Well folks, I am now the proud owner of a 1977 Guild D44!!! It is in process of being shipped from the Lexington store to Georgia. In the midst of deciding on buying it, I found out that the man that did all the work on my guitars back in the 90's, Bert Foster, apparently moved his shop from Snellville and now operates a guitar shop up here close to where I live in Cumming. As soon as it arrives, I'm going to take it to him for inspection since all I could do is get a description from one of the guys in the guitar department of the Lexington store. I don't think they would have dropped the price. I tried to get them to throw in a SM57 mic with the deal to no avail. Anyhow, I'm stoked.