theflyingturtle
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First off the "zenith of mongoloid reasoning" is from Woody Allen so I cannot take credit for that one. Regardless, since I recently joined the forum I have intended to get a Guild. I wasn't sure which one but I knew I could do some research on this site to help me make up my mind. After scouring through this site and checking online reviews it became clear that just about any Guild I could find would probably be a good guitar. There might be "duds" out there or models that were generally disliked but I didn't come across any. Admittedly I did have my eye on a JF-55 since that was the guitar John Denver use to play but that wasn't set in stone. So come across a DV-52E comes up for sale locally on CL. The online reviews are glowing so I go check it out. It has a partial crack at the neck that has been repaired, it is strung with 13s, the action is high but everything appears stable, it has the ugly pick up knobs but the price is right, and it sounds heavenly! My first impression is how loud it is and how elegant it sounds compared to what I am use to so the next day after I go to the bank it comes home with me and I am happy. But then I take it to my luthier for a set up and while I am there he has some consignment guitars so I pick up a couple of them to kill time. The Martin HD sounds great but V necks and I don not ever get along. The Gibson Gospel is nice but no better than my J45 but feels familiar. I pass up trying the Fender since Fender, to my knowledge, has never made a fine acoustic. Yes I know they own Guild but... Well you know what I mean. Then my luthier tells me that I really should try the Fender. He says he thinks that might be perfect for me? Well... O.K. I pick it up and play and everything that comes out of it is beautiful. Not good, but beautiful. All of a sudden the price is not important anymore. It doesn't matter if I bought another guitar two days before, this is "the one" that I have been looking for. I thought the wife would be bothered but no. She knows that when the "the one" shows up, it shows up. The timing could be a little better but it is what it is. It is a SB-35 whatever that is but it looks like a Guild with a Fender headstock. Fingerpicked it is very rich sounding and generous and it strums better than I had hoped. The DV on the other is a cannon. It is going to make me a better singer since I have to push harder to keep up with it. Here is the shot.