A visit to Willcutt = NGD and a return to Guild ownership :)

[Aahzz]

I can't believe how BIG this guitar sounds. Was just wailing away on her for a while, then picked up my Eastman E6D and it sounded downright compressed compared to the Guild!

 

[Wellington]

Oxnard, 2017. The strings didn’t feel dead, but they may have been monels or something strange. It had absolutely zero resonance.

I guess it just could have been a dud. My Traditional is very resonant, very responsive and just overall fantastic, plus it sounds amazing with Monels. But, duds happen with anything I guess.

 

[twocorgis]

I guess it just could have been a dud. My Traditional is very resonant, very responsive and just overall fantastic, plus it sounds amazing with Monels. But, duds happen with anything I guess.

It happens. I owned a 2010 D40 Traditional that was one of the rare duds from the New Hartford plant.

 

[GGJaguar]

One thing I learned a long time ago is that one person's dud is another person's perfect guitar, even if the general consensus is that the guitar isn't very good sounding.

 

[chazmo]

GG is absolutely right about that. I mean, unless we're talking about manufacturing defects, that is...

However, what is interesting and true is that guitars made under almost the exact same conditions/specs don't always sound the same. Wood is always different. The people in the shop doing the work vary. Sometimes precision does not result in uniformity.