This guitar is fab. The green with matching headstock looks wonderful. The first time Ryan played the neck+middle it sounded brilliant. What a great guitar
I wondered why they called this the "Surfliner," WITHOUT a vibrato on it when they first came out. I really like Guild's small humbuckers, and smaller HBs in general. But in your demo, the full-size HB sounds pretty twangable. With the wiggle stick this really sounds like a winner. And at $700? Wow. A fret polishing away a kind of perfection. Cool, cool, cool!
Thanks Ryan for letting me explore this wonderful guitar model. I have ordered one now. I also saw your other video with the coil split modification. Maybe I will do this too. Don't know if I will mess up the wiring like you did. I love your humor, especially when Editing Ryan comments.
Man, I just bought my original Surfliner like a week BEFORE these leaked. Now I want this one too! But hey.. my originial is orange which is the best color, so..
The first surfliner caught my attention, but yeah no tremolo bar, no dice for a surf guitar. I’m sure Guild got some feedback 🤨. ..major improvements 😊
Great video. Good runs through on this killer looking guitar dude! Thanks. Guild had guys like us in their sights when they designed these things! The Rose Quartz Metallic with a severe space echo might have to be bought!
Sir 👏 You might be doing the best guitar reviews on the net. First parts are informative and understandable - but I love the tone checks and inevitable meandering that we all do with a new guitar. You're so capable and fearless yet so honest and informative. Please keep that format, you're the fn man 🙌
Gorgeous Guild! Matches your shirt beautifully, and the added wiggle-stick makes it very surferfluous (feel free to use this term whenever you wish). Well done, sir.
Very Duo-Sonic shaped body. Great surf tones and really has its own character... kind of like a new surfer invading the locals. Do they accept him or ostracise him? I like what this Guild brings to the table... er, beach... whatever, you get the point. The pink version is killer!
I think the majority of the RUclips guitar community has been waiting not just for a review of this guitar but more specifically YOUR review. Your name has come up in every comment section of other's reviews, haha, nice job man.
Oh Ryan, the 8-bit Two Princesses... This is a lovely guitar. I swore to myself no-more guitars, but feeling guitar envy. What's really interesting is that I'm watching this while playing this Strat partscaster I just built through a Princeton Reverb. And I'm getting the same tones you're making with the Surfliner. I'm using Duncan Surfers and a blender circuit with all 3 pickups in parallel at once. Also I have Raw Vintage springs in the strat, and they are low tension and make strats sound like jaguars, jangle and chime.
You comment about the roasted neck, I agree with you. I like the way they feel as well. I recently replaced the neck on my 2017 Fender Strat with a Fender roasted replacement neck, and it was like buying a new quitar. If fels differant in your hands, and sounds very differant.
After looking at this for hours, my eyes keep going back to the pickguard cutout for the Jaguar/Jazzmaster metal plate under the controls, but there is no metal plate. Why is that cutout there? Any chance Guild will MAKE a metal plate to go there? The metal plate is very necessary if the pickguard is cut like that.
Hahahahaha. I'm not a regular watcher, but I did see your earlier review of The Surfliner sans wiggle stick....and I agreed 100%, and I even remembered that when I saw this new release, so I guess the law is that I have to watch this now
Nice that Guild added the tremelo bar. I wish they would have left the 3 rocker switches for the pickups like the regular Surfliner has rather than the strat style 5 way switch. Pretty nice guitar though.
That was my reaction also but I think this guitar is gig-worthy, and if you're gigging the rocker switches would drive you crazy. I watched Ryan's next vid where he coil splits the humbuckers and I think that puts it on par with the rocker switches (7 tones also now).
Looks great stock, but this has "mod platform" written all over it. Jag pickups in the mid/neck. Route body and new pickgaurd for two LB-1s. Filtertrons?
I would love to swap out the pickups and experiment with wiring configurations. The guitars on the wall coupled with the color of the room... and the shirt & the sound Brilliant. Like a shroom trip.
I think I know what guitar I need after getting a strats now. I was going to get a epiphone firebird for offset guitar but this one seems way better for the same money
Thanks. This is the new guitar I’ve been most curious about. Good to see a video of somebody twanging on one, answered my biggest questions about the tone and pickups.
