, matched painted headstock, and redesigned control scheme. The rest is all classic Surfliner: the lightweight poplar body is home to an endlessly versatile 3-pickup HSS configuration of a bridge Guild HB-2 humbucker and two DeArmond Aerosonic single-coils to effortlessly cover everything from traditional washed-out surf tones to hard rock swagger and beyond.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Guild Surfliner Delux
Love this guitar, it plays and sounds like a dream. The neck is very smooth and you have a lot of pickup options. You cannot beat this guitar if you are looking for a smooth sound and tremolo bar guitar at this point. An added bonus is that it comes with locking tuners.
Sweet Off-set Guitar!
I have always favored Fender's offset guitars like the Jazzmaster and Jaguar, so when I saw a Guild Surfliner Deluxe model with similar features and some welcomed updates on the retro vibe, I decided to go for it. Wow! Not only does this guitar have great tone, but also nice features like the bound fretboard, large pearled fret markers, and a floating tremolo. The neck is neither too chunky or too small. Locking tuners is a big upgrade from the vintage type. The painted headstock is boss, especially with the cool Guild spaghetti logo. A very good guitar for the price! I couldn't be happier!
Don't Think, Just Buy It!
I will be honest, I thought this guitar just looked to good to be true but it has exceeded my highest expectations! First of all, the build quality is outstanding, better than a lot of my guitars costing 4 to 5 times as much. The tones it produces are a constant joy and the playability, once again, far outstrips it's selling price. If this is the new direction of Guild, bring it on!!!
Great Guitar at the Price Point
Let me say the guitar is first and foremost just as gorgeous as you would expect. The setup came in nice, possibly thanks to Sweetwater, but I will say compared to Fender Player Jags it's night and day in terms of setup out of the box.
I really enjoy the pickups. I feel like there is a fairly wide range of tones and it plays nicely with my Studio 1 DAW and Boss Katana.
Overall, I am very happy with this guitar. It's definitely not the best guitar I've ever played nor the best sounding, but at this price point no other offset comes close.
Amazing guitar for the money!
This is my first offset guitar I've owned and it's really great. The build quality and finish are excellent, the neck feels amazing and roasted maple at this price point is a great value. The locking tuners aren't great quality and I think a roller bridge is a better choice than tone-o-matic for this type of vibrato, but otherwise I couldn't have asked for much more. The single-coils sound great, very clear and precise but also very full on the low end. The humbucker is a great inclusion, it's a nice lower output sound that keeps the vintage vibe. I also play a lot of heavier music and I played this in my metal band - the bridge pickup for riffs and such with the neck / middle for solos cuts so well and offers so many different tones at your fingertips. Great guitar for the money!
QC Issues
It's a cool guitar, looks are great and it plays pretty nice. Mine was a return with some repairable damage that I got at a great price. But I'm not impressed with some of the QC issues I have encountered in a guitar of this price point (I've had none of these issues on Squier guitars that cost less than half as much). First, the pick guard was not aligned correctly, to the point that the strings were nearly centered between the pole pieces on the bridge humbucker. The 5 way switch has failed after about a month (it has one of the super-cheap pcb-style switches you see on budget guitars). And the rear control cavity cover was too big, so it was sort of jammed into its recess and buckling outward. Like I said, I bought it knowing it was going to be a project and I have fixed these problems myself, but I would be pretty disappointed if I'd paid full price and gotten a guitar with these sorts of factory issues. Oh, and a guitar with a tremolo like this should obviously not come with a regular tune o matic style bridge, the strings hang up on it. I swapped it out with a roller bridge, major improvement. Now that I've got it sorted out I really do like this guitar a lot, but I hope they've gotten it together over at the Guild factory.
