adorshki
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Wonderful review, thanks!
GREAT name! (Used to be one of my hobbies around here)
Interesting note about s/n vs tuners as the '96 catalog shows 'em with chrome (And A25's with "Ivoroid"),
but '97 catalog does show 'em with show gold, (and A25's with chrome) and apparently their gold tuners didn't have the "G" in the center:
('93 F65ce for comparo):
And see same ones on a '98 JF65.
Suspect the pieces in the '96 catalog must have been very early production or even prototypes since catalogs typically had to start being laid out for printing several months in advance.
Kinda surprised at: "Not a great strummer only in that like my ex-Martin the bass and overtones build upon themselves and muddies up a bit."
That's supposed to be a weakness of archbacks but also supposed to be a characteristic of rosewood (the overtones), so maybe that's why it was considered "sub-par" by some. I've also suspected it's why use of rosewood for arched backs is so uncommon.
Funny that the F30R doesn't seem to suffer the same rep, figure it's gotta be bracing.
I note catalog shows "standard bracing" for those.
I did see Hideglue's comment that they were considered great for Nashville tuning
How deep is the body?
And I keep forgetting about those fret markers, sweet detail.
RE s/n's, wouldn't surprise me if there really were only 209 of 'em, since they only appear in the '96 and '97 catalogs.
In case you haven't seen GAD's "archive" yet, you might like this:
https://www.gad.net/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Guild-1997-Catalog-Acoustic.pdf
GREAT name! (Used to be one of my hobbies around here)
Interesting note about s/n vs tuners as the '96 catalog shows 'em with chrome (And A25's with "Ivoroid"),
but '97 catalog does show 'em with show gold, (and A25's with chrome) and apparently their gold tuners didn't have the "G" in the center:
('93 F65ce for comparo):
And see same ones on a '98 JF65.
Suspect the pieces in the '96 catalog must have been very early production or even prototypes since catalogs typically had to start being laid out for printing several months in advance.
Kinda surprised at: "Not a great strummer only in that like my ex-Martin the bass and overtones build upon themselves and muddies up a bit."
That's supposed to be a weakness of archbacks but also supposed to be a characteristic of rosewood (the overtones), so maybe that's why it was considered "sub-par" by some. I've also suspected it's why use of rosewood for arched backs is so uncommon.
Funny that the F30R doesn't seem to suffer the same rep, figure it's gotta be bracing.
I note catalog shows "standard bracing" for those.
I did see Hideglue's comment that they were considered great for Nashville tuning
How deep is the body?
And I keep forgetting about those fret markers, sweet detail.
RE s/n's, wouldn't surprise me if there really were only 209 of 'em, since they only appear in the '96 and '97 catalogs.
In case you haven't seen GAD's "archive" yet, you might like this:
https://www.gad.net/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Guild-1997-Catalog-Acoustic.pdf
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