Walter Broes
Enlightened Member
Funny huh. I would have gladly paid a little more for my F47 if it'd had that guard.That horsehead + horseshoe pickguard would have to come off immediately, IF I even bought that guitar!
Funny huh. I would have gladly paid a little more for my F47 if it'd had that guard.That horsehead + horseshoe pickguard would have to come off immediately, IF I even bought that guitar!
Craig, you completely misunderstood what we talked about! You really need to read what we wrote and look at the picture to understand what we talked about. We did NOT talk about the pickguard shape at all. Take a few minutes and read back post #110.I think the pick guard criticism is absurd (or maybe that was the original intent).
Welcome to LTG Wayne! I have been a lot in all over California for business and always tried to find new shops with Guilds...I think Southern Cali is Taylor's home area, so indeed it is hard to find shops in your area that carry (new) Guilds at all. Mark's Guitar Exchange (3233 Midway Dr. in SD and 945 Ste G Otay Lakes Rd, Chula Vista) is an official Guild dealer for instance, but I don't know if he carries anything in store nowadays. The next one is Buffalo Guitars in Carlsbad, Guitar Shoppe in Laguna Beach, and there are a few places in LA that carry some Guilds. But it is tough to find any in California in general, I agree. It is better in the Bay area, there are a few shops in the Silicon Valley area that carry them.It has been decades since I've seen a Guild in a shop here, or an ad that indicates that a store carries the Guild brand. Perhaps representation is better in other parts of the country?
I didn't know this. I did a quick search but there is no info on the web so far. When I was there last year they had no US made Guilds as far as I remember. They had quite a few Chinese made GAD series in the shop however, here are a few pictures from February 2014:Unfortunately, Buffalo Bros in Carlsbad is closing in less than two weeks, I hear.
"Advice to the new owners of the brand"... Perhaps a new post should have been started up about whatever the point was with that pick guard statement. How much can you expect the new owners of Guild to get out of some of this, or perhaps me for that matter- I like knowing what my esteemed peers here on LTG think about it all (sometimes).Craig, you completely misunderstood what we talked about! You really need to read what we wrote and look at the picture to understand what we talked about. We did NOT talk about the pickguard shape at all. Take a few minutes and read back post #110.
Ralf
Yes it is quite the thing isn't it. Veer on my friends.Come on Craig, you know how much we like to veer ! :triumphant:
Ralf
Considering that my advice would have been to (a) find a way to keep Ren Ferguson aboard, and (b) take as many people and as much stuff from New Hartford as possible, I'd say today was a good day.
...... I thought with Ren Ferguson (from Gibson) on board at NH, that surely that old decorative horse / horseshoe pickguard would somehow find its way home on the F-47. Oh well.....