Unique Guild JF30-10

[johnny3j]

Check out this very different Guild guitar modified by luthier Michel Pellerin:
JF30-10

It features a modified JF30 body with a Florentine cutaway, extended fretboard (in width not length) to accomodate an 8 note concept, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th strings are single course, 6th and 7th are double course and 8th is single course and shy of the fretboard. The guitar features a scalloped fretboard and is fitted with an LR Baggs pickup system.
Hyderabad meets Hoboken, I guess

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

Should have started with a JF-30-12.
It sure would have looked better.

 

[capnjuan]

Hmmm ... that's really quelque chose :shock: :shock:

 

[chazmo]

Hmmm ... that's really quelque chose :shock: :shock:

Indeed it is!

Very cool. I wonder if the extra treble part of the fretboard (now unused) bothers him. [edit: never mind... I just listened to it again, and it seems the treble side is EXTENDED for those bends. ] Scalloped frets... Well he needs them for his zitar-style bends. Well, that's definitely something you don't see everyday. BTW, the fretboard on my JF-30-12 is rosewood, but his looks like ebony... Perhaps it's an entirely new fretboard [edit: yup, it is. Much wider than normal].

That extended nut... I couldn't see behind it, but I assume it's not just sticking off into space like it appears to be. Something, I hope, is supporting that behind it or I would imagine that's going to just break off someday.

TMG, not sure what you mean. He did, didn't he. ???

 

[Taylor Martin Guild]

Wasn't it a JF-30 to start with?

 

[johnny3j]

Sorry guys,
I meant that the body itself was a "JF30 style" with spruce top and maple back and sides.
If you look at the bridge, there are holes for the 12 strings on a JF30-12, so they started with a 12 string JF30-12, added a Florentine cutaway, then extended the saddle and nut width, widened and scalloped the fretboard, added string trees to the headstock to direct the strings from their new position crossing the nut to the relevant capstan and filled in the holes left by the two removed machine heads.

 

[onewilyfool]

Thank God Guilds are built like tanks....you could only put this kind of stress on a 70's Guild...lol.....