Our local Guild dealer here in South Puget Sound is down to one Tacoma built Guild (D40BJ) in inventory & half a dozen GADS. And...since they have heard zippo, as in zero, from Fender/Guild concerning future availability are talking a bit negatively about continuing to stock the line. Fortunately for Guild, I shared some of the definite rumours available only via our insider network. Criminy, I don't know nuthin either but I told em anyway.
Likely a pretty smoking deal could be had on the remaning D40. Nice guitar, I played it again yesterday for some time. Twas my birthday & I treated myself to about 90 minutes playing a bunch of their guitars, till Red tracked me down, dragged me away, took me out & got me drunk. (easier than it might sound, I'm kind of a lightweight boozer) My opinion, the D40 they have runs with the big guns, Lordy, seems Taylor 12 strings were never built to be played in public unplugged.
Played an absolutely georgeous Maple GAD, fantastic figured (flame) maple body & sides. Felt compelled to look inside & see where they installed the socks or whatever sound muffling media they used. Darned thing's not even close to the D40. Pretty though, the socks must be attached to the underside of the soundboard requiring a mirror for inspection. GAD50 was better, my opinion, (other than looks), money would be better spent on a Plywood Westerly.
Upside to this story is they have a verra nice silk (prolly not real silk) Guild banner hanging on the wall where there used to be Guild's displayed & it may become obsolete. I spent several minutes licking the banner, front & back, I'm pretty sure none of the employees want it now.