HI Sparks, don't mean to sound snarky, but pretty sure if you double-check the label it will say only "F212XL" because the "XL" indicated the 17" body size used for the maple-bodied F412 and rosewood bodied F512.
Looks like you are right! Thanks for the feedback!HI Sparks, don't mean to sound snarky, but pretty sure if you double-check the label it will say only "F212XL" because the "XL" indicated the 17" body size used for the maple-bodied F412 and rosewood bodied F512.
Although "JF" does ID a 17" jumbo body, it was never used in conjunction the 212 call-out, although it was used when the JF30-12 was introduced and when the F412/F512 were renamed JF65/JF55-12
So to ID a 'hog-bodied 17" jumbo 12 string before the "JF" model prefix was introduced in '87, they added "XL" to the F212 (16" jumbo) model name since it was already associated with a 'hog bodied 12-er.
Lemme know if that's not confusing enough.
Very cool, what year is yours...love to see pics!I aso have an F212XL -- one of my favorite Guild 12-strings.
It is big!!! I have keep it tuned to pitch since i got it in 1980 with extra light gauge strings. It still booms and I have never had a problem with the neck, neck/body joint or bridge! That's a lot of gigs!
Sorry about your wrist but glad it's better! I am 65 and dreading the day my age starts to hinder my playing!i liked it, but blew out my left wrist for the 2nd time and needed some clean up surgery, which took a few months to return from, and I just couldn't fret 12 strings. So i bring it down to the same place i bought and traded it up even for a Gibson H-bird in decent shape. I was happy as a clam. I gave that H-bird to a friend a couple years later who had no acoustic.
wrist great these days but i since realized 12 strings have 6 too many strings on them. lol
WOW, love them both! XL looks exactly like mine!I'm in!
And just for fun here's it's F-212 little sibling: