Hi folks
Great to stumble upon this forum having just this week purchased a X700 Stuart. I normally play fingerstyle nylon guitar (a Taylor) but when I was asked to try the Guild I was bowled over. I had the loan of the guitar for two weeks and did a number of gigs with it and just loved it. The serial number is AK700276 I am assuming it is a 1998 looking at other posts on this forum.
I have found it hard to place a value on this guitar as most past sales have been in the USA at around 2.5k dollars. If you convert that into pounds Stirling it would be £1500!! That would not buy you much in the carved archtop market in the UK. So not really sure how this all works. I probably paid too much for mine at £2700. I have not found anything else cheaper which I like but love the guitar so maybe that is all that matters!!
I am fortunate enough to live near Martin Taylor in Scotland who is many of you will know is one the finest solo fingerstyle jazz guitarists in the world. I went over to his house and he put some nice strings on it for me and set it up for me and it plays like a dream now. I put a clip on YouTube of me playing "With A Song In My Heart" it is only one of two clips of x700 on YouTube so should be easy to find if fancy a listen.
I will be using the guitar on gigs so thinking about how I might protect the back from buckle\button and scratch plate or do I just go with the flow and accept it will get marked eventually as a working instrument
Anyway looking forward to reading all your posts over the coming months
Cheers
Marcus
Great to stumble upon this forum having just this week purchased a X700 Stuart. I normally play fingerstyle nylon guitar (a Taylor) but when I was asked to try the Guild I was bowled over. I had the loan of the guitar for two weeks and did a number of gigs with it and just loved it. The serial number is AK700276 I am assuming it is a 1998 looking at other posts on this forum.
I have found it hard to place a value on this guitar as most past sales have been in the USA at around 2.5k dollars. If you convert that into pounds Stirling it would be £1500!! That would not buy you much in the carved archtop market in the UK. So not really sure how this all works. I probably paid too much for mine at £2700. I have not found anything else cheaper which I like but love the guitar so maybe that is all that matters!!
I am fortunate enough to live near Martin Taylor in Scotland who is many of you will know is one the finest solo fingerstyle jazz guitarists in the world. I went over to his house and he put some nice strings on it for me and set it up for me and it plays like a dream now. I put a clip on YouTube of me playing "With A Song In My Heart" it is only one of two clips of x700 on YouTube so should be easy to find if fancy a listen.
I will be using the guitar on gigs so thinking about how I might protect the back from buckle\button and scratch plate or do I just go with the flow and accept it will get marked eventually as a working instrument
Anyway looking forward to reading all your posts over the coming months
Cheers
Marcus