New Neighbor Guild Tale

[GC]

Our new neighbors invited us to a barbecue and I brought along one of my Guilds, just in case. During the course of the day I explained that I had a preference for Guilds going back over 40 yrs. My neighbor then explained that he also had a Guild he had gotten in the mid 80s and proceeded to bring out an X-79. He told me that he had been hired for a modeling job and had to pose with it for an Onkyo ad. Guild, upon seeing the ad, used the picture of him with the guitar on the cover of their catalog that year. The company that originally hired him then gave him the guitar. Ironically, he doesn't play guitar, so it has virtually sat in the case for all these years.

He recently told me he would like to sell it. He has the poster for the Onkyo ad. I don't know if he has the Guild catalog. The question is, does the fact that this guitar is the actual one used in the ad and is on the catalog effect the value in any way? The OHSC is also included.

 

[killdeer43]

Doesn't do anything for me.

Joe :wink:

 

[taabru45]

Not unless his name is Brad Pitt....

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Guild ad referenced:

Cool story!

 

[fronobulax]

He recently told me he would like to sell it. He has the poster for the Onkyo ad. I don't know if he has the Guild catalog. The question is, does the fact that this guitar is the actual one used in the ad and is on the catalog effect the value in any way? The OHSC is also included.

Might be worth $25 more if copies of ad and catalog came along with some kind of detailed note describing the photo shoot and repeating the claim that it is the same guitar. Now before you try and take this to the bank, a lot of folks sell original ads on ebay (pages cut from magazines) and get $5-$10 and original Guild catalogs can go for $5-$25 or more depending upon year and condition.

BINs for X-79's on eBay are in the $1,500 range which I think is high by at least a factor of two. But even in the $600-$800 range I doubt that being on a catalog cover will enhance the price.

Neat story though.

 

[Thunderface]

Cool story. You should take photos of it and post it. Someone here might be interested, especially if it has been unplayed all those years.

Our new neighbors invited us to a barbecue and I brought along one of my Guilds, just in case.

GC, Why can't I have neighbors like you?

 

[walrus]

For a guy who doesn't play guitar, he's got the "Pete Townsend pose" down pat!!

walrus

 

[Default]

Ok, that got my attention!

Used to have both the Onkyo ad and that catalog! Pics would be great!

 

[GC]

Thanks Grot for the posting of the catalog. I've seen the Onkyo poster but not that; and it definitely is him (albeit 25 or so yrs younger). I was really surprised by the prices on Ebay. I would never have thought someone would ask that much. Of course, getting it is something else. I'm going to pass this on to him and maybe we can get some pics of the guitar.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Just to further the story. Here is the inside of the catalog cover where Guild thanks Onkyo for the use of the ad.

 

[fronobulax]

Somehow in all this I forgot that Onkyo made electronics. And what is the device alluded to in the ad? What's a cassette deck? :wink:



(I have one. Still plugged in to an audio chain. Have not used it several years).

 

[GC]

I spoke to him yesterday and got some more info. It appears that the guitar, while not played for many years, was used by a musician friend of the owner for a short time. Thus, it is not mint but still very good. While the Ebay prices are quite high (outrageously so I think), my neighbor says he will keep it unless he can get an offer in that range. I have a feeling he'll be keeping it.

By the way, last month I picked up a GAD-30 sunburst through Craigslist to use as my travel guitar. I had been using a Little Martin since '07 but found it unsatisfying. The import fills the bill quite nicely. This guitar was purchased new 4 yrs ago by a woman who never learned to play and it was basically a new 4 yr old guitar. It still had the original strings on it. They were so oxidized that my fingers couldn't slide over them. A string change and some minor set-up work and I'm good to go. This increases my Guild stable to seven. It seems the more I try to find an alternative, I always come back to Guild.

 

[silverfox103]

I still have my Onkyo tape deck, similar to what's pictured, only mine has 2 decks. It's gotta be 27, 28 years old. Still works good, but I took mine out of the chain last year.

Anyone remember what a cassette is?

Tom C.

 

[GC]

I still have some unopened. Are they collectable if they're still in the wrapper? I had a beautiful Kenwood with auto reverse that I loved. It could change direction so smoothly and quietly that you would hardly notice. Unlike the Pioneer that I have now. It sounds like an 18 wheeler downshifting.

 

[Ravon]

I still have my Onkyo tape deck, similar to what's pictured, only mine has 2 decks. It's gotta be 27, 28 years old. Still works good, but I took mine out of the chain last year.

Anyone remember what a cassette is?

Tom C.

Sounds like a girls name. Just what is this thing people call "cassette"?

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

I now have my casette deck plugged into my computer an I'm making mp3's of all the cool original stuff I have on tape!

I downloaded a free program, (Audio Recorder Free) for recording. http://www.gilisoft.com/downloads.htm

I also have hours of live band stuff from through the years!

 

[CA-35]

I still have some unopened. Are they collectable if they're still in the wrapper? I had a beautiful Kenwood with auto reverse that I loved. It could change direction so smoothly and quietly that you would hardly notice. Unlike the Pioneer that I have now. It sounds like an 18 wheeler downshifting.

They are not downshifting....they're "jake braking". A jake brake is a solenoid that when activated clamps down on the exhaust valves of the motor. So in essence it bogs down the cylinders with it's own unreleased exhaust pressure. Sounds like downshifting, noisy as hell, but it isn't.

 

[Ross]

I now have my casette deck plugged into my computer an I'm making mp3's of all the cool original stuff I have on tape!

I downloaded a free program, (Audio Recorder Free) for recording. http://www.gilisoft.com/downloads.htm

Wow- thanks for posting this. I'll give it a try. I too have a stack of cassettes that I want to digitize.

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Ross,

You'll need one of these:

It goes from the casette deck to the 'audio in' on the back of the computer.

It's really easy, all you really need to do is make sure you get your input recording levels set correctly in the recording program.

I had found a bunch of recordings of me from some open mikes I played. Maybe I'll post a few if you're lucky (?) :lol: