HankMauel
Junior Member
Earlier this year there was a thread about the Guild D-40. Mine was away from home at a recording session so I was unable to provide photos. So, here they are:
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22943970
For Hans...this is the D-40 I got in my senior year of high school...I graduated in June 1963 and played it in the Senior Talent Show in the spring of 1963. The serial number doesn't jive with your lists, so that's the first anomoly. But it's on the circa 1963 style label. Second, there is no Chesterfield on the headstock which differs from the photos of the D-40 in The Guild Book. It has the 1 3/4" wide fingerboard @ nut and it is dead flat. The only others I've seen like this were the two bought by other members of my class that year...although I have never researched the time line of flat
1 3/4" fingerboards and the change to 1 11/16" radiused boards.
Everything on the guitar is original, except the strings and bridge pins. :wink: As can be seen by the saddle height, we're getting near the time for a neck reset, which I am not looking forward to given the body and neck were finished as a unit.
The peghead overlay, the binding and the pickguard are all of a "plastic" material and it has shrunk over the years so you can feel the edges of the wood body and headstock. As close as I can tell, the Guild logo appears to be from real MOP. It is now minutely "proud" of the headstock overlay and the overlay has shrunk back all around the logo, which has maintained it's integrity.
The back has a nice fiddleback flame in the mahogany. "Patina" abounds but doesn't show in the photos. Finish is original and is worn to bare wood along the center strip in the neck behind the first 5 positions. Frets are original and still quite serviceable. They must have made them tougher in the old days!
Anyway, hope you enjoy this oldie but goodie.
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/view/22943970
For Hans...this is the D-40 I got in my senior year of high school...I graduated in June 1963 and played it in the Senior Talent Show in the spring of 1963. The serial number doesn't jive with your lists, so that's the first anomoly. But it's on the circa 1963 style label. Second, there is no Chesterfield on the headstock which differs from the photos of the D-40 in The Guild Book. It has the 1 3/4" wide fingerboard @ nut and it is dead flat. The only others I've seen like this were the two bought by other members of my class that year...although I have never researched the time line of flat
1 3/4" fingerboards and the change to 1 11/16" radiused boards.
Everything on the guitar is original, except the strings and bridge pins. :wink: As can be seen by the saddle height, we're getting near the time for a neck reset, which I am not looking forward to given the body and neck were finished as a unit.
The peghead overlay, the binding and the pickguard are all of a "plastic" material and it has shrunk over the years so you can feel the edges of the wood body and headstock. As close as I can tell, the Guild logo appears to be from real MOP. It is now minutely "proud" of the headstock overlay and the overlay has shrunk back all around the logo, which has maintained it's integrity.
The back has a nice fiddleback flame in the mahogany. "Patina" abounds but doesn't show in the photos. Finish is original and is worn to bare wood along the center strip in the neck behind the first 5 positions. Frets are original and still quite serviceable. They must have made them tougher in the old days!
Anyway, hope you enjoy this oldie but goodie.
