For Sale: D40 BLUEGRASS JUBILEE: EARLY NEW HARTFORD PROTOTYPE

[Greenwoods]

FOR SALE: GUILD D40 EARLY NEW HARTFORD PROTOTYPE

GUILD D-40 BLUEGRASS JUBILEE - A PIECE OF NEW HARTFORD HISTORY !!!
This is one of the very early protos off the line in New Hartford as they retooled the factory from Ovation production to Guild production. Guitar has no serial number. Didn't even come with a pickguard so I added one after the fact. This guitar is stunning both sonically and cosmetically. The sound of the full sized dread is everything you would imagine plus a little dash of extra mojo thrown in when nobody was looking.

GUILD D-40 WEBSITE

This baby is equipped the D-TAR Wave-Length Lock-N-Load pickup and pre-amp system with controls nicely hidden on the edge of the soundhole. Sounds amazingly warm and transparent. I did not use the guitar much plugged in, but on the few times that I did, it really sounded great.

D-TAR SYSTEM

Guitar (and case) is in 100% perfect as-new condition. Has never left my house. Has zero signs of wear. Not a mark on it at all.

GUILD D-40 SPECIFICATIONS:
- Dreadnaught size, non cutaway
- Solid red spruce top
- Solid mahogany back and sides
- Gloss nitrocellulous lacquer finish
- Tortoise body binding
- 3 piece mahogany/walnut/mahogany neck
- Rosewood fretboard 1-11/16" nutwidth
- Dual action trusd rod
- Bone nut and saddle
- Rosewood bridge
- Gotoh vintage open gear tuners
- Deluxe hardshell case

PRICE: $1350. plus $65 S/H in the 48 US States

NOTE: Those are streaks in the wood top, NOT CRACKS!!! This guitar is 100% perfect as-new condition with not a single mark on it.

Email of PM me if you are interested or have questions. THANKS

 

[JimmyD]

Streaks of happiness. Imagine how beautiful that top will be in 10 years. This demands a picture of the back of the neck and body. Encore.....

 

[Greenwoods]

Photos of the back of the guitar are very difficult to take due to the gloss finish and reflections, but I tried these.

While doing the photo I did notice one small nick where the guitar rests on its stand - I circled it in yellow so you can see it. Didn't want to fail mentioning this.

 

[davismanLV]

I have to wonder why, if you're putting a pickguard on a Guild, that you wouldn't use a GUILD shaped pickguard. I'm sure it's a very nice guitar.

 

[chazmo]

Good luck with the sale, Greenwoods. That's a very cool prototype. Did they end up using a real, ebony faceplate for this model, as yours has? Also, do you know if this was built in 2008 (before they started shipping the D-55s) or 2009?

Hope to see you again sometime at a future LMG event where we can play "Hey, Soul Sister" together. Sorry we didn't see you at LMG4.

 

[Greenwoods]

I got it in late 2008. I do have a new guild pickguard if somebody wants to carefully remove the one that's on there and put on the guild version.

 

[killdeer43]

I got it in late 2008. I do have a new guild pickguard if somebody wants to carefully remove the one that's on there and put on the guild version.

I'd be happy to do it....where shall we meet? layful:

Joe

 

[Greenwoods]

LABOR DAY SALE: NOW THROUGH MONDAY $1100 + S/H. PM me if interested. Thanks

FOR SALE: GUILD D40 EARLY NEW HARTFORD PROTOTYPE

GUILD D-40 BLUEGRASS JUBILEE - A PIECE OF NEW HARTFORD HISTORY !!!
This is one of the very early protos off the line in New Hartford as they retooled the factory from Ovation production to Guild production. Guitar has no serial number. Didn't even come with a pickguard so I added one after the fact. This guitar is stunning both sonically and cosmetically. The sound of the full sized dread is everything you would imagine plus a little dash of extra mojo thrown in when nobody was looking.

GUILD D-40 WEBSITE

This baby is equipped the D-TAR Wave-Length Lock-N-Load pickup and pre-amp system with controls nicely hidden on the edge of the soundhole. Sounds amazingly warm and transparent. I did not use the guitar much plugged in, but on the few times that I did, it really sounded great.

D-TAR SYSTEM

Guitar (and case) is in 100% perfect as-new condition. Has never left my house. Has zero signs of wear. Not a mark on it at all.

