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but Jeff, is it a 2.0?
Hi Bernie: Only Oxnard builds will have the "F-512 Maple" designation, as they don't use the "F412" model number. Prior to that, F412's were (archback) maple by definition, and '512's were flat-back rosewood. JF30-12's were also maple archbacks, kind of an economy version of the F412.Thanks Ralf SF IV, good information...I'm mostly interested in the relationship between woods used for backs & sides, and corresponging 12 strings guitars' tone ; David Gilmour is currently seen promoting his Martin Custom Signature models (on Martin's Facebook), and after listening to him playing 'Wish you were here' on it, I thought that I liked his recording of it with this Guild better (the new Martin is a D-35 -Martin- lnspired dread with Sinker mahogany back and sides)...Between tonewoods, formats various building techiques used and brands, not so easy find one's way...
Al had told me about Guild 12 strings' tonewoods, but I don't remember thread's title, sorry... (I see there are F-512s maple, and F-412s - maple - humm, tricky one ! ).
Thanks Micky, and all other posrtive imputs.
Not exactly me, Bernie was the one restarting it and asking the new question on Thursday this week.Thread resurrection! I love when this happens...
So Bernie makes the last post before COVID hit, Dec 2019. and Ralf answers a question in March of 2021. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH
I guess I should be scolded, I don't count electrics as guitars.I am a newcomer to the Guild family : I hadn't paid much attention in recent years to who was playing Guild acoustics as I was more after Martins, Taylors or Gibsons at the time, and luthiers' made guitares too... Till I came across some guitars sold with an important discount in a shop, a few months ago. Makes that are not very famous here...And I got a Guild guitar again : I remembered how good they were (I've had one for a while a long time ago), and jumped on the opportunity...
So now I wonder about artists I may have been listening to, that played Guild guitars, or/and still do...I know that Richie Havens had been playing a D-40, I've seen that Eric Clapton has been advertising for the make some years ago : he'd been pictured with some Jumbo sized guitar, an F-50 or something...But who else ?
You guys here, have probably been discussing these things many times on the forum...But if you don't mind talking a bit more about it, I'll be happy to learn some more...
Thanks
Bernie
Yes, the arched back is laminated wood but the sides were solid maple on the Tacoma built F-412.One thing I wonder still, since David Gilmour's 12 strings was a F-412; it had an archback then, right ? Must have been laminated back and sides too...
This guitar wasn't the one used on the song Wish You Were Here original recording then, since that was recorded somewhere in the 70s...Was D. Gilmour using an other Guild then, or a Martin as a video presenting his Custom Signature 12 strings model seems to imply- ?It's maple, so a F-412. Rosewood was never color finished on the back and sides.
And if you are really curious, that is the label of that very guitar, so she was a 2006 Tacoma made one.
David does not own her anymore, he sold her in 2019. And now hold on, guess what price she sold for?
USD 87,500 !!! Yes, eightyseventhousandfivehundred!
Ralf
Since Minnesota Flats re-opend that old thread I realized that I never answered your question from 2021! He used his 1971 Martin D12-28 with S/N 290452 and his 1969 Martin D-35 with S/N 244869.This guitar wasn't the one used on the song Wish You Were Here original recording then, since that was recorded somewhere in the 70s...Was D. Gilmour using an other Guild then, or a Martin as a video presenting his Custom Signature 12 strings model seems to imply- ?
Since Minnesota Flats re-opend that old thread...
What he sold in the 2019 auction were his 2006 F-412 (TJ114003) and 2007 F-512 (TK030009).David Gilmour has owned multiple Guild 12 strings, both F-412 and F-512. I don't know all the specifics, and doubt anyone really does. I would certianly guess he had at least one, long before that 2006 F-412 was built, but I really don't know. "Wish You Were Here" on the live album "Pulse" from the mid 90's, sounds to me like an F-412...but that is just speculation
Maybe Takoma is British spelling for Tacoma. I'll let the anglophones weigh in.No one at the auction house bothered to look up how to spell "Tacoma"?!
His guitar auction, was I believe, held in New York, so it appears you colonials can’t spell.Maybe Takoma is British spelling for Tacoma. I'll let the anglophones weigh in.