"My First Guild" -- post your photos here.

dapmdave · Aug 30, 2012

I have to go waaay back. This was a picture somebody took at a band practice, probably about 1985 or so.
I'm on the left with a '76 D-40.

Multiple choice time.

I no longer have...

(a) the guitar
(b) the mustache
(c) most of the hair
(d) all of the above

Dave

Thunderface · Aug 30, 2012

Dave,

Why didn't you tell us before that you were a member of The Five Neat Guys?

dapmdave · Aug 30, 2012

Thunderface said:
Dave,

Why didn't you tell us before that you were a member of The Five Neat Guys?

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Sorry! I was trying to avoid the media attention.

Dave

bluesypicky · Aug 30, 2012

I guess this isn't going back far enough for the striped pants, but nice stache regardless...
Not too much trouble when you were eating spaghettis in tomatoe sauce? :shock:

OK, I'll play: D. :lol:

fronobulax · Aug 30, 2012

My first Guild, and still in the stable:

'71 JS II and I really need to take better pictures with less distracting backgrounds.

Mrs. Fro's first Guild:

Seller's photo of her D-25.

fronobulax · Aug 30, 2012

drc said:
maybe we should start a new post asking how many people still have there first Guild? OR did someone already do that? And yes I am too lazy to research it myself! :lol:

I can't recall that we have although it must be election season in the USA because I am having difficulty recalling many things. I've toyed with several variations because I am interested in people who bought their first Guild new and still have it, as well as people who still have their first Guild no matter how acquired. Feel free to make a thread with a Poll. If anyone has a better memory than I do and finds an old one we can merge. For the record my sense is that 20 responses to a poll is pretty good for LTG.

eltuce · Aug 30, 2012

Bill Ashton said:
Do amps count? Bought it at the Fresh Pond Rotory in Boston (Cambridge), out of a van...having answered an ad in the Boston Globe...March 1968...$35

Weber speaker in it now, but still have the original Jensen P12R. Thought the amp was really old and not really what I was expecting...turns out it was really only 5 years old. Wonder how hot it was? :lol:

HA, love this story. Especially since I know exactly where you are talking about. Looking back I'm betting my first drum set was hot or something sketchy.

walrus · Aug 30, 2012

Love those vintage photos of some of you guys!

I'm the original owner of my first Guild, it has been posted already:

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=6542&start=0&hilit=walrus+64

walrus

geoguy · Aug 30, 2012

Bought new, & still own, the burgundy D25 in this pic . . .

gibsonjunkie · Aug 30, 2012

Well, I still have my first Guild; but then again, I only bought it Tuesday! :mrgreen:

PS. The Mrs. finally found out that I bought it and she's happy... not :evil:

Thunderface · Aug 30, 2012

gibsonjunkie said:
Well, I still have my first Guild; but then again, I only bought it Tuesday! :mrgreen:

PS. The Mrs. finally found out that I bought it and she's happy... not :evil:

So how comfy is the couch? Is she couchable mad?

charliea · Aug 30, 2012

The JF65-12 on the left got me started on my path of buy high/sell low Guild ownership. It now lives with Fixit, who probably means to sellit. If you're looking for an F412/JF65-12 it's a good one, and beautiful to boot. The G312 it's sharing time with is also an excellent guitar. I sold it to the late cap'njuan, who sold it to another forum member (I forget who). Man, that 312 is a loud 12-string!

idealassets · Aug 30, 2012

I rediscovered guitar playing in 2010, and bought a 2010 Guild F512 new shortly afterwords (on the right)

I bought it new in Oct, 2010, and still have it. Thats really no big thing, keeping the same guitar for 2 years.

What I have discovered after 2 years of playing the F512 is meeting just a few other players of Guild guitars nearby. I noticed the difference immediately after buying my Rickenbacker 360/12. (That there are a lot of Ric players everywhere) Fender electrics and Taylor acoustics have managed to dominate in this area. Guitar Center has managed to rule the day.

Any of my nice sounding Guild guitars has never resulted in anyone else asking me where they can get one. Still, I like what I have.

Craig

dapmdave · Aug 30, 2012

bluesypicky said:
I guess this isn't going back far enough for the striped pants, but nice stache regardless...
Not too much trouble when you were eating spaghettis in tomatoe sauce? :shock:

OK, I'll play: D. :lol:

D it is! We have a winner.

The good thing about having a mustache is the fact that you can re-enjoy your sauce several times through the day.

Dave

F30 · Aug 30, 2012

My first Guild was an F30R:

krysh · Aug 31, 2012

1990 SF-IV, bought in 2003, traded her for a 2007 Carr "The Vincent" Amplifier in 2009:

ladytexan · Aug 31, 2012

Bought my '73 D25 all mahogany, arch back at Arthur's Music Store in Broad Ripple Village (Indianapolis). Went with the full intention of buying a Martin D35, but after playing the D25, I bought the superior guitar.

Love it more now than I did then.

Jahn · Aug 31, 2012

My first real guitar was a crappy korean made acoustic electric dread by Epiphone, a black beast with BRASS adjustable saddles with the worst quacky piezo you've ever heard. and then it got stolen. so now it's the early 90s, and I find a husk on a hook over in West Chester, PA. for $300 I buy it and have the store spruce it up to playability, and bingo, my first REAL guitar, a '67 Guild F30NT Aragon. I kept it for over a decade, and after the dust settled, I still have an F30, but kinda only in name since it's the F30R that has 16" minijumbo dimensions. The '69 F312NT Artist next to it, I still have:

F30 · Aug 31, 2012

Jahn said:
My first real guitar was a crappy korean made acoustic electric dread by Epiphone, a black beast with BRASS adjustable saddles with the worst quacky piezo you've ever heard. and then it got stolen. so now it's the early 90s, and I find a husk on a hook over in West Chester, PA. for $300 I buy it and have the store spruce it up to playability, and bingo, my first REAL guitar, a '67 Guild F30NT Aragon. I kept it for over a decade, and after the dust settled, I still have an F30, but kinda only in name since it's the F30R that has 16" minijumbo dimensions. The '69 F312NT Artist next to it, I still have:

Sweet F30!

dreadnut · Sep 1, 2012

Same story with my D-25M, Toni - I was headed to the music store intending to buy a Martin. They carried Martins, Gibsons, and Guilds. After test driving hog models of all three brands, I bought the Guild. It beat out the others in terms of intrinsic beauty, sound, and price, what's not to like about that?

The Gibson came in second, and that's when they were still making them here in Kalamazoo, MI.

The Gibson was $500, the Martin D-18 was $600, the Guild was $300, all with hardshell cases.

There was just something intriguing about that Guild...the arched back, the fit and finish, and tone and sustain, I just re-strung it the other night and played 3 gigs with it. The DV-52 has only a slight edge in terms of balanced tone, but the D-25 really sings, especially the low tones. Many guitars are bright on the high end but muddy on the low striings - not the D-25M. I use the lower wound strings to mark the tempo of songs, and it sure is nice when the tone is clear and loud.

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