The past couple of years has seen quite a few changes for Guild’s Newark Street Collection of electrics. The main one is price with guitars like the Starfire I thinlines and the chambered Aristocrat HH and P90 dropping into the mid £450-700 area and resulting in an upturn in sales. While those guitars still plunder Guild’s past, a surprise new entry earlier in 2022 is this Indonesian-made Surfliner, a bolt-on offset that can’t quite decide if it’s retro or modern. One thing is for sure, at under £400 it’s the most affordable Guild electric.
The Surfliner is also completely unique to the Guild range in that it’s an original design and, for the most part,
