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GAD · Aug 28, 2019

I'm done. Well, it's never done, but I'm seriously tired of looking at it all, so here's the official release of the following pages:

Guild Guitar Catalogs
Guild Guitar Price Lists
Guild Ads, Flyers, etc.

Here's the announcement: https://www.gad.net/Blog/2019/08/28/gads-guild-catalogs-price-lists-ads-flyers/

I'm gonna go take a nap. Or maybe a vacation.

Default · Aug 28, 2019

FWIW, you are missing the freely available 1956 catalog.

GAD · Aug 28, 2019

Default said:
FWIW, you are missing the freely available 1956 catalog.

Really? That's what you're opening with? :highly_amused:

FNG · Aug 28, 2019

Pretty awesome job by all!

dreadnut · Aug 28, 2019

It's curious that the '76 Acoustic catalog shows the D-25 as a flat back w/ hog top even though by '76 they had been all arch backs w/ spruce tops for a couple years already...

GAD · Aug 28, 2019

dreadnut said:
It's curious that the '76 Acoustic catalog shows the D-25 as a flat back w/ hog top even though by '76 they had been all arch backs w/ spruce tops for a couple years already...

Dates on catalogs may be wrong. If I can get proof of the year I'll change them.

adorshki · Aug 28, 2019

dreadnut said:
It's curious that the '76 Acoustic catalog shows the D-25 as a flat back w/ hog top even though by '76 they had been all arch backs w/ spruce tops for a couple years already...

Yeah I noticed that recently, too, think Gary was previewing some of the upcoming tidbits, or else it was on somebody else's page, GGJaguar's, maybe?
"Anachronistic picture content" has been mentioned by Hans before (not those exact words, but simply the issue of catalog pics not always being accurate for their date).
Suspect somebody was simply focused on coloration to match the description of the D25M "all mahogany finish".
The '96 catalog shows a pic of a 25th Anniversary D25, (headstock logo's the giveaway) which was 3 years old at the time.
As everybody knows you can get a hell of a lot of mileage out of a D25, or apparently even just a pic of one.

GAD · Aug 28, 2019

There lots of examples of the same photo being used across many years in the catalogs. I talk about that in my X160 Rockabilly review.

dreadnut · Aug 28, 2019

And the picture on my D-25M owners manual is the same blue/yellow one on the cover of the '76 catalog. Not sure how long they used that picture.

BTW Gary, thanks for posting, I will be visiting and browsing often.

GAD · Aug 28, 2019

The link to the Flyers seems to have been broken by some ham-fisted idiot <cough>. It's better now.

awagner · Aug 28, 2019

This is awesome.

beecee · Aug 28, 2019

wow.....Thank you!

Looks like a bit of a rainy Labor Day weekend up here...I know what I'll be doing!!!!!

Default · Aug 28, 2019

GAD said:
Really? That's what you're opening with? :highly_amused:

It's just jealousy. Actually, I learned something new. The transformerless amps that Guild built before they instituted the "-J" series of amps were called the 66-B and 99-B. Adds to the book data, for when I get to it.

GAD · Aug 31, 2019

Just added this gem from the UK: https://www.gad.net/Blog/2010/08/31/guild-guitar-catalog-1963-uk/

This one was an absolute mess and I felt like a museum curator handling it because it felt like it would disintegrate at any moment.

D30Man · Aug 31, 2019

That is too cool GAD.. thanks for putting this out there!

Bonneville88 · Aug 31, 2019

Nothing less than EPIC in all aspects Gary - to have these resources organized in one place with
such great color, clarity and resolution is just awesome! Thank you!
And I learned something this morning - didn't realize the Songbird was considered part of the Nightbird family.

12 string · Aug 31, 2019

How great to have all this at the fingertips!

' Strang

awagner · Aug 31, 2019

Are there any catalogues known to feature the DV7x, JV72 and GV72 models? Would love to see that. It is interesting that the price lists describe the DV73 but not the DV72, a much less uncommon model.

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