Br1ck
Senior Member
I feel the urge to post after having my D 35 back from it's extensive repair work. I've been playing this guitar now for a couple of weeks, with the same strings it came back with (SIT Royals). Pretty much everything I was excited about still has me enthusiastic about the guitar. I've had the chance to go back to Gryphon and play a few dreads to compare. I originally saw no need to have both my Guild and a D 18, but I now see that if I was looking for a bluegrass cannon sound, I'd need one, but a lot of what you need for bluegrass, volume, power, and bass, is kind of opposed to much of what the Guild D 35 has to offer, which is a very even balance across the strings and a very sweet and present treble. The D 35 is a great guitar to sing with, and a very capable finger picking machine.
I just recently got my Martin M 36 back (rosewood/ sitka) so took some time to play them side by side. There is no doubt the Martin is way lusher sounding with just a kick *** bass. This guitar is just this side of too much of a good thing, the reason I really don't care for most rosewood dreads, the D 55 excepting. I can see where Guild defined their sound as balanced rather than the Martin's bassier voicing.
Once again, a guitar points out good reasons to have many, but certainly I could live with the D 35. It does pretty much everything well. I have worn out the strings though. Hope it sounds good with the Elixer Polywebs I use, as the hands don't cooperate with uncoated strings. I could however, live with one guitar strung with uncoated strings. What do you all use on D 35s? The SITs sound really good to me. D'Adarios next up just because I have a set.
I just recently got my Martin M 36 back (rosewood/ sitka) so took some time to play them side by side. There is no doubt the Martin is way lusher sounding with just a kick *** bass. This guitar is just this side of too much of a good thing, the reason I really don't care for most rosewood dreads, the D 55 excepting. I can see where Guild defined their sound as balanced rather than the Martin's bassier voicing.
Once again, a guitar points out good reasons to have many, but certainly I could live with the D 35. It does pretty much everything well. I have worn out the strings though. Hope it sounds good with the Elixer Polywebs I use, as the hands don't cooperate with uncoated strings. I could however, live with one guitar strung with uncoated strings. What do you all use on D 35s? The SITs sound really good to me. D'Adarios next up just because I have a set.
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