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My right rotator cuff is torn in three places, in addition to my bicep tendon. Guitar playing, and anything else requiring a functional right arm, has become increasingly difficult. I tried rehab, but it was not successful. I am left with a choice: surgery and its aftermath, or limited use of my...

Not a Guild, but still a cool guitar. I am downsizing my collection, and this is the next one to go. 2004 Gretsch 6120 in an amber finish that accentuates the flame of the all-maple body. Equipped with two high-sensitivity Filtertron pickups, a bigsby tailpiece and the infamous “mud switch”...

It will be late Saturday before I can get my hands on this beauty, a 1936 X-braced Gibson L-7. My wife was kind enough to open the box and send me some photos. I have been wanting one of these for a very long time. The only thing missing from this one is the pickguard, probably a crumbling mess...

First-year Guild. No evidence of a serial number ever having been assigned to it. Unusual dark red sunburst. The guitar is completely original, except for the Franz cover, truss rod cover, heel cap and the pickguard. I do have the original pickguard, but it was unfortunately “bedazzled” by a...

A 2004 Gretsch 6118 Double Anniversary, and a 2004 6120. The king of twang.

I have owned a 1953 Guild X-150 prototype for close to a decade now. A lot of other guitars have come and gone. Still, I was never completely in love with it, until… I got into the wonderful world of Fender Silverface Champs and Princeton Reverbs. My, oh my. All of the true, angry meatiness...

I love the translation of this F-30R's description from Japanese to English. https://reverb.com/item/55389588-guild-f-30r-05-22 "The size of a small jumbo of about 15 inches has just the right amount of repulsion, and the stroke is rosewood, but it doesn't get too crowded, and the arpeggio...

For those of you who own both Westerly-era and Corona-era Guild acoustics, can you describe any differences in the neck profile of the two?

In a recent post, I talked about the joys of owning a 12-string again. A big, beautiful, blonde Guild jumbo 12-string, to be precise. I play with a heavy hand and a fat (2.0 to 3.0) pick, and have broken three of the upper-octave G strings in the process of getting to know this guitar. Two...

I was wondering... What would a Guild jumbo 12-string sound like with only six strings? On a guitar constructed to withstand 250 pounds of string tension, could six strings get the top moving? What if I used super fat strings? I recall Al doing that with an F-112. So, when time came to...

I am continuing to experiment with different sounding instruments in multi-track recording. Anybody got a round-neck resonator they wish to part with? As always, I don't care if it has been abused and neglected. But it must be playable and sound good.

Thanks to Chazmo, I am now the proud owner of a USA Guild 12-string maple jumbo. Over the past couple months, I ordered not one, but two Westerly Collection F-2512’s, and both were damaged in shipping, at least in part because Guild now sells them without a case, and neither was properly...

I have started recording some of my original songs, and have been doing some multi-tracking to "fatten up" the sound. It occurred to me that adding a 12-string to the mix on some of the songs might sound cool. Anyone got a 12-string propped against a wall or under a bed that they do not play...

My new F-250 arrived today in a Guild box that looked like it had been chewed on by an alligator. Not a good sign. Upon opening the box, I discovered that Guild doesn't ship the Westerly Collection guitars in a case. Not a hard case, nor a gig bag. Nothing, but a thin plastic bag, surrounded...

These look like a dead ringer for the elusive F-50 Standard I foolishly sold a few years back. I get that they are MIC, that they are not finished in NCL, that they have a pau ferro fret board/, and that the tuners and electronics are cheap. But for under $600, all in, the F-250 appears to...

I'm looking for the one that got away. I foolishly sold mine a few years back in my chase after boutique guitars. I miss it. Anyone got one they would be willing to part with?

The title says it all. Looking for the cheapest F-50 out there. I prefer one of the big tanks from Westerly. Cracks, repairs, dings, scratches? All OK!

Hello, fellow LTGers. As many of you know, I love Tacoma Guilds. The problem is that they don’t love me back! Hard as I try to get used to the modern Guild neck, every Tacoma and New Hartford Guild I have owned (and there have been many) has ended in pain and frustration. Too narrow, and too...

Well, the F-40 I bought on a whim (with incomplete information...on Reverb...red wine was involved...) turns out to be Tacoma-made, a March 2007 model, right in the sweet spot for that era (after the folks there got the updated models down to a science, but before they knew their days were...

OK, I'm back. I've been on a long, expensive trip to Martin and Gibson vintageguitarland, but just snagged an F-40 Valencia (either Tacoma or New Hartford, not sure) off of Reverb. I have been haunted for years by the only guitar I have ever sold that I regret letting go, a 2007...