I thought I would let you folks know about my NGD. Came today. I bid and won a Starfire 2 with a bigsby on ebay. Late 90's reissue from Westerly.The buy it now price was pretty good. Certainly not the class of the others that are posted here,but it is a real Guild, I love it. I have a DeArmond Starfire that is without a bigsby that really was my favorite. I picked the package up from the postoffice and unpacked it while my wife was out of the house. The previous owner was great, packed it well - even had it rapped in a plastic bag. Came from Arizona. No rust on the case latches. I tuned to open G - I need training wheels I guess on my guitars - and I had fun. Every Stones lick I knew from the internet never were better. Wow the tone knobs work! Everything seemed ok. When she got home, I told my wife that I got a new guitar:
" What? a new guitar!"
" well its used, I got it on ebay and it was a great deal, i've been looking at one at Good Guy's in Kapahulu ....they don't make these any more.....want to see it?"
"Wow shinny black - you'll need to keep it polished. What's that door handle thingy?"
"Thats a bigsby" I demonstrate and play some pretty clumsy rifts....she fronds.
"Can you play a real song from beginning to end?"
I always tell my daughter that if you have an instrument you have to be able to play at least one song, from beginning to end....Nice guitar, can you play it?
On thing, pehaps an important reason I like archtop electric guitars, is that you can play them unplugged - any hour. This one is Mahogany and sweet compared to the DeArmond. I played Molehu by Ozzie Kotani - first slack key song I learned....Sometimes, really not often with me..the song and the guitar and you are kind of the only ones and things are good and you are the channel. I was lucky.
"That sounded good, if you can afford it you should keep it"
Love my wife.
Final note: after 8 hours of sucking up Kaaawa"s humidity, things are a moving and I'm going to have to adjust the truss rod. The neck is bowing back a bit.
" What? a new guitar!"
" well its used, I got it on ebay and it was a great deal, i've been looking at one at Good Guy's in Kapahulu ....they don't make these any more.....want to see it?"
"Wow shinny black - you'll need to keep it polished. What's that door handle thingy?"
"Thats a bigsby" I demonstrate and play some pretty clumsy rifts....she fronds.
"Can you play a real song from beginning to end?"
I always tell my daughter that if you have an instrument you have to be able to play at least one song, from beginning to end....Nice guitar, can you play it?
On thing, pehaps an important reason I like archtop electric guitars, is that you can play them unplugged - any hour. This one is Mahogany and sweet compared to the DeArmond. I played Molehu by Ozzie Kotani - first slack key song I learned....Sometimes, really not often with me..the song and the guitar and you are kind of the only ones and things are good and you are the channel. I was lucky.
"That sounded good, if you can afford it you should keep it"
Love my wife.
Final note: after 8 hours of sucking up Kaaawa"s humidity, things are a moving and I'm going to have to adjust the truss rod. The neck is bowing back a bit.
