Because its pretty cool(and we kinda like this stuff)

[Rebosbro]

So I have a 76 D-50 my older sister loaned(gave) me many moons ago. Action was awful so she never played it. So I took it to my tech and he set it up beautifully. So I stopped by to see her last night and she found her original receipt!! Now safely stored with the guitar.

 

[GuildyAsHell]

My birth year. One day I’ll treat myself to a special birth year Guild.

 

[cupric]

I had just turned 16 s few days earlier!

 

[Rebosbro]

My birth year. One day I’ll treat myself to a special birth year Guild.

still want a guitar as old or older than me, but when your old like me, those guitars are expensive!!
Paul

 

[Rebosbro]

Again, because it’s cool.......

 

[dreadnut]

I bought my D25M earlier that year.

 

[F312]

I suppose that's what a new'n would cost, street price, give or take.

 

[chazmo]

13 for moi.

That's cool, rebosbro!

 

[Brad Little]

Not strictly acoustic/electric, but I guess semi-acoustic/electric, the receipt for my X170. Only receipt I have from the three Guilds I bought new. F212 was $200 in '65 and the Mark V was an even trade for a '40s Epi Zephyr Deluxe Regent. $876 for guitar and hard case=$1977.55 in 2021 dollars:

 

[fronobulax]

still want a guitar as old or older than me, but when your old like me, those guitars are expensive!!
Paul

The problems of a child. There are plenty of folks who are older than the Guild Guitar Company so that is an impossible dream unless they are willing to settle for Not-A-Guild.

 

[chazmo]

The problems of a child. There are plenty of folks who are older than the Guild Guitar Company so that is an impossible dream unless they are willing to settle for Not-A-Guild.

Don't do it!

 

[Brad Little]

The problems of a child. There are plenty of folks who are older than the Guild Guitar Company so that is an impossible dream unless they are willing to settle for Not-A-Guild.

Closest I've come was my above mentioned Epi, near as I can tell, possibly '48 (my year) or '49. Guitars I might want from '48 are way out of my price range until I will the Powerball.

 

[cupric]

You can't always get what you want.....
Same now as when I was young getting by on money made puddling for quahogs. There were times later on that I could have gotten anything I wanted. But there was also obligations, family, the future.... But still I've had some darn nice Guilds!

 

[Br1ck]

I remember quite a few college kids were buying Guild D 35s and 40s around 1970 or so, because a Martin D 18 was around $75 more. You could eat for two weeks on $75 back then, and there were gas wars with a gallon going for $0.299. Solid rosewood Guild for $2300 would not be too bad. Find a D 25 in playable condition for $800 these days is a deal.

 

[5thumbs]

The problems of a child. There are plenty of folks who are older than the Guild Guitar Company so that is an impossible dream unless they are willing to settle for Not-A-Guild.

Yeah, I'm one of the 'older than Guild' group.

I've thought of finding a nice 1972. That would be the same age as my beard.

 

[Rebosbro]

I remember quite a few college kids were buying Guild D 35s and 40s around 1970 or so, because a Martin D 18 was around $75 more. You could eat for two weeks on $75 back then, and there were gas wars with a gallon going for $0.299. Solid rosewood Guild for $2300 would not be too bad. Find a D 25 in playable condition for $800 these days is a deal.

My sister was sophomore in HS at the time, and a huge John Denver fan
Paul

 

[JohnW63]

Who ever filled out that second sales sheet was pretty flashy with the pen.

 

[Guildedagain]

I was still 15 for another month. I had bought a Yamaha FG75 from a buddy who needed money getting to Alaska, $75 for the Yamaha, with case that kept it in nice condition as I went on a walkabout throught the Southwest with some other folks, spent the winter in the Four Corners Farmington NW winter of '76-77. Played that guitar all over the desert. My first guitar, first love for a guitar.

I think my favorite guitar receipt is from 1980 or so if I can find it. My later very good friend who went on to own his own vintage store, gone now RIP Mark, wrote me a receipt while he was manager of a Music World for a Blonde '63 Fender Reverb Unit for $75? Nobody was buying these back then. I wouldn't be surprised if the receipt was for less.

 

[bobouz]

I was 25 in 1976, and already deep into buying guitars at flea markets to fix up & trade in for the good stuff. The good stuff consisted of four Guilds, a number of Gibsons, and a Martin. I don't think I ever paid more than $40 for a flea market find, and typically the price was more like $10-$20. More often than not, people had no idea what it was they were selling, other than the fact that it was a guitar. Those were the days!

 

[gibsonjunkie]

I managed to keep this one all these years. Still have the guitar, too...