Well guys, it came today and I just can't put it down...! This is my first real Guild and my first vintage guitar and it is blowing me away I can't believe what Ive been missing.
First thing I noticed is how HEAVY it is, I absolutely love it. Feels so solid, built like a tank, feels so good sitting there playing it! Projects and strums so beautifully. I did not expect this guitar to sound so good fingerpicked too, really punchy and resonant. The saddle is really low and although the action is perfect playing wise there's just a little bit of buzz fuzzing in the overtones when I strum harder and the high E on the 10th fret is really noticeably buzzing so Ill take it to the luthier on monday probably and get that checked out and replace the nut and saddle with bone (looks like tusq now?). I don't know much about luthiery but can they file the fret or something and fix the buzz on just one fret/one string? Or does something like this entail raising the whole action to get it off that fret or a whole refret job? Not sure, seems like a whole refret would be too much to fix just one note and raising all the action a bit much too? Don't get me wrong the action is lower than what most luthiers would ever recommend so getting it up just a bit would probably solve the problem but I jus tdont want to sacrifice action on all the other strings once they're sounding fine just to get the buzz out of that one note (it's not THAT bad but if Im doing a run and hit that 10th fret on the E it doesn't ring crystal clear and buzzes pretty hard if Im really diggin' into it).
But overall I couldn't be more happy, Ive never laid hands on such a beautiful sounding guitar (maybe with the exception of one or two high end models at the store that happened to be set up right?).
I wanted to believe that the loyalty here on the board was more placebo and somewhat of a 'religious community' sort of phenomenon that brought every D-25'er together but if the others out there sound anything like what's sitting here with me now, they're definitely something to rave about! I will record something in the next couple of days and share it here.
First thing I noticed is how HEAVY it is, I absolutely love it. Feels so solid, built like a tank, feels so good sitting there playing it! Projects and strums so beautifully. I did not expect this guitar to sound so good fingerpicked too, really punchy and resonant. The saddle is really low and although the action is perfect playing wise there's just a little bit of buzz fuzzing in the overtones when I strum harder and the high E on the 10th fret is really noticeably buzzing so Ill take it to the luthier on monday probably and get that checked out and replace the nut and saddle with bone (looks like tusq now?). I don't know much about luthiery but can they file the fret or something and fix the buzz on just one fret/one string? Or does something like this entail raising the whole action to get it off that fret or a whole refret job? Not sure, seems like a whole refret would be too much to fix just one note and raising all the action a bit much too? Don't get me wrong the action is lower than what most luthiers would ever recommend so getting it up just a bit would probably solve the problem but I jus tdont want to sacrifice action on all the other strings once they're sounding fine just to get the buzz out of that one note (it's not THAT bad but if Im doing a run and hit that 10th fret on the E it doesn't ring crystal clear and buzzes pretty hard if Im really diggin' into it).
But overall I couldn't be more happy, Ive never laid hands on such a beautiful sounding guitar (maybe with the exception of one or two high end models at the store that happened to be set up right?).
I wanted to believe that the loyalty here on the board was more placebo and somewhat of a 'religious community' sort of phenomenon that brought every D-25'er together but if the others out there sound anything like what's sitting here with me now, they're definitely something to rave about! I will record something in the next couple of days and share it here.
