1977 G75nt

[HeyMikey]

Here are a couple more comps. IMHO Price range is roughly $1500+- a couple hundred in good cosmetic shape and not needing any significant repairs such as a neck reset, bridge work, fretwork, crack repair, loose bracing, etc.

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Guild G-75 - Mini Dreadnaught Shape with Full Scale Neck! - Amazing Guitar with an Innovative Design! - Brand New Fret Job and Original Hard Case! - Made in Westerly, R.I.🇺🇸! | Reverb

This Guild is a soul-crushing guitar. It has all the classic reasons that you would seek out an old Guild for, and it’s also a super innovative and practical design! I grew up playing old Guilds made at the Westerly factory from this era, and they’re my all around favorite acoustic guitars for so...

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Here is a great tutorial on checking neck angle to determine if a reset is needed. Feel free to ask questions.

Best of luck and play the heck out of that beautiful Guild!

 

[davismanLV]

I think Mikey meant HERE is a great tutorial on checking the neck angle.....

 

[HeyMikey]

Thanks Tom. That is exactly the link I intended to include

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

At the risk of getting Han's (aren't we always?), I've always thought the G75 was for Guild .75 which is the decimal equivalent of 3/4 since it's a 3/4 size Dreadnought.

 

[GAD]

At the risk of getting Han's (aren't we always?), I've always thought the G75 was for Guild .75 which is the decimal equivalent of 3/4 since it's a 3/4 size Dreadnought.

Or the more consumer friendly 75%.

 

[davismanLV]

At the risk of getting Han's (aren't we always?), I've always thought the G75 was for Guild .75 which is the decimal equivalent of 3/4 since it's a 3/4 size Dreadnought.

Yeah, I always just assumed that 3/4 sized guitar was 75%, hence G75.

 

[adorshki]

The color on yours is great - is it just a g75? Or what is the model number? Ive also seen g75r and g75rc.

Never seen those callouts ("R" and "RC") on a G75.

In Guild label protocol an "R" normally designated a rosewood variant of a body normally built with 'hog or maple, and "RC" would imply a cutaway version o that rosewood body. Since a G75's already rosewood, "R" wouldn't be used.

And now that the question's been percolating in my brain for a couple of minutes, I think I may have actually seen a cutaway G75 here. Guild commonly built one-offs and very small runs of spec variation guitars right up through the '90's.

I see guitars offered online all the time in which the owners have "invented" a model number/name for an instrument that looks/sounds like Guild terminology but which aren't correct for the model listed. Suspect that's where your "R" and "RC" refs came from.

 

[SFIV1967]

The receipt from when my mom bought it says she paid $400 plus tax in 1977...

Here are the US price lists:

Nov 1, 1974:


Nov 1, 1975:


Nov 1, 1976:


May 15, 1977:


Sep 1, 1977:


Afterwards no longer offered.

Ralf

 

[SFIV1967]

Never seen those callouts ("R" and "RC") on a G75.

O.k., I give you a challenge, let's see if you can solve that riddle!

And yes, there were also such G-75-RC and also G-75-C. I just don't have a label picture of them.



Ralf

 

[adorshki]

O.k., I give you a challenge, let's see if you can solve that riddle!



Ralf

It's a 'Reject'.

 

[SFIV1967]

It's a 'Reject'.

No seriously, you need to think outside the box here, maybe you notice something else?

(Hint 1: check which year she was made...)

@HeyMikey : Don't destroy the fun yet!

Ralf

 

[adorshki]

No seriously, you need to think outside the box here, maybe you notice something else?

Ralf

Sorry buddy, don't see it but suspect there must be something about the label? Isn't it correct for '75-77?

I do note it's not written by our favorite blue-ink using illegible label writer, though, so maybe some marketing person was writing labels that day and didn't know any better? (In other words I'm saying technically it's a label error, unless the catalog model number AND the price list was in error.....)

(BTW, @helpfulable : although I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek about the label writer, we have seen examples of every glitch I described there: Label error, catalog error, and price list error. )

But as I said I still never saw the "R"callout before, that I remember, anyway.

 

[SFIV1967]

Sorry buddy, don't see it but suspect there must be something about the label? Isn't it correct for '75-77?

See Hint #1 in my post #31 above, I'm sure you can solve it!

Ralf

 

[adorshki]

No seriously, you need to think outside the box here, maybe you notice something else?

(Hint 1: check which year she was made...)

@HeyMikey : Don't destroy the fun yet!

Ralf

Oh, according to the s/n charts, that guitar hasn't been built yet. I'm not so sure I believe that.
Not only that, it's my GF's telephone number, minus the area code....Gotta admit, that's a first for Guild, for me.

 

[SFIV1967]

Oh, according to the s/n charts, that guitar hasn't been built yet. I'm not so sure I believe that.
Not only that, it's my GF's telephone number, minus the area code....Gotta admit, that's a first for Guild, for me.

Now we are talking! That went even more funny than I thought! Not to say amazing!

According to the serial number this guitar was built in March 1997 and it is a legit Guild serial number!

But I solve it now:
That guitar was the 29th (if I read the serial number correctly) ever built guitar in the Nashville Custom Shop! But it has nothing to do at all with the G-75 @helpfulable has! It actually was built from parts that originated out of Fender's Spring Hill facility!
So the G-75-R or G-75-C or G-75-RC are very different animals...

All the stories including you posting in them are here:

Anybody help identify this Guild acoustic?

Dreadnaught with Florentine cutaway. Surf green with abalone/white/black purfling and biding. Fancy inlays. Even has abalone around truss rod screws. Westerly label says G-75-C with serial number. Label on heel says "ONE OF ONE" and "CUSTOM SHOP' with illegible signature. Also "CUSTOM SHOP"...

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G75. What is it?

Is he saying the newer G-75 of the 3/4" size G-75? I would think the newer. Ahhhh. I was assuming he was talking about the 3/4 sized G-75

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G75. What is it?

Hans, any idea why they went with G-75 as a model number? Seems like an odd choice.

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And here is an RC:

Guild G-75-RC - Westerly Guild Guitars

Ralf

 

[Bonneville88]

The color on yours is great - is it just a g75? Or what is the model number? Ive also seen g75r and g75rc. The catalog page shared by @SFIV1967 only shows g75 and g75nt which is what mine is.

Do you know what the value of a guitar like mine is? I saw the exact one I have on reverb sold for $1,600 almost six years ago but not in as nice a condition. The receipt from when my mom bought it says she paid $400 plus tax in 1977... Inflation calculator estimates a purchasing power equivalent of $1,959 today in 2023. I was wondering if it has held/lost/gained value over time? I guess anything is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it anyway so there is always that.

Not planning on selling it btw!! I thought about it but decided I don't want to let it go. Just curious!

Thanks.

Mine is a G75 SB, serial #155786.
Looks like some good replies came in re value.
They don't seem to come up for sale very often, so that alone may affect value.
Mine's actually got quite a few small dings & dents and various wear marks,
it's seen significant usage in its 46 or so years.
Sounds good though!

I've posted this before, nice demo of a G75 by James Ralston.