all-mahogany or spruce or rosewood-twelvies!!

[marcellis]

For my music - Maple is the best tone wood for recording.
It's the easiest to capture on the mic. It records true every time.
Rosewood is the most difficult. But it may sound the best to the ear.
It's hard to capture that sound on microphone. At least that has been
my experience on my own compositions.

My experience on Mahogany is that it is hit or miss. Sometimes it
records brilliantly. Sometimes - it's not right for the recording.

All of my recordings the past three years have used Maple B&S guitars.
That's because they record the truest in my experience.

 

[jp]

Hej Gäddmusik!

Welcome to LTG! I wish I could help offer meaningful advice, but I have yet to score a much desired Guild acoustic (F-20, M-20, or D-25). So I must satisfy myself with my Guild archtops for a period until the right deal comes along.

There are a few other Swedes hanging around here too. I'm just married to one and lived there a period of years. Northern Sweden is beautiful and the people are wonderful. I've spent a bit of time around Östersund.

Music is a great way to keep sane during the dark winter.

Godjul!
jp :mrgreen:

 

[Pikemusic]

Nej, men Tjena JP!

Vad kul att du skriver på Svenska!!!

My nickname Pikemusic is simply because my second interest after my profession as a composer is to cook....and chose proper wines for the food I cook.

My favourite fish is sweetwater-pike, and I always fish them at early springtime just after ice-break in the small rivers outside Vittangi and Kiruna in the utmost north of Sweden 200 kilometers above the arctic circle......Just grill the pike briefly with some sprigs of juniper inside, some very hot chili-peppers, a little salt, and enjoy with pasta and french Bourgogne redwine....I think a Bourgogne from Beune would fit properly...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to JP and everyone at LTG!!!!!

Jens(Pikemusic) northern Sweden

 

[Guildmark]

......Just grill the pike briefly with some sprigs of juniper inside, some very hot chili-peppers, a little salt, and enjoy with pasta and french Bourgogne redwine....I think a Bourgogne from Beune would fit properly...

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to JP and everyone at LTG!!!!!

Jens(Pikemusic) northern Sweden

Sounds delicious! Might try it if I can locate the local "Above The Arctic Circle" store. :shock:
I asked a guy once what juniper is.
He said, "It's that planet out there next to Saniturn."
:roll:

 

[capnjuan]

.... Just grill the pike briefly with some sprigs of juniper inside, some very hot chili-peppers, a little salt, and enjoy with pasta and french Bourgogne redwine....

Hi Jens; a half a pound of Chilean Sea Bass, marinated in lemon juice and fresh ginger, grilled on the Weber with asparagus and two bottles of Erath Pinot Gris ....! CJ

 

[emswife]

Hello all.

I am another new member to LTG and would like to join in this discussion.

I own a 1988 D-15M which denotes it as all mahogany including the top. It was purchased at a Guitar Center for just under $1000 in 1988 and came with the hard case.

Twenty years later and it is still the only all mahogany D-15 I have ever seen. Dallas is not a Guild town and the only other Guiild I saw was a Starfire that kept going in and out the door of the Guitar Center to the same guy who would "buy" it, thrash it onstage for 30 days and then return it for the full refund. He did this numerous times and yet each time, I checked on the price, it never went down. Typical Guitar Center...

I have seen one all mahogany Guild 12 string with white binding in a Tom Petty video contained on the DVD "Playback". I am not sure if it is a D-15 or D-17. But it is a 12 string.

CAn anybody give me any info on two things:
1) Has anyone else seen this guitar used by Tom and can you flesh out the guitar in any way?
2) Why are (rather were) such limited numbers of the D-15M and the 12 string?

My Guild jsut gets better sounding as the mahogany ages. My son has clained it as his legacy which I will gladly agree with as a fine guitar is real treasure.

Thanks!

Patrick

 

[GardMan]

I have seen one all mahogany Guild 12 string with white binding in a Tom Petty video contained on the DVD "Playback". I am not sure if it is a D-15 or D-17. But it is a 12 string.

CAn anybody give me any info on two things:
1) Has anyone else seen this guitar used by Tom and can you flesh out the guitar in any way?
2) Why are (rather were) such limited numbers of the D-15M and the 12 string?

Patrick... First, Welcome to LTG! I can't really answer your questions... but here is a link to a D-17 (w pic). I would assume the D-17-12 looked pretty similar.

Don't know why they made so few of the all 'hog 12ers... perhaps they just didn't sell well at the time (compared to spruce topped 'hog and rosewood b/s). It also surprises me that, given the popularity of their maple bodied jumbo 12ers and the maple bodied dreads (the G-37 and D-30), that they never made a maple-bodied 12 string dreadnaught (or if they did, I can't find any mention of it).
Dave

 

[hansmoust]

I have seen one all mahogany Guild 12 string with white binding in a Tom Petty video contained on the DVD "Playback". I am not sure if it is a D-15 or D-17. But it is a 12 string.

Has anyone else seen this guitar used by Tom and can you flesh out the guitar in any way?

Hello Patrick,

Tom Petty has been using a Guild D-212 string for many years. I'm not sure if that is the guitar you've seen in the video, but here's a photo of him playing the D-212.

Now the D-212 is not an all-mahogany guitar. It's basically a twelve string version of the D-25 and it has a spruce top; in this case a tinted spruce top, so the proper model designation would be D-212M. It also doesn't have white binding but the contrasting purfling lines might have given you the impression of white binding.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[emswife]

Thanks, Hans. I knew if you gave me an answer, there would be good detail (ihave been doing some reading on this forum and it seems you are the go-to guy for info)!

I believe that is the guitar. The tinting indeed makes it look all mahogany.

So, Hans, I guess my main question, at this point, would be:

Was there an all mahogany Guild 12 string that would be a match to my D-15M?

Thanks for the warm welcome all.

 

[hansmoust]

I guess my main question, at this point, would be: Was there an all mahogany Guild 12 string that would be a match to my D-15M?

Yes, that would be the D-15-12 or the D-17-12. If you go back to the beginning of this thread you will read about those.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
http://www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[Ted Hechtman]

Just wanted to mention that I just bought a 1974 D 212-NT. One happy camper!!!!