That is a very nice guitar and a trusted brand. I have been pondering a jm or strat for a couple of years now, Plus versatility. Tremolo, so I can cover all bases with one guitar. This guitar will work fine for rock, classic rock, most fender tones, and surf with a trem and even country with no issues. I think I found my guitar and it's not expensive at all!!! I have been pondering Sire, Squire 40th JM or strat, Fender player series and this beats them all in my opinion. As far as an electric guitar to do what I just said.
I bought the original Surfliner a few months ago and now this comes out. It's okay though. The main reasons I bought mine were the orange color and the switches. I wish I could put this neck on the original though.
There is absolutely no need to replace the humbucker when you have (at least) 3 other similar styled guitars that do that already! Collecting 20 Jaguar inspired guitars and modifying them to all sound the same is SOME KIND OF CRAZY, & someone needs to lovingly point that out to you ( i love you man!) The only mod this might (maybe) benefit from is the 1MegaOhm pot swap ( giving you something that no one else has, including you) Guild missing out the chrome jag plate on this design, and filling the area with strat-style stuff is some quirky fun to me.
I understand wanting a "wiggle stick" to play surf music, but the other model works great for a non-trem option. Plus, I love the switches that allow for the 7 pickup combinations vs the 5 this one has and the string through the body on the other one. Plus, you're paying $200 more for this one. If they kept the switches like on the other one might be worth it. Just my opinion. This is a nice option as well.
We might be in the minority here...But I liked the switches as well. Quirky? Maybe. But isn't this whole guitar a little quirky? Plus I like the green with matching headstock. Don't need another guitfiddle, but I have G.A.S.
I would like to welcome our Yamaha overlords for Guild - Córdoba Music Group. Can we get a DeArmond in these lovely guitars ? PS Great idea to have this surf dood review it. Heck, he matched the guitars colour with his shirt, that also blended the hair/reddish tan. And the Two Princes! (I gotta get one of these, but right now, I need to head out to vacation a bit.)
The Specs said "narrow jumbo" frets. To me that is a selling point...would you say these are actually jumbo? My idea of jumbo is that your fingers won't touch the neck when you fret unless you apply a lot of pressure. Those pickups look like the Fender Cu Ni Fe pickups...are there any details about them? Guild website says the bridge has a push/pull......
I like the green color & pickguard. The pink guitar needs the black pickguard, I mean come on...pink & black is rock n roll! And the black needs the white to give it some depth. But the guitar itself is Very Cool!
I can’t believe this came out when the only thing stopping me from picking up the original surf liner was the lack of wiggle stick… after I got a new guitar this week. Well, I know what I’ll be saving up for now!
So, I've seen a couple of reviews that show this coming with the gig bag, but can't find anything in retailer descriptions that mention it. Also, I think it was Guild's website that said, "included case: no". So if it does come with the bag, is it all Surfliners, or just the Deluxe?
Yeah, who would ever make any guitar with the word "surf" in it's name and not with a trem bar?!?!?!? This looks really cool. If I didn't already have a Jag I'd be all over this, especially for $700. Great review as always! Now Ryan, put some thomastik infeld flats on it and see what that does?
Ok I have an HUGE dilemma : should I sell my fender stratocaster 60s series custom shop design... To buy this greenie Guild? What's better? Im so confused 😕
Great-looking guitar! Only change I’d make would be to install a coil-split on the bridge pickup, IF the single-coil sound was equal in volume to the other single-coils on the guitar. I’d also put in an add-neck-pickup switch to enable neck-and-bridge and all-three settings.
Hey there! I appreciate this video so much. If you don't mind, I have a couple questions: First off, I'm coming from a mexican Fender Jaguar player and I have had nothing but issues with that guitar. Won't stay in tune, intonation constantly gets out of whack, action doesn't seem stable, and these issues just make it super annoying to play. I don't have time like I used to to fiddle with my guitar, and so I just find myself never wanting to play. Looking at the guild deluxe, it checks all my boxes: humbucker and single coil combos, trem bar, and the looks. But how is the tuning stability? Intonation stability? How is the setup out of the box?
