Hi Steve, another happy "
GSR F-20 Cocobolo" (the full official name) owner here! My one is 29 days younger than your one.
Now we are 3 on LTG who own one of the max. 20 made. (LTG member F312 (Ralph) also owns one, his is one day younger than your one).
The back on your one looks spectacular!
Here's a screen print from the Guild webpage back in November 2012:
The text read:
"
This limited special run version brings a fresh twist to the classic F-20 platform by combining elegant cosmetic touches with a Carpathian spruce top and cocobolo back and sides to produce a sweet sounding guitar with a beautiful and refined look.
Other special features include ivoroid body binding, cocobolo headcap with Mother-of-Pearl “Vintage G” logo, ebony fingerboard with abalone “G” at the 12th fret, ebony bridge with “Parisian Eye” bone bridge pins, abalone rosette, custom Gotoh open back tuners with white “G-Shield” buttons, and a pure nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Available in Natural (821).
Each guitar comes with a Guild® leather strap and Planet Waves soundhole humidifier. Limited to 20 pieces worldwide."
The specs were:
Body
Body Shape: Concert
Body Back:
Solid Cocobolo Body
Sides: Solid Cocobolo Body
Top:
Solid Carpathian Spruce Gloss Nitrocelluslose Lacquer
Bracing: Adirondack Red Spruce
Rosette: Inlaid Pearl
Purfling: Black/Ivoroid/Black Body
Binding: Ivoroid
Part: 3851210821
Neck
Number of Frets: 20
Position Inlays: Pearl dots.
Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305 mm)
Fretboard:
Ebony
Neck Material: 3-piece Mahogany/Walnut/Mahogany
Neck Finish:
Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Nut Width:
1.6875" (43 mm)
Scale Length: 24.75" (62.9 cm)
Hardware
Hardware Finish: Gold
Bridge: Ebony
Bridge Pins:
Bone with Parisian Eye Gold and Pearl insert
Tuning Machines: Gotoh Custom Gold open style Vintage Tuners w/Custom Guild Logo Ivoroid Buttons
String Nut:
Bone
Saddle:
Bone Saddle
Pickguard: None
Miscellaneous
Strings: D'Addario EXP 16 Coated Phosphor Bronze (.012-.053 )
Accessories
Case: Deluxe Case
The 20 of them (we don't know if all 20 were ever built) were produced from mid 2012 into mid 2013, the earliest serial number I have recorded was NP223005 and the last I have is NQ17x004. There are for sure slighly earlier and later numbers, I don't have them all in my files. I have seen pictures of only 10 of them so far.
10 should have been sold in North America and 10 in Europe. (I have not seen any in Asia yet).
Here is a quick shot of my one (outside but not in a good light).
It actually took a while until she opened up. When I got her she felt "stiff" and "soulless" to me, but after some playing time she sounds great for such a small body!
By the way, this was the first one ever built in 2012, the one they used for the pictures of the website, I don't know the serial number or who owns her now:
Did Elderly have any sound clips on line?
No, that was back in year 2012!
Ralf
Didn't you look at the very first picture ???