All mahogany guitar, why?

[Br1ck]

Touring like that can't be good for your health. Too much bad food for one, and too many bars.

 

[CLMacPherson]

All of this hog-talk is making me consider a rather clean D17m that popped up locally today...

 

[beecee]

Are you expecting us to not enable????

 

[CLMacPherson]

Technically I'm a drummer that plays guitar, so I usually only go crazy with drums. (I know, I know) lol Tomorrow I'm taking delivery of a clean '71 d-40 that will undoubtedly scratch the guitar itch...

 

[merlin6666]

I don't get the mahogany concept at all. Many of the large manufacturers now use all sorts of hardwood,dye them to a brownish hue and then call it mahogany. So I guess if it has a brownish hardwood top then it is mahogany. I tried a few including Guilds at my local guitar store and I find them too muted compared to my own guitars. When I see and hear them played at concerts they sound fine when they are well amplified through PA. People like them enough for factories to churn them out.

 

[Rayk]

I don't get the mahogany concept at all. Many of the large manufacturers now use all sorts of hardwood,dye them to a brownish hue and then call it mahogany. So I guess if it has a brownish hardwood top then it is mahogany. I tried a few including Guilds at my local guitar store and I find them too muted compared to my own guitars. When I see and hear them played at concerts they sound fine when they are well amplified through PA. People like them enough for factories to churn them out.

For me they have more warmth and when finger picked they have good overtones and sustain. On quiet nights you can really hear the intricacies between notes .
And I agree , I would not want to go to a bluegrass jam with one . Lol
I’m still looking over the different builds/ manufacturer to hear how they compare tone wise . Now the only all hog I have is a import OM 120 and it does have very good overtones and decent tone for its cost . I can only imagine what a all hog OM F30 or grand auditorium would sound like if Guild built it .
they also will fit in nicely if one needs a darker guitar tone in a mix or something .

 

[Westerly Wood]

Like Ray says, they handle fingerpicking well as the notes decay quickly vs say rosewood so you end up with more clarity and purpose with less conflicting overtones.

 

[Westerly Wood]

Speaking of which, if I get into another Guild soon, it might be an M20. Even one of the Oxnard made models. I could see that developing.

 

[highwayman]

Like Dreadnut, I have both the D25-M and the D-15 (see pic). They both sound great, but I use them for different songs, because they sound different. Both not expensive Guilds, they are wonderful guitars and I would never let them go. Sometimes the beauty of all of my Guilds keeps me from playing them (well, but only briefly)
Thomas