Ive had no issues with tuning stability or or intonation but ive been hearing reports that others are having intonation issues with the surfliner. Tuning stability with most guitars comes down to the nut, for trem use you want the strings to completely bind in the nut (a hard thing to accomplish) or all slide in the nut (an easier thing to accomplish). With a Jaguar the bridge should be set up to rock on its posts lending to tuning stability with trem use.
Want this but many people complaining about bad tuners (loosening), squeaky vibrato, incorrect bridge placement on some (won’t intonate), and finish paint defects. Too bad because I wanted to buy this but don’t want a project guitar.
The name 'Surfliner' for a guitar doesn't really make any sense, if it doesn't have a stick, so about time I'd say 😅😆 Heat treatment of wood will of course make the wood more dry and light weight. But it also makes it more stiff (bad for neckbending) and more resonating, because there's more air in more dry wood, so the reflections of the vibrations aren't dampened as much. They have more places to go. Personally I'm not into matching headstocks. It's a little much for me. But for some reason I don't mind it, if it's a different color paint than on the body that both contrasts and compliments the overall look. I have an Ibanez TMB100 (bass) in mint green with tort guard and jatoba fretboard. The headstock is black with the usual golden letters, and it actually looks good together with everything else imo. I'm not a fan of tort guards either, but the pale mintgreen contrasts the brownish red very nicely in this case. I also put a round black Laney Lionheart sticker with a roaring golden lion on the body. Compliments the headstock and usual black pickups very nicely.
I do NOT need any more guitars, but this is checking all the boxes for me. Love that finish, the pearloid pickguard, the sound...
DAMN IT RYAN.
Yep!!Dam it!!!. Sold 😂💯🇦🇺🎸
Of course you need another guitar... shut up and get out your wallet.
I do NOT need this… until they make a blue one :)
The spirit of rock has called me! Now I just need a call from the spirit of funding
$50ish a month on zzounds. First payment upfront, will be on your porch in 2 days.
I got to try one in a local store, and I'm glad of that. It's not my guitar.
@@sirpetethegreat to each their own 🤷
Two of my favourite guitars, the Jazzmaster and the Strat’. This combines the two. Can’t wait for mine to arrive.
This guitar is fab. The green with matching headstock looks wonderful. The first time Ryan played the neck+middle it sounded brilliant. What a great guitar
I wondered why they called this the "Surfliner," WITHOUT a vibrato on it when they first came out.
I really like Guild's small humbuckers, and smaller HBs in general. But in your demo, the full-size HB sounds pretty twangable.
With the wiggle stick this really sounds like a winner. And at $700? Wow.
A fret polishing away a kind of perfection. Cool, cool, cool!
Thanks Ryan for letting me explore this wonderful guitar model. I have ordered one now. I also saw your other video with the coil split modification. Maybe I will do this too. Don't know if I will mess up the wiring like you did.
I love your humor, especially when Editing Ryan comments.
Love this guy he enjoys playing..he has fun on these reviews..keep them coming..
Man, I just bought my original Surfliner like a week BEFORE these leaked. Now I want this one too! But hey.. my originial is orange which is the best color, so..
I'm on that way, LOVE trem but the Orange one is the pretiest one.
Thanks for the review dude... I've been looking for something unique and different to round out my collection and this is it. Much appreciated!
Wow, that is truly one of the most beautiful guitars I've seen.
The first surfliner caught my attention, but yeah no tremolo bar, no dice for a surf guitar. I’m sure Guild got some feedback 🤨. ..major improvements 😊
yes, it had those awful computer switches as well
Great video. Good runs through on this killer looking guitar dude! Thanks. Guild had guys like us in their sights when they designed these things! The Rose Quartz Metallic with a severe space echo might have to be bought!
I gotta have this exact guitar. Seems perfect for my Johnny Marr licks.
Great guitar, I love the sparkle green! It stayed in tune the whole way !!!! Keep it. 😂
Ordered the pink one..... Should have it tomorrow!!! You sold me on this one!!!!😎
Your playing of "Rumble" sounds absolutely crushing here! Total switch blade guitar tone!
I love the colour. I really like green guitars, so it gets my vote.
That flake looks so beautiful with a matching headstock. The pickups sound good with overdrive as well, liked bridge most.
NOW it can be properly called a Surfliner!
