Guild Headstocks

[adorshki]

Anyone ever acquired a Guild at a yard sale?
Wontox
'70 D 40 and several heathen guitars

One of our newest members came close:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20912
See his second post about halfway down the page...

 

[adorshki]

I barter for old analog electronic stuff.

Like "belts" and "needles"? :lol:

 

[wontox]

Yeah, his twenty-dollar Guild beats my sixty-five dollar Guild three times over. Love the part about it being under beer cans and shoes.

Wontox

 

[adorshki]

Yeah, his twenty-dollar Guild beats my sixty-five dollar Guild three times over. Love the part about it being under beer cans and shoes.
Wontox

BUT did you see the part about the $900.00 model with the inlays at a yardsale, what might have been a Firebird Fantasia by that description...you can see one on Westerlyguildguitars. I don't expect to ever see one in real life.... :shock:

 

[bluesypicky]

Yeah, his twenty-dollar Guild beats my sixty-five dollar Guild three times over. Wontox

Maybe.... but he hasn't come up with a better fart story yet. :wink:

 

[West R Lee]

Back to headstocks...

Some of the tapered headstocks are pretty nice.. :wink:

Show off!

West

 

[Dadaist]

I'm not so sure about headstock diameter and tone, as among the Guilds I own at present
only two, an '89 D50 SB and a '94 GV 70 are of the narrow variety. I've played both pre and post Grunhn-Walker guitars (I may be mistaken, but it seems that the change occurred on their watch) of the same model, and my wizened ears couldn't tell the difference.

I always thought that the "snakehead" headstocks were a bit of homage to Stromberg who used that design on their guitars. Maybe G-W were trying to start with a clean slate? Hans
might have some insight into it.

Again, all of this is really subjective, but I tend to like the more symmetrical narrow to wide headstock. It just looks correct and it's probably not an accident that they retained the "old style" on F50s and D55s.

David

 

[GardMan]

Back to headstocks...

Some of the tapered headstocks are pretty nice.. :wink:

Hey FNG... What's that beautiful headstock on? I can't recal ever seeing a Chesterfield and fret markers like those. Thx, Dave

 

[West R Lee]

Back to headstocks...

Some of the tapered headstocks are pretty nice.. :wink:

Hey FNG... What's that beautiful headstock on? I can't recal ever seeing a Chesterfield and fret markers like those. Thx, Dave

It's a Deco Dave.

West

 

[adorshki]

I'm not a fan of the smaller headstock that is on some Guilds.
It just doesn't look like a Guild to me.
What models and years have the smaller headstock?

I can tell you ALL of mine feature tapered headstock. Tapered headstock can be an acquired taste. Especially if you own some! :lol:

I must confess to making a gross error here. I was bonding with the D40 this weekend and remembered this thread, and to my extreme embarrassment realized my CORONA D40 has a wide headstock! Spend so much time lookin' at the fretboard it never really registered. Interestingly, although it has the "roof top logo" and the chesterfield, it has no binding. Does kind of make it easy to miss that it's wide, but it's very subtle.