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Hi all, this is my first post here but I’m a longtime lurker. Maybe this is a bizarre question but how different are the arch back d25s when the only difference is the top wood? Is it similar to the way a d28 vs d18 would be?
So, quick story as to why I’m asking. Right before the pandemic I purchased a guild d25.. it was at guitar center for $579. It was the mahogany top/arch back model and I loved everything about it. Within a couple days of bringing it home there was a bunch of buzzing and the bridge was raising up…. … guitar center wouldn’t take it back or fix it because it was “vintage” so then the pandemic started and long story short, the guild stayed in its case.
Within the last couple months I decided to get it repaired. It ended up needing a neck reset, bridge reglue, and I installed a fairly expensive pickup system into it. Over $1000 spent on it. I almost didn’t do it because I have a nice Gibson J45 and a booteek $5000 acoustic I love but somehow I like the guild the most? every note sounds full.. it plays and sounds great but my big issue (and maybe it’s just my bias against mahogany tops being somewhat dull) is that I like hearing the individual notes in a chord. The guitar is almost too warm if that makes sense. Sometimes changing chords everything feels like it blurs together (?).
So I’m sitting here feeling like I have an amazing hog top guild but I have been thinking a lot about trying to find a nice spruce top d25 as that may be exactly what I’m looking for.
Just rambling. I hope you guys can see where I’m going with this.
Thanks in advance.
So, quick story as to why I’m asking. Right before the pandemic I purchased a guild d25.. it was at guitar center for $579. It was the mahogany top/arch back model and I loved everything about it. Within a couple days of bringing it home there was a bunch of buzzing and the bridge was raising up…. … guitar center wouldn’t take it back or fix it because it was “vintage” so then the pandemic started and long story short, the guild stayed in its case.
Within the last couple months I decided to get it repaired. It ended up needing a neck reset, bridge reglue, and I installed a fairly expensive pickup system into it. Over $1000 spent on it. I almost didn’t do it because I have a nice Gibson J45 and a booteek $5000 acoustic I love but somehow I like the guild the most? every note sounds full.. it plays and sounds great but my big issue (and maybe it’s just my bias against mahogany tops being somewhat dull) is that I like hearing the individual notes in a chord. The guitar is almost too warm if that makes sense. Sometimes changing chords everything feels like it blurs together (?).
So I’m sitting here feeling like I have an amazing hog top guild but I have been thinking a lot about trying to find a nice spruce top d25 as that may be exactly what I’m looking for.
Just rambling. I hope you guys can see where I’m going with this.
Thanks in advance.