Sir 👏
You might be doing the best guitar reviews on the net. First parts are informative and understandable - but I love the tone checks and inevitable meandering that we all do with a new guitar. You're so capable and fearless yet so honest and informative. Please keep that format, you're the fn man 🙌
That looks like a huge upgrade to the original one nice work guild.
Gorgeous Guild! Matches your shirt beautifully, and the added wiggle-stick makes it very surferfluous (feel free to use this term whenever you wish). Well done, sir.
Very Duo-Sonic shaped body. Great surf tones and really has its own character... kind of like a new surfer invading the locals. Do they accept him or ostracise him? I like what this Guild brings to the table... er, beach... whatever, you get the point. The pink version is killer!
....and BTW, the more I watch your channel the more I enjoy it........have fun @ Sweetwater
WOW!!!!! Awesome guitar
reminds me a ton of the short-lived fender sixty six, but without having to pay the fender premium. Love it!
I’m a metal guy and even I want one of those guitars
A wiggle stick mechanism with a hex screw on the outside is a stroke of genius.
Trem arms always end up going loose and Guild have solved it.
Looks and sounds gorgeous. Really impressed by the range of tones those pickups have.
Those pickups! This metal head is about to get surfy!
I think the majority of the RUclips guitar community has been waiting not just for a review of this guitar but more specifically YOUR review. Your name has come up in every comment section of other's reviews, haha, nice job man.
my ears have been burning.
That's a pretty neat set of upgrades over the basic surfliner.
I love this guitar! Just not crazy about the color offerings so far. That’s the only thing preventing me from pre-ordering one today.
Green, no mods. Very versatile guitar.
That headstock reminds me of a starcaster headstock.
Oh Ryan, the 8-bit Two Princesses... This is a lovely guitar. I swore to myself no-more guitars, but feeling guitar envy. What's really interesting is that I'm watching this while playing this Strat partscaster I just built through a Princeton Reverb. And I'm getting the same tones you're making with the Surfliner. I'm using Duncan Surfers and a blender circuit with all 3 pickups in parallel at once. Also I have Raw Vintage springs in the strat, and they are low tension and make strats sound like jaguars, jangle and chime.
only green, only mod would be a blender circuit to get the bridge and neck at same time in parallel
Great review and awesome playing. Subscribed to see the guts
There’s been a lot of fun vidz. The hunt for surf 🏄♂️ worthy guitars at NAMM ~ This vid is a sudden favourite 💯 % 🎉 Great play Ry’
🎼🎶🎤🎸🔌📻🔊🗿🌋🏄♂️
You comment about the roasted neck, I agree with you. I like the way they feel as well. I recently replaced the neck on my 2017 Fender Strat with a Fender roasted replacement neck, and it was like buying a new quitar. If fels differant in your hands, and sounds very differant.
drooling over these rn
After looking at this for hours, my eyes keep going back to the pickguard cutout for the Jaguar/Jazzmaster metal plate under the controls, but there is no metal plate. Why is that cutout there? Any chance Guild will MAKE a metal plate to go there? The metal plate is very necessary if the pickguard is cut like that.
Awesome Thanks Ryan
this is amazing & all it needs is a sunburst finish & i’d instantly cash out.
I saw your other surfliner on offer up, but it definitely needs a wiggle stick
Hahahahaha. I'm not a regular watcher, but I did see your earlier review of The Surfliner sans wiggle stick....and I agreed 100%, and I even remembered that when I saw this new release, so I guess the law is that I have to watch this now
Looks & sounds like a Kool Guitar!
it's begging for a tortoise shell pickguard! they really missed out on that one
I want a gold acrylic guard on it like a gretsch pickguard
Wow, tortoise shell would be wicked! That never occurred to me.
This guitar looks amazing. Wondering about the new Electromatic P90, too, as I also find the Amythyst rather stunning.
Nice that Guild added the tremelo bar. I wish they would have left the 3 rocker switches for the pickups like the regular Surfliner has rather than the strat style 5 way switch. Pretty nice guitar though.
That was my reaction also but I think this guitar is gig-worthy, and if you're gigging the rocker switches would drive you crazy. I watched Ryan's next vid where he coil splits the humbuckers and I think that puts it on par with the rocker switches (7 tones also now).
