highwayman
Junior Member
Great news about the baritones. Can't wait to play one, especially keen on the 8string. Will take while, though, till they will be available here in Germany. I would prefer a shorter scale (26,77 inch or 68 cm)
With the arched-back F50R's that makes 3 and I've got this nagging suspicion there's one more out there I'm forgetting..but for sure, arched rosewood back is the least common of all Guild flat-top body configurations.
And F5ce's and some early F50R'sDCE5's also have an arched rosewood back.
I did forget about that, but the model itself was "order only" at the time and not really "regular production", and so could be more easily tailored to the customer's wishes. That particular one is more of a one-off than a true production model, although possibly more than just that one was made.There was also an arched back F512.
1970 Guild F-512 Brazilian Rosewood w/ F-612 Inlays
Hi y'all... [This is ] my 1970 Guild F-512 flattop acoustic 12 string guitar. I bought this guitar many years ago from the original owner. He was in a Kingston Trio cover band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After a number of successful shows in the New York area sometime around 1971/1972...letstalkguild.com
Veer started to remind Tom there were some actual regular production arched rosewood back models in Guild's history.And after all, the talk was about laminated Rosewood in Westerly Collection 200 models anyway...
Ralf
I'm intrigued but I doubt I could handle that 27" scale.
Thanks for the link Ralf! Interesting article by George Gruhn in Vintage Guitar about the origin of the 12-string guitar and the history of Guild, Martin & Gibson manufacturing 12-strings.There was also aa as an arched back F512.
1970 Guild F-512 Brazilian Rosewood w/ F-612 Inlays
Hi y'all... [This is ] my 1970 Guild F-512 flattop acoustic 12 string guitar. I bought this guitar many years ago from the original owner. He was in a Kingston Trio cover band in the late 1960s and early 1970s. After a number of successful shows in the New York area sometime around 1971/1972...letstalkguild.com
I’ll admit I’m intrigued by the idea of acoustic baritones. I’m primarily a bassist but I’ve wondered how well a baritone would fit in a small acoustic ensemble vs an acoustic bass.
There were at least 2 "regular production" arched rosewood back models, but granted they were both pretty short-lived, less than 3 years each:
D5ce
F5ce
With the arched-back F50R's that makes 3 and I've got this nagging suspicion there's one more out there I'm forgetting..but for sure, arched rosewood back is the least common of all Guild flat-top body configurations.
Bob Weir talks about his in an 2017 Acoustic Guitar mag. If you don't have the movie Festival Express you can see Bob's in action here.
"Bob Weir says that Garcia usually played his Martin D-28 during the acoustic sets (which turned up at shows sporadically through 1970), while Weir favored a Guild: “On the occasions that someone put an archtop in my hands, I was taken by how well they pro-jected,” he told me in a 2005 interview, “and though I wasn’t about to go with an archtop for the style of music we were playing, the sheer volume was pretty impressive, so I said to Mark Dronge [of Guild, who had a close relationship with the Dead], ‘Why don’t we do a flattop with an arched back? It’d be loud and have a beauti-ful tone.’ “There were three of them made—one for me, and [Dead roadies] Ram Rod and Rex Jackson each got one. It’s an F-50 archback with an oversized peghead, which improves the sustain. It’s one of the prized guitars in my col-lection—the first one I ever designed. I used it in the ’69-’70 acoustic sets and played it a lot on the Festival Express [a trans-Canadian train trip in the summer of ’70 featuring the Dead, the Band, Janis Joplin and many others].”
Very good point John! 8 string sets are indeed rare and I only know one available set originally made for Taylor Guitars who offers 8 string Baritone guitars since more than 10 years.but where do you get a set of strings for that?