At some point today, my new guitar will arrive at the workplace. If anyone remembers from my early post, my first purchase was an old Gibson SG Special back in 2004, I think. It was the cheapest SG I could find and wanted it because I thought that was the model Kim Thayil of Soundgarden played. I mean, they both had horns and I had not even heard of "Guild" at that point. It would be years layer that I learned my mistake reading that his model was actually a Guild Polara S-100. Oh well.
For a few years now, I've kept this on my wish list over at Sweetwater. A few months back, I saw that it was on sale but had too many other distractions in life to seriously consider one. I did not realize that the sale was to clear out inventory and SW would not restock. Sigh.
Well, last week I saw that SW had a new guitar in stock. A Guild Polara, to be exact. Actually, it was a Kim Thayil signature model! Yeah, the signature is a stamp, but whatever. It has a few Soundgarden design finfishes on the headstock and tone knobs so I'm good with that. There were two. I ordered one, and I am geeky excited. I expect this will become my default player. I doubt it will ever be a collector's item, but who knows. At least I now have closure in this footnote of my life.
Pics from the storefront site: