Aloha!
New to this forum, and new to Guild guitars. I was recently gifted a 66 F212 (in parts), neck sans tuners, ...Body, no pickguard, couple of tight cracks.
I am going to a small pacific island for a couple of years and having a project or two is kind of mental security for the time ahead. A person can only catch fish and lay about for so long ...before you become part of an unsustainable lifestyle..(for the rest of the world which I will return to at some point) I think I will thin down the neck, replace the bridge for six strings, Modify the headstock, whatever. I think it would make a good 'go to guitar'. That would be the guitar in the living room with no case that you play 51% of the time.
This is not a primo candidate for a serious restoration. It was probably rescued from some luthier-repair persons pile of ...can't afford to fix/ can't throw away pile. I will start a thread for it here, but first I want to read through the often mentioned "Killdeer conversion thread" (which I can't seem to locate).
Thanks in advance for all yall's help.
Jimbo
I steamed off the bridge. It looks like this is the second time off for it.
New to this forum, and new to Guild guitars. I was recently gifted a 66 F212 (in parts), neck sans tuners, ...Body, no pickguard, couple of tight cracks.
I am going to a small pacific island for a couple of years and having a project or two is kind of mental security for the time ahead. A person can only catch fish and lay about for so long ...before you become part of an unsustainable lifestyle..(for the rest of the world which I will return to at some point) I think I will thin down the neck, replace the bridge for six strings, Modify the headstock, whatever. I think it would make a good 'go to guitar'. That would be the guitar in the living room with no case that you play 51% of the time.
This is not a primo candidate for a serious restoration. It was probably rescued from some luthier-repair persons pile of ...can't afford to fix/ can't throw away pile. I will start a thread for it here, but first I want to read through the often mentioned "Killdeer conversion thread" (which I can't seem to locate).
Thanks in advance for all yall's help.
Jimbo
I steamed off the bridge. It looks like this is the second time off for it.