It’s a Tacoma guitar. TK1300XX is the serial#. 2007. Beautiful flame on the back, open back tuners. I think red spruce top too.
YES on red spruce, synonymous with Adirondack Spruce, or "Adi".
I see Tom caught you up re tonal qualities while I was off for the weekend, but another benefit of Adirondack is that it's got better torsional stiffness than sitka by weight, so bracing can be lighter but yield equal strength than traditional sitka bracing, contributes to better top resonance.
That also allows for thinner
tops themselves which can vibrate more freely, which is also part of why it's prized for tops.
But yes takes a little longer to "open up" or "break in" than sitka.
Tacoma was first Guild factory to use it, for bracing on all except 2 made-in-Mexico models , and tops on the F40, F47, F30, and the "Bluegrass" D40's and D50's.
Is there a similar book for post 77 Guilds out there?
Not that I'm aware of, but member GAD has downloaded a ton of catalogs and price lists from all eras and much can be gleaned from careful perusal of those, always bearing in mind that catalog specs were subject to change without notice, and there are some outright errors in 'em:
https://www.gad.net/Blog/2019/08/28/gads-guild-catalogs-price-lists-ads-flyers/
It amazes me how much you all know about Guilds.
Virtually everything I know about 'em I picked up here, I sure there're plenty of others that applies to, too.
And yet even after ten years there's still stuff that pops up that surprise me.
It's part of the charm and mystique of the brand, or at least, up until Corona.
Seems the percentage of "off-spec" builds went way down after close of Westerly, which is kind of understandable, because special orders and one-off builds were just part of the shop culture up through the Westerly years.
So the catalogs are a good guide to "what was supposed to be standard" but this is the only place where we can ask Hans if an oddball guitar is actually a legitimate factory build.
Or as an example sometimes things like tuner specs are hard to find and not readily visible or spec'd outright in the catalogs, such as when I tried to check whether Tacoma was using 'em, since I've become aware my poor old memory just ain't what it used to be.
Didn't have time to check enough online listing pics (let alone there's precious few of 'em), so went with my memory and lo and behold you've noted that Tacoma F47
does have open tuners.
That could only happen here.
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Don't know about Beecee, but I'd cross the street to avoid it! I don't like maple...
Assuming you've heard enough of it to know your own tastes, can't argue with that...
don't like cutaways, and don't like a bunch of gadgets to fool with.
Again, a personal taste issue, no prob, but I do want to stick up for Guild's Fishman installation in that it's "Plug and Play" and only needs a little learning curve to understand settings, and is still offered by Fishman to this day, an indicator of how of just how good a design it
was ,back in the early '90s'.
Give me a plain old folk guitar any day!
Y'mean like this first year '63 F47?:
Yah I'm messin' wit ya buddy, couldn't resist.
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