That reverb, when you switched it on, was so gratuitously drippy, it made me laugh. And the guitar is a cracker!
Thanks for the review.
Looks great stock, but this has "mod platform" written all over it. Jag pickups in the mid/neck. Route body and new pickgaurd for two LB-1s. Filtertrons?
I would love to swap out the pickups and experiment with wiring configurations. The guitars on the wall coupled with the color of the room... and the shirt & the sound Brilliant. Like a shroom trip.
Do you think the headstock is super fragile like a firebirds?
Sounds like a Strat. Sounds good.👍
I think I know what guitar I need after getting a strats now. I was going to get a epiphone firebird for offset guitar but this one seems way better for the same money
Thanks. This is the new guitar I’ve been most curious about. Good to see a video of somebody twanging on one, answered my biggest questions about the tone and pickups.
My next guitar - the pink one! The 'regular' Surfliners are solid, but these are at another level for a couple hundred bucks more.
That is a very nice guitar and a trusted brand. I have been pondering a jm or strat for a couple of years now, Plus versatility. Tremolo, so I can cover all bases with one guitar. This guitar will work fine for rock, classic rock, most fender tones, and surf with a trem and even country with no issues. I think I found my guitar and it's not expensive at all!!! I have been pondering Sire, Squire 40th JM or strat, Fender player series and this beats them all in my opinion. As far as an electric guitar to do what I just said.
Hey!!! Please do some more of this guitar!!! I just got one! Pretty please??!!
I have a follow up video where i mod it by splitting the humbucker.
Those pickups sound great.
Great demo. I'll prolly buy one based on this.
I bought the original Surfliner a few months ago and now this comes out. It's okay though. The main reasons I bought mine were the orange color and the switches. I wish I could put this neck on the original though.
Looks cool, sounds cool 👍👍👍
There is absolutely no need to replace the humbucker when you have (at least) 3 other similar styled guitars that do that already!
Collecting 20 Jaguar inspired guitars and modifying them to all sound the same is SOME KIND OF CRAZY, & someone needs to lovingly point that out to you ( i love you man!)
The only mod this might (maybe) benefit from is the 1MegaOhm pot swap ( giving you something that no one else has, including you)
Guild missing out the chrome jag plate on this design, and filling the area with strat-style stuff is some quirky fun to me.
I understand wanting a "wiggle stick" to play surf music, but the other model works great for a non-trem option. Plus, I love the switches that allow for the 7 pickup combinations vs the 5 this one has and the string through the body on the other one. Plus, you're paying $200 more for this one. If they kept the switches like on the other one might be worth it. Just my opinion. This is a nice option as well.
You just made me realize this one doesn’t have the switches. I don’t like it now
We might be in the minority here...But I liked the switches as well. Quirky? Maybe. But isn't this whole guitar a little quirky? Plus I like the green with matching headstock. Don't need another guitfiddle, but I have G.A.S.
Damn fine playing, Ryan.
so tempted by these! although; i am interested in your eart collaboration first!
As for the trem arm socket rubbing on the string - I bet if you put a piece of Scotch tape on the collar that would reduce the noise considerably...
I would like to welcome our Yamaha overlords for Guild - Córdoba Music Group. Can we get a DeArmond in these lovely guitars ?
PS Great idea to have this surf dood review it. Heck, he matched the guitars colour with his shirt, that also blended the hair/reddish tan. And the Two Princes!
(I gotta get one of these, but right now, I need to head out to vacation a bit.)
That is a killer surf guitar!
I'm really liking the looks of this guitar...
The Specs said "narrow jumbo" frets. To me that is a selling point...would you say these are actually jumbo? My idea of jumbo is that your fingers won't touch the neck when you fret unless you apply a lot of pressure.
Those pickups look like the Fender Cu Ni Fe pickups...are there any details about them?
Guild website says the bridge has a push/pull......
Love it..what did you use for the drip..
I like the green color & pickguard. The pink guitar needs the black pickguard, I mean come on...pink & black is rock n roll! And the black needs the white to give it some depth. But the guitar itself is Very Cool!
YES ! Beautiful guitar !
I can’t believe this came out when the only thing stopping me from picking up the original surf liner was the lack of wiggle stick… after I got a new guitar this week. Well, I know what I’ll be saving up for now!
