Discolored pins and saddle?

[dwasifar]

Bwahahahaha!!!! I love it. dwasifar, you're busted.... ish.

Mea Nissan Maxima culpa.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Continuing the license plate veer, when I sold my 1980 BMW R100RT, I surrendered the plate to a nearby New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles office. Pandemic protocols were in effect, so I handed the plate to the security guard at the door who told me to wait a minute and he'd return with a receipt.

He returned with the receipt and three of the guy working inside - they wanted to see what ancient specimen turned in a plate that had been continuously registered for 40 years.

 

[plaidseason]

Hey, dwasifar, I hope I didn't throw a "monkey wrench" into your investigation. For the record, I'm quite fond of rosewood for bridges, and I don't know for certain that's rosewood. In the past, Guild has used ebony on its F-50R models, but they've used rosewood for the F-512 bridge so the mixing of woods on similar models is not a new thing. So, I guess I'm saying that even if they made a mistake on your D-55, I'm not sure that it matters at all or that Guild will be bound by the specs to do anything about it. More to the point, maybe you don't want them to do anything about it if you love the guitar. I wouldn't. The leeching of color on the saddle and the pins does not necessarily mean that they dyed the bridge or anything unnatural.

Anyway, good luck in the discussions. We'll be interested to see what you find out.

Just to add to this (and hopefully I didn't miss someone else already adding to this). Many builders prefer rosewood bridges (Lowden, for example) and commonly use a rosewood bridge with an ebony fretboard.

So mistake or not, to me, this is a bit of a win.

 

[davismanLV]

Just to add to this (and hopefully I didn't miss someone else already adding to this). Many builders prefer rosewood bridges (Lowden, for example) and commonly use a rosewood bridge with an ebony fretboard.

So mistake or not, to me, this is a bit of a win.

True. Don's Avalon (first year after taking over from George Lowden) has a rosewood bridge and ebony fretboard. They do it on purpose.