slowhand61
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Guild D-40Bluegrass Jubilee: Why I don’t hear much about it?
Yesterday, taking advantage of some President Day’s spare time, I visited one of my very local dealers to sample some name-brands guitars. The place is small and the acoustic room can fit one player (maybe two) at the time, I was alone and that made a great deal.
The usual array of Martin, Gibson, Taylor and Guilds were hanging on the wall.
I mainly sampled the Guilds traditional series and some Martins Standard series; I have to say that there was a plain Jane D-18 that, despite the rusty strings, deployed an amazing bear clawed Sitka top and sounded surprisingly open, loud and bright; a truly great example of a D-18 without that usual tightness typical of a brand new guitar.
I have to say that these new Guilds are awesome sounding guitars, since this was my second close-encounter with the Tacoma-made production and was truly impressed by the very lightly construction, superb workmanship, very resonant and with a distinctive timber.
I sampled a super D-55 (Sitka/EIR), an excellent D-40 Ritchie Heavens (Sitka/Mahogany), an amazing F-50 (Sitka/Maple) and an unbelievable D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee (Adirondack/Mahogany) w/DTAR.
The D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee (in Vintage Sunburst) was IMO the best of the batch; a great sounding dreadnought, very well balanced, with an excellent string-to-string separation and lovely warm & resonant midranges; this baby can respond very well and retain remarkable focus to finger-picking, flat-picking as well as light strumming, while it can be easily overdriven if hardly strummed (probably because of the Adirondack top). The fully glossed neck and 1 11/16 at the nut make a great comfortable combination in terms of playability and an overall amazing value.
The Guild D-40 BJ unfairly won the comparison with the Martin D-18 because of the different top wood choices (it had more punch in the mids, more depth, it was more guitar overall) and I would have loved to A-B it with a D-18V or D-18GE, but this was not an option.
Does anyone had the chance to play back to back these models and compare them?
I understand that the Guild D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee was recently re-introduced in the market, but my question is why I don’t hear much about this model?
Thanks for your inputs!
:wink:
Yesterday, taking advantage of some President Day’s spare time, I visited one of my very local dealers to sample some name-brands guitars. The place is small and the acoustic room can fit one player (maybe two) at the time, I was alone and that made a great deal.
The usual array of Martin, Gibson, Taylor and Guilds were hanging on the wall.
I mainly sampled the Guilds traditional series and some Martins Standard series; I have to say that there was a plain Jane D-18 that, despite the rusty strings, deployed an amazing bear clawed Sitka top and sounded surprisingly open, loud and bright; a truly great example of a D-18 without that usual tightness typical of a brand new guitar.
I have to say that these new Guilds are awesome sounding guitars, since this was my second close-encounter with the Tacoma-made production and was truly impressed by the very lightly construction, superb workmanship, very resonant and with a distinctive timber.
I sampled a super D-55 (Sitka/EIR), an excellent D-40 Ritchie Heavens (Sitka/Mahogany), an amazing F-50 (Sitka/Maple) and an unbelievable D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee (Adirondack/Mahogany) w/DTAR.
The D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee (in Vintage Sunburst) was IMO the best of the batch; a great sounding dreadnought, very well balanced, with an excellent string-to-string separation and lovely warm & resonant midranges; this baby can respond very well and retain remarkable focus to finger-picking, flat-picking as well as light strumming, while it can be easily overdriven if hardly strummed (probably because of the Adirondack top). The fully glossed neck and 1 11/16 at the nut make a great comfortable combination in terms of playability and an overall amazing value.
The Guild D-40 BJ unfairly won the comparison with the Martin D-18 because of the different top wood choices (it had more punch in the mids, more depth, it was more guitar overall) and I would have loved to A-B it with a D-18V or D-18GE, but this was not an option.
Does anyone had the chance to play back to back these models and compare them?
I understand that the Guild D-40 Bluegrass Jubilee was recently re-introduced in the market, but my question is why I don’t hear much about this model?
Thanks for your inputs!
:wink:
You'll make me blush.