OK. Source for tite bond elsewhere?
I have a distinct memory of someone (Chaz, I think, in one of the LMG feedback threads) mentioning the use of Titebond specifically with regard to neck setting: that it set up more quickly, improving production time but requiring the neckset guy to be a little quicker with the task.
It stuck in my memory because I was mildly disappointed, being a "hideglue purist":
It
is a little harder to work with but because it crystallizes when dry it forms the strongest glue bond available, last I heard. Exhibits best "creep resistance" which is critical in guitar construction.
And makes vintage Guild necks that much much harder to reset. :biggrin-new:
I don't recall seeing that Titebond was in use throughout the entire construction of the guitars, I got the impression it was limited to the necks for the production time/ease of reset issue, but that may have been simply because that's what the post was focused on.
The old "imprecision of English" thing.
While this is true I think frono was trying to head off some "glamorization creep" regarding the building of the Orpheum line. References to a type of build that was more custom than what really happened. That's what I think he's saying. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I'm getting from this. Not that they aren't good guitars or worth the money. It's more technical correctness vs. glamorized mis-remembrance.
That's how I get it too. A similar thing used to occur in speculation about how the Westerly DV's and D55's and D100's, et al, were built, but I don't remember ever seeing any concrete confirmation of a lot of it from Guild, about Westerly's methods on those models.
Example: '97 catalog says DV's were the product "research into how to tune the bodies and tops.." but didn't actually say tops were sanded a la "tap tuning" or simply to get a thinner more resonant top, but they
did say it about the
sides (!)
Still, with construction and materials standards already being so high for Guild in general and reportedly at a zenith in NH, any additional attention paid during construction as Frono mentioned, to "special" or "halo" models like Orpheums and GSR's,
has to take them to a very high level indeed, and owner feedback does seem to confirm it.
"Glamorization creep".
I like it.
Hendrix was a victim of that for a while too, but he's actually more fascinating as a plain old everyday artistic and performing genius. But human.