As I have already written, it was an unspeakable stroke of luck that I bought this guitar from far away, in the middle of the Apulian nowhere, where it stood in a guitar store almost 14 years originally packed in a storage room - although no one knows how it got there.
This GAD-50E was new-old-stock and, in this burst, it’s extremely rare. I love this Guild and I don’t see that I get it back from a professional in any other visual condition than perfect, exactly as I gave it to him. I expect, I demand, that a Luthier treats my property with as much love and care as I do myself - whether we are in a pandemic or not.
If I treated equipment entrusted to me this way, I would have long gone bankrupt in the marketing and film industry. And regarding the pandemic issue, which I don't think is appropriate and didn't even want to comment on:
I’m an investigative journalist in Austria, we are currently at the sad peak of incidence worldwide. Our children are being sacrificed by the government, more and more end up in hospital with severe courses. More and more are dying. But this is not an argumentation that should justify bad, inaccurate, loveless work. I know that there are worse things than this. But there always have been.
I’ve played my first guitar, a Guild GAD M-120E, which I have owned since 2012, every single day for a year. Even my kids. Yet it looks like new and doesn't have a single scratch on it. It's all about the way you treat things.