Jefemaximo
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Sorry if this has been posted before, but I didn't find it with a search.
Mandolin Brothers is selling a GSR F-40 and have a glowing review of the guitar and the work being done in New Hartford.
Text below. Link is http://www.mandoweb.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=1708
The Guild Company recently hosted a special symposium at their new factory in Connecticut in September and we were invited. We are impressed beyond all expectations – they are building guitars by hand, in much the same way as they did in the mid-1950s. Wait until you hear the new US-made Guild guitars! You will not believe how incredible they sound and how beautiful they are crafted. At the symposium, which was attended by highest level Guild Guitar dealers from all over the USA, they offered a singular instrument – a model they had last made at the very beginning of the Guild Company history -- for flattops that would be 1954. It is the Small Jumbo F-40, but this one has woods and features that no other Guild guitar has. Behold the Grand Orchestra body size, measuring 15 ¾” in body width, having a 1 11/16th nut width (that’s 43mm) and a string spacing at the bridge of 2 1/8th”. The depth at the bottom side is 4 5/16th”. Even if it doesn’t we would think that the designation “GSR” means “Guild Special Reserve” or something like that. Its easy-to-hold body is made from Solid Carpathian “Red” Spruce (we call it “Transylvania Adirondack”) for the black-crème-black bordered top, and solid Cocobolo (a tropical tonewood from Central American), which is beyond words beautiful, for the back and sides. The sides are bound in grained ivoroid; the back has no center stripe and so the wood appears to be one-piece of dark chocolate grain against a reddish brown background – but of course it is bookmatched. The bridge she is carved of ebony and the bridge & end pins are unique (at least to us) appearing (they look like) fossil ivory each bearing a circle of gold and an abalone dot. The back of the neck, being “low oval,” is three piece – being mahogany-walnut-mahogany. The tuners are also unique to us being heavily gold-plated with open gears, and ivoroid buttons each of which is impressed with the Guild “G” logo. Guild provides a gold-plated strap lock, mounted into a metal threaded tube, on the bass side of the body near the neck. Guild’s internal label says: “Crafted in New Hartford, CT and Made to be Played” and we need to tell you that they’re not kidding.
Just so you know - on their remarkable sounding new Connecticut-made D-40 and D-50 models Guild uses Adirondack spruce and we gotta tell ya – these instruemnts give other famous brands’ dreadnoughts that are twice as expensive a run for the money. What we have here is a rare Guild model, made from equally rare, desirable and beautiful tonewoods, that is unique in many ways. To see it is soul stirring, to play it, divine.
Mandolin Brothers is selling a GSR F-40 and have a glowing review of the guitar and the work being done in New Hartford.
Text below. Link is http://www.mandoweb.com/Item.aspx?ItemID=1708
The Guild Company recently hosted a special symposium at their new factory in Connecticut in September and we were invited. We are impressed beyond all expectations – they are building guitars by hand, in much the same way as they did in the mid-1950s. Wait until you hear the new US-made Guild guitars! You will not believe how incredible they sound and how beautiful they are crafted. At the symposium, which was attended by highest level Guild Guitar dealers from all over the USA, they offered a singular instrument – a model they had last made at the very beginning of the Guild Company history -- for flattops that would be 1954. It is the Small Jumbo F-40, but this one has woods and features that no other Guild guitar has. Behold the Grand Orchestra body size, measuring 15 ¾” in body width, having a 1 11/16th nut width (that’s 43mm) and a string spacing at the bridge of 2 1/8th”. The depth at the bottom side is 4 5/16th”. Even if it doesn’t we would think that the designation “GSR” means “Guild Special Reserve” or something like that. Its easy-to-hold body is made from Solid Carpathian “Red” Spruce (we call it “Transylvania Adirondack”) for the black-crème-black bordered top, and solid Cocobolo (a tropical tonewood from Central American), which is beyond words beautiful, for the back and sides. The sides are bound in grained ivoroid; the back has no center stripe and so the wood appears to be one-piece of dark chocolate grain against a reddish brown background – but of course it is bookmatched. The bridge she is carved of ebony and the bridge & end pins are unique (at least to us) appearing (they look like) fossil ivory each bearing a circle of gold and an abalone dot. The back of the neck, being “low oval,” is three piece – being mahogany-walnut-mahogany. The tuners are also unique to us being heavily gold-plated with open gears, and ivoroid buttons each of which is impressed with the Guild “G” logo. Guild provides a gold-plated strap lock, mounted into a metal threaded tube, on the bass side of the body near the neck. Guild’s internal label says: “Crafted in New Hartford, CT and Made to be Played” and we need to tell you that they’re not kidding.
Just so you know - on their remarkable sounding new Connecticut-made D-40 and D-50 models Guild uses Adirondack spruce and we gotta tell ya – these instruemnts give other famous brands’ dreadnoughts that are twice as expensive a run for the money. What we have here is a rare Guild model, made from equally rare, desirable and beautiful tonewoods, that is unique in many ways. To see it is soul stirring, to play it, divine.
Thanks for posting THAT Jefe....That review was great to read...and great to know is the case! Great news for GUILD,... and us all. 
