Best Guild Investment?

[fuman]

Rich Cohen is selling an X-500 on the forum right now, and while I wouldn't call it an "investment" necessarily, it is a tremendous value on a very desirable model. I'm not a jazz guy, but even so I am tempted.

 

[Uke]

If you aren't going to play it, there are better investments.

PittPastor, I think this about sums it up, IMO. But there are advantages to this investment talk. My wife is under the impression that my guitars are good investments; I just let her go on believing that so it makes it easier to purchase another one from time to time. I've even told her that I don't buy them for "investments" but she just doesn't want to believe that, and so I don't push it. Seriously, an instrument needs to be played. There are other less animate objects [yes, guitars have an anima !] out there on which to park your money. Thus endeth the sermon.

 

[Atam22]

Guitars are terrible investment, plus the barrier to entry for real investment in guitar is pretty high, something is sure, it's not a bad idea if you want to actually play it as well, but seeing that just as an investment is not a good idea as your money would be better elsewhere imo.

 

[jfilm]

For an investment, I'd keep the cards- they take up much less space and I think there will always be interest in that set, as long as there is interest in the sport of baseball. But if you want a nice guitar that you can actually use and play, I think "investing" in an older Guild could work out in terms of not losing a lot of value, or possibly appreciating in value (somewhat). Hoboken acoustics I think are fairly sought after and there really aren't many out there- I've been looking for an F-30 this past year, and only a handful have come up (for example). The Hoboken electrics seem to command pretty high prices as well. It's just that with older guitars you often will need to sink some money into them to get them up to par, and random repairs can really add up. So I'm basically saying what everyone else has already said - probably not a good investment in the traditional sense.

 

[Norrissey]

I've been looking for an F-30 this past year, and only a handful have come up

I believe @donnylang is selling a nice Hoboken F-30 right now FYI

 

[mavuser]

depends on what your definition of investment is.

you also need to figure out if you want a full hollow or semi hollow Guild, as they are worlds apart on many levels.

my guess is u want a semi hollow. thus, the answer is most likely 1970 Starfire-5, or 1970 Bluesbird. or else, any Starfire-4 or Starfire-5 made between 1971-1994, or possibly an 80's-90's Nightbird, or Nightingale (since u asked)