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Combination of body shape, pickguard, and what I could make out of the headstock, I'd say an F-30 from the 1990s.
 

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oh, that is small, i am going with F20. Westerly too.
 

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Yes, an F-20. I have my 90s F-30 out, and the soundhole rings are different.
 

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So dim and blurry, couldn't see the top as hog (and, truth be told, didn't watch it all.) Looked a different color from the sides, but I bow to the master.
 

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it sounds terrible and thin. go dread or go home is my Guild mantra...

:)
 

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it sounds terrible and thin. go dread or go home is my Guild mantra...

:)

That sound is so thin it has to run around in the shower to get wet

Im with you Woodrow, i am constantly amazed with the balance and tone of my d50s
 

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That sound is so thin it has to run around in the shower to get wet

Im with you Woodrow, i am constantly amazed with the balance and tone of my d50s

oh the D50 is a great powerful acoustic. I wish I still had mine, it even had tone flames on the top. I am just hoping the tone of that M20 was the result of the sound system :)
 

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that is the poor choice in pickup/amplification/effects and not the ideal strings im sure, for that particular guitar, not to mention the $hitty recording, making it sound so awful. Even I could make an M-20 sound much, much better than that. he is doing it all wrong. or for what hes going for, use a spruce top or guitar or something else (maybe a strat!)

I have found my mahogany top Guilds to be in a world of their own, soundwise. that might make them a one trick pony, but they sure sound sweet. actually a 2 trick pony because they sound really good for slide, and I am typically not good at playing the slide. mahogany top not better or worse than spruce, but definitely different. I play the short scale M-20 (1960s) and the long scale, flat/solid back, mahogany top D-25 (early 70s). The F-20s also sound really nice. i have a short scale one, and sold a long scale one I had, which sounded so much like a regular dread (which is to say quite good!), that i just didn't need it. The mahogany guitars sound nothing like the F-20s.
 

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I have found my mahogany top Guilds to be in a world of their own, soundwise. that might make them a one trick pony, but they sure sound sweet. actually a 2 trick pony because they sound really good for slide, and I am typically not good at playing the slide. mahogany top not better or worse than spruce, but definitely different. I play the short scale M-20 (1960s) and the long scale, flat/solid back, mahogany top D-25 (early 70s).

Mav, I too have noticed how good my D25 all hog flat sounds thru a PA. No touch up either. And just a passive K&K mini pup. It cuts thru mix well and can sound very powerful. Still wish I had a D35 to complete the picture. Sitka is a nice top wood. More volume. But all in all I can't complain. I do complain but I should not. 😀
 
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