GUILD D-40 SPECIFICATIONS:
- Dreadnaught size, non cutaway
- Solid red spruce top
- Solid mahogany back and sides
- Gloss nitrocellulous lacquer finish
- Tortoise body binding
- 3 piece mahogany/walnut/mahogany neck
- Rosewood fretboard 1-11/16" nutwidth
- Dual action trusd rod
- Bone nut and saddle
- Rosewood bridge
- Gotoh vintage open gear tuners
- Deluxe hardshell case

PRICE: $1350. plus $65 S/H in the 48 US States

NOTE: Those are streaks in the wood top, NOT CRACKS!!! This guitar is 100% perfect as-new condition with not a single mark on it.

Email of PM me if you are interested or have questions. THANKS

LABOR DAY SALE: NOW THROUGH MONDAY $1100 + S/H. PM me if interested. Thanks

 

[SFIV1967]

Good luck in the sale! I am surprised it hasn't sold yet! Maybe bad time of the year. That's a special guitar indeed.
Ralf

 

[Greenwoods]

I have a new GUILD pickguard that I will include in the case so you can swap it if you like

 

[11earl]

Is the top Adirondack?

 

[Greenwoods]

I have no clue if Adi or not. Is there a way I could tell?

 

[Neal]

Definitely an Adirondack top. You can tell from the grain pattern, which tends to be a bit more open than sitka, especially closer to the edges. The color of an Adi top also tends to be a little lighter than sitka, and a little "whiter", less golden than sitka.

Adi also tends to have narrower streaks running along the grain, as this one does. That's a really pretty top on this one.

The price is very attractive as well. Every Adi-topped Guild I have played has been outstanding, from both Tacoma and New Hartford.

Neal

 

[SFIV1967]

You actually even wrote in the description of your guitar that the top is Adirondack! (Adirondack = Red spruce).
Ralf

 

[Greenwoods]

Learn something new every day. Didn't know that red spruce was the same as adi.

 

[SFIV1967]

Learn something new every day. Didn't know that red spruce was the same as adi.

Quoted from an article on "Tonewoods" by Dana Bourgeois:
"Adirondack Red Spruce was plentiful in our country before the war and was used on many of the great pre-war guitars. Eastern red spruce, also known as Adirondack or Appalachian spruce, was the primary topwood used by American manufacturers before World War II. Its use was all but discontinued due to over-harvesting of the resource but has recently been reintroduced thanks to 50 years of regeneration and to the legendary status that this traditional tonewood has attained. The small size of most logs and a shortage of wood conforming to market preference for even color and regularity of grain conspire to keep the price of red spruce extremely high.

Red spruce is relatively heavy, has a high velocity of sound, and has the highest stiffness across and along the grain of all the topwoods. Like Sitka, it has strong fundamentals, but it also exhibits a more complex overtone content. Tops made out of red spruce have the highest volume ceiling of any species, yet they also have a rich fullness of tone that retains clarity at all dynamic levels. If players and builders were able to overcome phobias about unevenness of color, grain irregularity, minor knots, and four-piece tops, many more great-sounding guitars could be produced while the supply of potentially usable red spruce is still available. Old-growth woods are disappearing so fast that such an attitude change will need to be scheduled sometime in the near future, unless the majority of new guitars are to be made of synthetic materials."

More here: http://adirondackspruce.com/guitarwood2.htm
"Adirondack Spruce is red spruce (picea rubens), but not all red spruce could be properly called Adirondack. In close to twenty years of prospectiong for log sources, we have determined that red spruce from the higher elevations of the northern Appalachians consistently has the stiffness and resonance our customers expect. With the exception of two small areas, our experience with red spruce from near the northern limit of its range in Canada and from the coastal areas has been disappointing. Stiffness was not up to our standards for Adirondack Spruce nor were these soundboards as acoustically live. Despite the nice appearance, we could not in good conscience market this spruce as Adirondack. In our estimation, Adirondack-grade red spruce is found almost exclusively within the U.S. border."

Another source: http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/features/woods/top-woods/adirondack-spruce

And: http://www.lmii.com/products/mostly-wood/tops-tonewood/adirondack-red-spruce

Ralf

 

[Greenwoods]

Wow, thanks Ralf for the great insights on Adi / Red spruce. Gez, sounds like I need to up the asking price !!!

 

[airbournesailor]

Wow looks like a beauty!!

 

[Greenwoods]

Price reduced to $995. + S/H. Would make a GREAT xmas gift !!!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/GUILD-D40-BLUEGRASS-JUBILEE-NEW-HARTFORD-PROTOTYPE-w-CASE-/281514766150?

 

[killdeer43]

Price reduced to $995. + S/H. Would make a GREAT xmas gift !!!

I'll be sure to tell my wife. Might save her a lot of shopping time! :triumphant:

Joe