For Camping and Hunting Trips

[West R Lee]

Guild DS-240 Memoir Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar Vintage Sunburst | eBay

Guild's DS-240 Memoir is a retro-looking slope shoulder dreadnought built with a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides with a sleek, gloss finish. The vintage-inspired mother-of-pearl rosette and Guild Script Logo pay homage to the classic styling of instruments from the 1920s. The DS-240...

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Anybody played one? Hey, for $450 I might have to buy one just to have one I don't worry about at all. Looks great, but how do they sound?

West

 

[dreadnut]

Chinese made. The write-ups are highly favorable on this guitar.

 

[West R Lee]

Chinese made. The write-ups are highly favorable on this guitar.

Yes, I knew they were Chinese guitars. Gosh, for $450, why not? Do you think the Chinese are putting listening devices in them? Maybe coating the inside with a virus?

West

 

[dreadnut]

Yeah for $450 you just need to get one.

 

[crank]

I bought a beat to shit but sounds great Yamaha dread for camping/beaching/boating for $100. Beat to shit means I never have to worry about dinging it or setting it down on the ground.

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[GAD]

Auto censoring?

For a very long time.

 

[GuildyAsHell]

I had one for a couple days but sent it back for several cosmetic issues. It was a fantastic player and sounded great. I’d own another but my D-25 fills that role. Love a slope shoulder and shorter scale though. Hmmm…might need to pick up another…

 

[Stagefright]

I sold my D-35 camping guitar and used the proceeds to buy a JF-55. I call the JF-55 my Glamping guitar.

 

[GGJaguar]

I call the JF-55 my Glamping guitar.

Ha, that's great! I can see companies adding that term to their marketing-speak vocabulary.

 

[twocorgis]

I really love my OM240E as a knock-around kind of guitar, and I wouldn't rule one of them out. The arched back really gives it great projection, and I got a b-stock one from ProAudioStar for $250. For a little bit more, they had the dread size D240E, which I haven't tried, but I imagine would be similarly good. They have a super thin satin finish on them, and I think that helps, too.

 

[SFIV1967]

Anybody played one?

NGD - DS-240

After recently gifting my old Epiphone L-00 to a family friends son who is learning guitar, I opened up the possibility for a NGD. Having smaller bodied guitars, I wanted something with more lower end. I rolled the dice, ordered from Sweetwater and have not put it down except for the last three...

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NGD - DS 240

Guild acoustic MIC w solid top. Definitely sounds good! Like a solid top flat-top acoustic should. No tinny sounds. Rich well balanced sound and pretty loud. Excellent workmanship. Action came a little high for my preferences but there’s PLENTY of saddle sticking up, so getting the action where...

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NAMM 2019: New P-240 and DS-240 in Westerly Collection

Alread talked about it here and here, but below is the official NAMM 2019 press release: "NAMM 2019: Guild Guitars Adds Vintage-Inspired Acoustics to Westerly Collection Lineup Two New Affordable Models Add Early 20th Century Aesthetics to Guild’s Acoustic Lineup Guild is pleased to announce...

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NGD .... DS-240 Memoir

I mostly play OM, 000, and auditorium size guitars. Although I like the sound of them, I've never liked to play dreadnoughts. I was hoping a round-shoulder one might be different because I really like the look and sound of these. Got it yesterday and I love it. You know what they look like...

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Ralf

 

[West R Lee]

On second glance........no case at that $449.......zilch, zip, nada, none. Wonder how they ship it.......just throw the guitar in a cardboard box?

West

 

[twocorgis]

On second glance........no case at that $449.......zilch, zip, nada, none. Wonder how they ship it.......just throw the guitar in a cardboard box?

West

They have very well designed specialty boxes for that. So well designed that I keep them around In case I ever have to ship a guitar without a case. My OM240E came like that.

 

[GGJaguar]

They have very well designed specialty boxes for that.

Yes, this. My Jetstar and one of my Gretsch guitars that did not have cases came in well-engineered boxes. And those boxes were placed in a larger box from the dealer. Shouldn't be an issue.

 

[Neal]

I had two F-1512’s arrive damaged in those boxes. I sent the first one back, and the second one was in even worse shape on arrival.

It all ended for the good. I bought a nice JF-30-12 off of Chasmo instead! In a top-of-the-line Guild case.

 

[West R Lee]

Well I'm getting a bit of flack from the little Mrs. I don't know, something about my saying my last guitar was my last guitar or something like that. They simply don't understand. She didn't mind the last purchase since I divested myself of two of them and got one in return. It's the gaining a guitar she's not too cool with these days.

West

 

[awagner]

Why bring both a gun and guitar on your hunting trip?

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2 birds, one bullet.

 

[West R Lee]

Why bring both a gun and guitar on your hunting trip?

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2 birds, one bullet.

Can't hunt all day and night. We have a great cabin there. All I hunt these days are pests.........in this case, feral hogs, and we do that late at night. It leaves a bunch of time, and some places out there in West Texas there isn't much else to do but drink a beer, tell stories and play cards, and a guitar would be nice.

But the guitar you've got pictured just might be perfect. Do they come in .308? And it needs a rail for the thermal.

West

 

[chazmo]

I had two F-1512’s arrive damaged in those boxes. I sent the first one back, and the second one was in even worse shape on arrival.

It all ended for the good. I bought a nice JF-30-12 off of Chasmo instead! In a top-of-the-line Guild case.

Neal,

Hope you're enjoying the JF-30-12!

That case... Heaviest (by far) chunk of wood I've ever seen for an acoustic HSC. Those custom shop cases from the '90s were insanely overbuilt.

 

[Stuball48]

Richard P. gave Johnny G. one and IMHO as good as lots of $1000 guitars.