Hi everyone!
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I'm awfully glad to have found you folks. I figured there had to be someplace online for Guild info and discussion - looks like I was right.
I'm afraid I only have one Guild to call my own, but I love her a lot. She's a 1980 D25CH ("CH" = nice cherry stain), and she just came into my hands last summer. I'd always wanted a Guild acoustic, but prices were just out of reach, so when a random websearch turned up this one at a local guitar shop at the friendly price of just over $650, I scraped together all the cash I had (plus a couple other guitars I wasn't playing) and made her mine.
The shop was very upfront about the one downside - the top had once suffered a hairline crack, which had since been expertly repaired. On the upside though, they had installed a nice LR Baggs 'iBeam' active pickup, so I'd be all set to plug-n-play, which is a big deal for me.
I've been playing for a long while, started around 1980. I've played and owned a pretty wide variety of instruments, but never anything that fit so well to my hands. Factor in the incredible voice, and well... heh. I'm a believer.
Sorry for gushing, I'm very much looking forward to meeting you all...
- Eric
** waves to Lonesome Picker **
I'm awfully glad to have found you folks. I figured there had to be someplace online for Guild info and discussion - looks like I was right.
I'm afraid I only have one Guild to call my own, but I love her a lot. She's a 1980 D25CH ("CH" = nice cherry stain), and she just came into my hands last summer. I'd always wanted a Guild acoustic, but prices were just out of reach, so when a random websearch turned up this one at a local guitar shop at the friendly price of just over $650, I scraped together all the cash I had (plus a couple other guitars I wasn't playing) and made her mine.
The shop was very upfront about the one downside - the top had once suffered a hairline crack, which had since been expertly repaired. On the upside though, they had installed a nice LR Baggs 'iBeam' active pickup, so I'd be all set to plug-n-play, which is a big deal for me.
I've been playing for a long while, started around 1980. I've played and owned a pretty wide variety of instruments, but never anything that fit so well to my hands. Factor in the incredible voice, and well... heh. I'm a believer.
Sorry for gushing, I'm very much looking forward to meeting you all...
- Eric