I've rarely been drawn to Gibson acoustics although I've owned a few all the way back to a 30's LG1 or something like that. I can't even look at a Taylor, the bridge and pickguard styling throw me off. Guilds on the other hand seem to pop up and become yours, sometimes at alarming rates.
I'm trying to thin the heard now and it's really difficult, each one is so nice. I just took the F30 out of the case for the first time in months a couple days ago, thinking should this one go on the chopping block as another "one too many guitars", and one strum and it was like Holy Sh*t, this thing's a keeper. That was without even the minute or so of fog lifting that guitars have to go through to sound pretty.
Really impressive.
I've been realizing you need to walk away from a guitar after a while and listen to it with fresh ears to really hear it.
I've never lived in a peer pressure environment to own any particular guitar, unless it was to get something with a whammy bar in the 80's... but having seen Woodstock the movie so many times since the very early 70's, I'd always be proud to play something with a Guild badge on the headstock, regardless of who knows what it is.
I played at a regional Permaculture Guild Fest a couple summers ago, and whenever somebody would come by to feed me or whatever, I"d say, "Hey, check out my Guild" as the word Guild was already in the air. I like plays on words and thought it was too cool.
Guilds forever.
This was my first one, over 20 years ago now, picked it up at a famous pawnshop that's long gone now. It was the best deal on a great acoustic, anything comparable was twice the money or more. I fussed with it for a while to get it to play and sound amazing, then eventually let it go on eBay and it went to the UK to a friend of Dave Davies looking for an acoustic for an upcoming recording project.