Mrs. GaH loves her F-20

[GuildyAsHell]

After a months long process of having the train wreck F-20 rebuilt, I finally got to give it to my wife yesterday. She had suspicions, but had no idea about how involved this was , or the story behind it. Sorry for no big video reveal or anything, a couple pics will have to do. It has been a pleasure sharing this journey with you all. This is a fantastic forum.

 

[wileypickett]

Fun for the whole family! Congrats!

 

[GGJaguar]

Excellent! And they lived happily ever after.

 

[jedzep]

Great small bod Guild. Love seeing guitars that have shed their pickguards. too. A Hoboken holiday??

 

[hansmoust]

Probably the best way to have spent this (for a lot of people dreadful) year, end it and start a new one!

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[GuildyAsHell]

Great small bod Guild. Love seeing guitars that have shed their pickguards. too. A Hoboken holiday??

Check out my Trainwreck F-20 thread. This guitar shed more than its pickguard.

 

[jedzep]

Saw it! Reminds me of the L.Wainwright song, 'Red Guitar'.

 

[Opsimath]

Fabulous! Mrs. GaH does indeed look happy with her "new" guitar. Adorable children, too. I'm guessing the little miss was instrumental in decorating the Christmas tree? She did an outstanding job! No doubt you'll all be enjoying a musical family future.

Thank you again for allowing us to ride along on this guitar's journey. What a wonderful ending/new beginning!

 

[walrus]

Great photos!

walrus

 

[davismanLV]

Even though I was a tad under the weather after my booster, I wondered all day long if we were gonna get a "reveal" with the ultimate Christmas gift!! Thanks for sharing the journey with us!! Well done!!

 

[Br1ck]

That was indeed a journey into the deep waters of reconstruction. A local shop was gifted a 39 J 35 in pieces in a cardboard box. The owner and head luthier spent over a year putting it back together. He was missing a third of the top, but found period correct top with the opposite side missing. The patched up guitar was by far the most broken guitar I've ever seen. It was also the best guitar I have ever played. Sometime after I was commenting on it to the luthier, who said it was the best sounding guitar he'd ever had in the shop. Imagine when he handed it's former owner a check for two grand out of the blue.

 

[chazmo]

That's really wonderful, GaH! Merry Christmas!