I'm guessing it's the D-25.
Yeah, I think mine was a sixties. Got it used around '72.The D-25 was introduced in 1968.
The red one.:smile-new:
TX
Did you mean F40?For acoustics I immediately thought D25 as well, but now wondering
if more F20 variants might have been produced than D25s.
Right, although I was surprised to discover recently that D35 production far outstripped it in first year.The D-25 was introduced in 1968.
Well that is what I understood when the question was: "Which model # did Guild build the most of?" A specific model number.But if we just go by a single model number...
Well that is what I understood when the question was: "Which model # did Guild build the most of?" A specific model number.
Ralf
Where oh where did this go off the rails?Al, if you're talking about body style+size then the D-25 is really a "D" -- as all the dreadnoughts are pretty much the same. OK, not really -- some are bigger, some are smaller, but most are "just right" D-sized beasties.
I repeat, how did this go off the rails?I'm not sure how that'd compare to *all* the "F" bodies (pinched-waists of all sizes), but certainly the dreadnoughts would have the lion's share of production over any specific-sized F-body, including the F-40 body type.
Sure he's talking about multiple models combined vs one model, but it was still an interesting question.For acoustics I immediately thought D25 as well, but now wondering
if more F20 variants might have been produced than D25s.
Nope, I said specifically: "Model #." SF-I-V would be 5 different model numbers. D-25, D-15, D-4 etc. would all be different model numbers.
I would still guess they built more D-25's than any other.
From Guild Gallery #1, Winter'97-Spring'98 (Richie Havens Cover), pg 12:
"More D25's have been sold than any other Guild"
I suspect even if we throw out the 'hog bodys and only the count the sprucetop archbacks with a 27-year run that would still be true, and even more so when you consider that statement was made in '97.
I think the intro-level price point helped a lot, too.
Almost hate to say it but the D25 was kind of like Guild's Beetle.
So don't think even all combined sales of all F40 variants would top it, much as I love F40's.
'Course, a D25 was my first Guild.
Agreed, that is "some" evidence but it was 22 years ago! Something "could" have changed in the meantime. When was the last D-25 produced?From Guild Gallery #1, Winter'97-Spring'98 (Richie Havens Cover), pg 12: "More D25's have been sold than any other Guild"
Can I play?I challenge anybody to come up with more than 38 of 'em.
Right but it was still 4 years before close of Westerly, not sure what the numbers looked like for those next 4years.Agreed, that is "some" evidence but it was 22 years ago! Something "could" have changed in the meantime.
US built? Corona '02-maybe early '04, but suspect more likely sometime in '03: it wasn't in the Spring '04 price list where the GAD's were first listed, but the GAD25 was. (It was the first price list the GAD's appeared in)When was the last D-25 produced?
Yes and I didn't mean to give short-shrift to that side of the line.At least now also 6 years ago Guild mentioned to me at the NAMM 2013 show that the D-125 model would be the highest running model in the GAD series. So the D-25 / D-125 surely had high numbers even until today.
SURE!Can I play?
I am gob-smacked.I didn't make a difference between C and CE and did not add GAD models.[q/uote]
I distinguished the "CE's" in the F40-family because it was a distinct formula where c&e were combined and part of the build formula, not "optional", and actually I see you did appear to follow that logic when you included the "DCE" series.
1 D-4 ...
60 Finesse (1997; spruce over rosewood)
D4-12 and DCE-3.There is also the D70-12, G212 (D40-12). G312 (D50-12), and 12 string versions of the D15, D17, D25 (D212), and probably some others.
Tough call but in fact I include it on my original list.Not sure the D80-12 qualifies, since it is technically a prototype.
Since I issued the challenge, I do agree it's a grey area.Also not sure renamed models should qualify, such as the rosewood D60 (a renamed D66), and the D65R (a renamed D55).
Are you sure about the D17-12? I had all of those except that one.