-ike-
Junior Member
hello!
i would like to introduce my self, my name is ike and i am brand new to this board.
as you might notice by my bad english, i am from germany.
i have registered to this board, because i am looking for lots of good informations on a Guild D25 acoustic guitar. i had once the chance to play one a couple of month ago, and since this time i am searching for one here in germany.
last week, I found one that was reachable for me, so I bought it. and exactly here is the point on which i need your help….
i do know, that Guild has started to build the D25 in the good old days before Fender bought Guild. i think that was in 1995. since then Guilds are not Guilds anymore but so called “Fender-Guilds”. i have red, after Fender took over Guild, the quality of the Fender-Guild guitars decreased.
is that true on all those guitars or does is appear to those couples of Guilds made after (Fender) Guild was moved to corona in 2001?
all Guild D25 that i ran across, have been made in RI and all of them have been either in natural finish or in a cherry-colored finish.
and here is my second question. all Guild D25 that i have seen had “D25” or “D25 CH” written on its lables inside the guitar. the D25 that I bought is in tobacco burst and the pre-owner told me it has a mahagony top. if so, should the lable inside should read “D25 M” right?
well if so, it does not on the guitar that i bought. it simply reads D25. does this mean it was simply not written in, or does it mean its an spruce top? I have found a pic on the i-net, showing nearly the same grain as my Gild has on its top –maybe you could judge this better than me…
talking about Guilds, there is one more thing that comes to my mind…
here in germany we can have a Guild DV-4 – I have red that those guitars are made in mexico. what can you guys tell me about its quality? are they as good as a “real” US build Guild?
talking about those “new” guitars, i can not see (for viewing) a difference between the DV-4 and the D40 Bluegrass Jubilee – except the vintage tuners and the adirondack top on the D40. what else is the difference between those two guitars?
thank you for listening.
regards,
ike :wink:
p.s. cannot attach my pic - sorry....
i would like to introduce my self, my name is ike and i am brand new to this board.
as you might notice by my bad english, i am from germany.
i have registered to this board, because i am looking for lots of good informations on a Guild D25 acoustic guitar. i had once the chance to play one a couple of month ago, and since this time i am searching for one here in germany.
last week, I found one that was reachable for me, so I bought it. and exactly here is the point on which i need your help….
i do know, that Guild has started to build the D25 in the good old days before Fender bought Guild. i think that was in 1995. since then Guilds are not Guilds anymore but so called “Fender-Guilds”. i have red, after Fender took over Guild, the quality of the Fender-Guild guitars decreased.
is that true on all those guitars or does is appear to those couples of Guilds made after (Fender) Guild was moved to corona in 2001?
all Guild D25 that i ran across, have been made in RI and all of them have been either in natural finish or in a cherry-colored finish.
and here is my second question. all Guild D25 that i have seen had “D25” or “D25 CH” written on its lables inside the guitar. the D25 that I bought is in tobacco burst and the pre-owner told me it has a mahagony top. if so, should the lable inside should read “D25 M” right?
well if so, it does not on the guitar that i bought. it simply reads D25. does this mean it was simply not written in, or does it mean its an spruce top? I have found a pic on the i-net, showing nearly the same grain as my Gild has on its top –maybe you could judge this better than me…
talking about Guilds, there is one more thing that comes to my mind…
here in germany we can have a Guild DV-4 – I have red that those guitars are made in mexico. what can you guys tell me about its quality? are they as good as a “real” US build Guild?
talking about those “new” guitars, i can not see (for viewing) a difference between the DV-4 and the D40 Bluegrass Jubilee – except the vintage tuners and the adirondack top on the D40. what else is the difference between those two guitars?
thank you for listening.
regards,
ike :wink:
p.s. cannot attach my pic - sorry....
