Some good friends of mine who happen to be Martin sluts found this in a music store in a Detroit Suburb. The owner had been an older fella and he passed away. His kids apparently wanted none of his guitars and brought everything he owned to this store to sell on consignment. This one hadn't sold in a while and the price was pretty good, especially for a Brazilian Rosewood piece.
My friends know I'm heavily into Guild and wanted to give a vintage piece a try so they bought this. Shortly after, the fella came down with some health issues and was forced to let go of quite a bit of gear. They had promised me 1st shot at it and they sold it to me for what they had into it.
ATTENTION TRC POLICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eric has already alerted me the TRC is on backwards so don't send out a posse to have me arrested or anything like that. I'll get around to it sooner or later but it's never been a hot button for me so no rush.
The guitar has plenty of wear on the Spruce top but surprisingly no cracks and the neck angle was also very good. Not perfect but certainly acceptable. The sides are really in great shape.It did have a fairly nasty crack in the back. I hooked up with a new guitar repair guy and he fixed the crack, dressed the frets, installed a new saddle, installed new medium gauge strings, installed new bridge pins and set it up to my liking.
I've always loved a D 50 and personally prefer them to the more popular D 55. I'm likely in the minority here but I just do. I also have the 50th Anniversary D 55 in Brazilian Rosewood and a Taylor 714 in Brazilian as well. This D 50 smokes them both IMHO. Of course, the D 55 50th Anniversary is in pretty minty condition and the Taylor is in great shape as well. But I'm usually more about the sound/tone and great cosmetics are typically an added bonus for me.
It has an absolutely huge voice and a big low end but not at all muddy. In fact, it's really nicely balanced. I can say that the sustain on this D 50 is incredible. It just goes on and on and on...........................
One thing I noticed is that the bridge is Rosewood (not sure if Brazilian or not) and of course the fingerboard is Ebony. I'm assuming it didn't come out of the factory like that and that at some point it was likely changed. If any of you know different let me know. I'm absolutely fine with it, just curious. It came in a HSC with no Guild bading so I don't know if it's original or not. It has the older style latches so I'm sure it's an older type case. It also has the Halloween Orange plush interior. Again, if anyone has any input on that I'd appreciate that as well. The case just stunk really, really bad. My guitar guy and I have both worked diligently on it and it's much better but certainly not where I want it. So, I'll likely store it in another case until I get that worked out.
Eric will be along at some point to post some pics for me (Thanks Again Eric). If the pics suck blame me not Eric. He can only work with what I send him.
My friends know I'm heavily into Guild and wanted to give a vintage piece a try so they bought this. Shortly after, the fella came down with some health issues and was forced to let go of quite a bit of gear. They had promised me 1st shot at it and they sold it to me for what they had into it.
ATTENTION TRC POLICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eric has already alerted me the TRC is on backwards so don't send out a posse to have me arrested or anything like that. I'll get around to it sooner or later but it's never been a hot button for me so no rush.
The guitar has plenty of wear on the Spruce top but surprisingly no cracks and the neck angle was also very good. Not perfect but certainly acceptable. The sides are really in great shape.It did have a fairly nasty crack in the back. I hooked up with a new guitar repair guy and he fixed the crack, dressed the frets, installed a new saddle, installed new medium gauge strings, installed new bridge pins and set it up to my liking.
I've always loved a D 50 and personally prefer them to the more popular D 55. I'm likely in the minority here but I just do. I also have the 50th Anniversary D 55 in Brazilian Rosewood and a Taylor 714 in Brazilian as well. This D 50 smokes them both IMHO. Of course, the D 55 50th Anniversary is in pretty minty condition and the Taylor is in great shape as well. But I'm usually more about the sound/tone and great cosmetics are typically an added bonus for me.
It has an absolutely huge voice and a big low end but not at all muddy. In fact, it's really nicely balanced. I can say that the sustain on this D 50 is incredible. It just goes on and on and on...........................
One thing I noticed is that the bridge is Rosewood (not sure if Brazilian or not) and of course the fingerboard is Ebony. I'm assuming it didn't come out of the factory like that and that at some point it was likely changed. If any of you know different let me know. I'm absolutely fine with it, just curious. It came in a HSC with no Guild bading so I don't know if it's original or not. It has the older style latches so I'm sure it's an older type case. It also has the Halloween Orange plush interior. Again, if anyone has any input on that I'd appreciate that as well. The case just stunk really, really bad. My guitar guy and I have both worked diligently on it and it's much better but certainly not where I want it. So, I'll likely store it in another case until I get that worked out.
Eric will be along at some point to post some pics for me (Thanks Again Eric). If the pics suck blame me not Eric. He can only work with what I send him.