So, I've seen a couple of reviews that show this coming with the gig bag, but can't find anything in retailer descriptions that mention it. Also, I think it was Guild's website that said, "included case: no". So if it does come with the bag, is it all Surfliners, or just the Deluxe?
It doesn’t come with the bag. Sorry.
All that was said in this video is true. This guitar is absolutely amazing.
Yeah, who would ever make any guitar with the word "surf" in it's name and not with a trem bar?!?!?!? This looks really cool. If I didn't already have a Jag I'd be all over this, especially for $700. Great review as always! Now Ryan, put some thomastik infeld flats on it and see what that does?
Been looking for something to pair with the psychedelic rock stuff I’ve been playing lately, this is looking like it.
Off Topic: The moment you mention "Two Princetons" rig with that Two Princess on 8-bit, I realized you look so close like *Chris Barron*
Does she surf? Oh, she surfs! Thanks for making me want one!!!!
Thanks so much for the review on this guitar. The work you do is greatly appreciated.
Ok I have an HUGE dilemma : should I sell my fender stratocaster 60s series custom shop design... To buy this greenie Guild? What's better? Im so confused 😕
Great-looking guitar! Only change I’d make would be to install a coil-split on the bridge pickup, IF the single-coil sound was equal in volume to the other single-coils on the guitar. I’d also put in an add-neck-pickup switch to enable neck-and-bridge and all-three settings.
For a moment you had the Mosrite Ventures tone cica 1965 Japan!
It's a perfect guitar for his style, we can see he have fun😊
LET'S BUY IT. Thanks... I really didn't need another guitar, but happy to oblige. Just don't tell my wife.
I stand corrected
I wonder if I can put Jag pups in the top two positions
Hey there! I appreciate this video so much. If you don't mind, I have a couple questions:
First off, I'm coming from a mexican Fender Jaguar player and I have had nothing but issues with that guitar. Won't stay in tune, intonation constantly gets out of whack, action doesn't seem stable, and these issues just make it super annoying to play. I don't have time like I used to to fiddle with my guitar, and so I just find myself never wanting to play.
Looking at the guild deluxe, it checks all my boxes: humbucker and single coil combos, trem bar, and the looks. But how is the tuning stability? Intonation stability? How is the setup out of the box?
Ive had no issues with tuning stability or or intonation but ive been hearing reports that others are having intonation issues with the surfliner. Tuning stability with most guitars comes down to the nut, for trem use you want the strings to completely bind in the nut (a hard thing to accomplish) or all slide in the nut (an easier thing to accomplish). With a Jaguar the bridge should be set up to rock on its posts lending to tuning stability with trem use.
Is this Guild guitar better than a Squier Classic Vibe Stratocarter? I need a guitar to play in Church. Thank you so much, God bless you.
I think so, they're extremely well-specced for the money
YEs! I was gonna ask you to review this lol awesome video.
Green for me!
Yussss. I miss that blue, tho.
Want this but many people complaining about bad tuners (loosening), squeaky vibrato, incorrect bridge placement on some (won’t intonate), and finish paint defects. Too bad because I wanted to buy this but don’t want a project guitar.
I can’t decide between this or a Vintera jazzmaster for a shoegazing upgrade to my classic vibe jm which one do I go for
I think a maple fretboard with the green would be the schist
The name 'Surfliner' for a guitar doesn't really make any sense, if it doesn't have a stick, so about time I'd say 😅😆
Heat treatment of wood will of course make the wood more dry and light weight. But it also makes it more stiff (bad for neckbending) and more resonating, because there's more air in more dry wood, so the reflections of the vibrations aren't dampened as much. They have more places to go.
Personally I'm not into matching headstocks. It's a little much for me. But for some reason I don't mind it, if it's a different color paint than on the body that both contrasts and compliments the overall look.
I have an Ibanez TMB100 (bass) in mint green with tort guard and jatoba fretboard. The headstock is black with the usual golden letters, and it actually looks good together with everything else imo.
I'm not a fan of tort guards either, but the pale mintgreen contrasts the brownish red very nicely in this case.
I also put a round black Laney Lionheart sticker with a roaring golden lion on the body. Compliments the headstock and usual black pickups very nicely.