I'd like to hear comments (especially Hans) on this guitar

[F-412Spec]

1968 Guild "Paul Simon" model Brazilian Rosewood F-30R 12-string a true Unicorn. | eBay

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[chazmo]

Hey, Brad,

I know we talked about this guitar recently. Looks like it's being flipped in this eBay ad. I'll see if I can locate the thread.

 

[GGJaguar]

Discussed here:

https://letstalkguild.com/ltg/index.php?threads/paul-simon-f30r-12-on-reverb.217305/

 

[chazmo]

^^^ THanks, GG! Yeah, Brad, that's what I was looking for!

 

[GuildFS4612CE]

Seems to be the same seller...as in it likely didn't sell via the previous listings.

 

[Wilmywood]

What is so 'unicorn' about this one?

 

[Wilmywood]

Same guitar on Reverb for $11,495

Guild "Paul Simon" model F-30R 12-string 1968 - a true unicorn an actual Brazilian Rosewood Paul Simon model as rare as it gets ! | Reverb

This is a Unicorn amongst the underground Guild 12-string world ! Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel had a very special part of my wife’s early years. Living in Kew Garden Hills, Queens, Art lived right next door. Patti used to get rides on the back of Art’s Motorcycle around the hood. Ironically, in...

reverb.com

 

[chazmo]

See the other thread, wilmy.

No conclusions, really.

 

[F-412Spec]

Interesting! Thanks for the link. Does this make the guitar one of the earliest Brazilian rosewood "performer model" acoustics out there? I know there are tons of mahogany versions (Smeck, et al), and the Whitley (Indian rosewood), some Nick Lucas models, but Brazilian seems to be the realm of the Olcott-Bickford, the old one-off Guild for (Havens?) and now.. maybe Paul Simon. I'm curious. I would love to play one of these.

 

[adorshki]

Interesting! Thanks for the link. Does this make the guitar one of the earliest Brazilian rosewood "performer model" acoustics out there? I know there are tons of mahogany versions (Smeck, et al), and the Whitley (Indian rosewood), some Nick Lucas models, but Brazilian seems to be the realm of the Olcott-Bickford, the old one-off Guild for (Havens?) and now.. maybe Paul Simon. I'm curious. I would love to play one of these.

I believe it was member @DrumBob who described the gestation of the F30R as an experiment which Mark Dronge presented to SImon one day in '67, and Simon instantly fell in love with it. Seem to recall it was also "instrumental" (heheh) in composing & performing "Mrs Robinson"

As Frono mentioned in the other thread, a 12-string version of it wouldn't surprise me. Guild had a propensity for experimentation at the time.

Seem to recall an even older discussion where the question came up but think it was unconfirmed at the time, re: if there ever was a special "Paul Simon" rosewood "F-112" which is what the 12-string version of the F30 was introduced as, in '68.

 

[F30]

i must have missed the last post about this guitar. Glad it came back up as it is a really nice guitar.

 

[DrumBob]

Actually, Mark Dronge told me that his father didn't want to build acoustic guitars at all. Mark lived in Greenwich Village at the time, was into the early Sixties folk scene there, and talked Al into it. Al also didn't want to build "plank" guitars or an electric bass. Mark was extremely influential in bringing Guild into the modern musical world.