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Today is the tenth anniversary of Fender shuttering the New Hartford plant, isn't it? At least that's what my Facebook memories tell me. It's hard to forget the distress and uncertainty of the time. And it's a wonder that Guild is still around, and still building wonderful guitars in the US...

Okay, I'm going to put this out there. One of the few holes in my collection (if you'd on't count maple) is a rosewood jumbo. I was long disdainful of jumbos for some reason, but my recent experience with my Oxnard F40 (which is finally opening up) has convinced me of their merits, I'm...

When I checked the forum the other day, I was struck by the fact that near the top were threads for the 1968 D40 and the 1969 D40, and over in the Buy/Sell/Trade subform was a thread for a 1964 D40. Well, I thought, I can help fill in the gaps. Here is my 1966 D40, which Sandy kindly sold to me...

I took my M20 for the first of three planned days in the studio this week. It sounded tremendous and recorded beautifully, just as I had thought and hoped it would. The funniest moments came when the engineer entered the isolation booth to set up mics for me. He took one look at the M20 and...

Hi folks. As my sig shows, I have a fair number of Guilds at this point. The first, though, and the only for about a dozen years, is my black 1990 D25, which was a law school graduation present in May 1991. One of the reasons I liked it was the built-in Fishman pickup--I had recenty started...

I spent most of June traveling, with trips to Colorado, Norway, and England. I wasn’t without guitars for the entire month--while in Colorado I had access to my brother’s mahogany Martin DM from the mid-2000s, and I took my Journey Overhead travel guitar to England. But I missed my Guilds. So...

It's really wonderful to have a guitar that plays this well, that sounds this good, and that I can feel comfortable taking outside on an evening with a questionable forecast (as it turned out, the weather was fine, though I think the crowd was limited by the forecast). The OM240e is not the...

In the wine world, it's well known that, if you ship a bottle of wine or transport it a long distance, you should let it sit for a few weeks before opening it, because, if you open it soon after transportation, it's likely to be muted in flavors and aromas. There's even a name for the...

To mark National Guitar Day, here's my "number one," my 2012 D50 Standard, which Guitar Center sold used in 2013 at a price so low it must have been a mistake, and which I picked up with the assistance of forum member Toni (ladytexan). It's been my regular companion ever since. It's not my...

Those sweet, sweet words...

Writing this post requires reaching back a decade and talking a bit about another guitar. In 2012, anticipating my upcoming 50th birthday, I purchased a 1964 F20, probably on eBay. The guitar was a bit of a mess when it arrived, but after some expert work (by whom I’m not sure—I know I consulted...

Today is the sixth anniversary of Let's Meet Guild IV, the last visit to the New Hartford factory. What an enlightening and fun day that was; I'm so glad I had the opportunity to go.

I have a big NGD post in the works, but before I post it, there's one question nagging the back of my mind. My understanding is that acoustic GSR models followed the standard New Hartford serial number scheme: N, then a letter for the year, then the serial number (so a 2010 would be NN-----)...

Thirty-seven years on, I still hate this day.

Here's my gear for tomorrow night's gig: '12 D50 Standard (open D), '07 F30 (standard tuning), '12 G312 (down a half-step). All have K&K pickups (Pure 12 in the G312, Pure Mini in the others); I'm hoping that will make switching between them relatively seamless. My run-through in my basement...

via I Love My Guitar, on Facebook.

I'm just back from 11 days of travel--my longest vacation in at least 16 years, and my longest time without a guitar in about four. So naturally when I got home I was very eager to play. But which guitar? Of the options available, I instinctively and immediately reached for the F47R. And I...

Surprisingly hard to photograph in the wild, but this comes close to capturing it. (That's an F30, formerly owned by Neal and now one of my two go-to performing guitars, here pictured at band practice).

The blue marquetry, the regular (non-Custom Shop) label--it must be an Orpheum prototype! More later.

My previous group sale thread garnered some admiring comments, but led to the sale of only one of the four listed guitars. So I’m going to try to break them out into separate threads. Here we have a 2012 F20, from the New Hartford factory. As a Standard Series guitar, it has a gloss...