micmac
Junior Member
I discovered GUILD's guitar though their GAD' ones flooding guitarshop in my country. Very nice guitars, big sound , all solids woods but something was annoying me: my feeling is they're too light, have maybe too much renonance, little lack of definition and lack of medium range. For instance, GAD 40C is lovely but it gives a bad impression of brittleness to me.
GAD JF30 is the only model which convinced me. I immediately smelled myself more reassured with this guitar: better rigidity, more subtle sonority and much more definition and in particular the treble range.
But this JF30 is definitely more expensive than the other GAD. This price - let us say $900 -, one can find here very good American or Japanese guitars in second hands.
A friend advised me to test "true" american Guild before if required investing in a chinese JF30. I could test 2 new Guilds models in a shop: D55 and F50R. And then...brothers, I saw the light.
I could compared these 2 Guilds with Gibson J45, SJ200, Taylor GS, Martin HD28 and so on... With my ears, my hands and my eyes, D55 is incontestably the best guitar I played in this store. F50 Rosewwod is an excellent guitar also, but too near to D55 and with a sound when same a little less interesting with my taste. It's a pity that there was not Mapple arched back F50, because I think that would have been the occasion to taste the "real" Guild jumbo sound.
Useless to specify that me budget does not enable me to invest more than $2500 in a guitar. I am thus turned over to test this GAD JF30 to see how I felt it after having had D55 between the hands. It is undeniable that these 2 guitars do not play in the same world. The sound of GAD JF30 has much less dynamic, is less detailed, less resonance, less richness in mediums, less subtlety in the basses, less brightnesses in the treble. It is thus obvious that these GADs are not guitars which can compete with guitars 2 times more expensive... in the Guild mark in any case. But I am not an enough expert for saying if the GAD are with the height of what one can await from Guild of level entry.
4 days ago, I noticesed that some US reseallers sells NOS white labelled Corona JF30
At comparable price, I suppose you would you prefer to buy the Corona JF30 than the Chinese JF30.
But what do you think about paying $300 more to buy a NOS corona you never had in your arms ?
Thank for your advises
Please apologize my level 3 english
Greetings from Paris, France.
GAD JF30 is the only model which convinced me. I immediately smelled myself more reassured with this guitar: better rigidity, more subtle sonority and much more definition and in particular the treble range.
But this JF30 is definitely more expensive than the other GAD. This price - let us say $900 -, one can find here very good American or Japanese guitars in second hands.
A friend advised me to test "true" american Guild before if required investing in a chinese JF30. I could test 2 new Guilds models in a shop: D55 and F50R. And then...brothers, I saw the light.
I could compared these 2 Guilds with Gibson J45, SJ200, Taylor GS, Martin HD28 and so on... With my ears, my hands and my eyes, D55 is incontestably the best guitar I played in this store. F50 Rosewwod is an excellent guitar also, but too near to D55 and with a sound when same a little less interesting with my taste. It's a pity that there was not Mapple arched back F50, because I think that would have been the occasion to taste the "real" Guild jumbo sound.
Useless to specify that me budget does not enable me to invest more than $2500 in a guitar. I am thus turned over to test this GAD JF30 to see how I felt it after having had D55 between the hands. It is undeniable that these 2 guitars do not play in the same world. The sound of GAD JF30 has much less dynamic, is less detailed, less resonance, less richness in mediums, less subtlety in the basses, less brightnesses in the treble. It is thus obvious that these GADs are not guitars which can compete with guitars 2 times more expensive... in the Guild mark in any case. But I am not an enough expert for saying if the GAD are with the height of what one can await from Guild of level entry.
4 days ago, I noticesed that some US reseallers sells NOS white labelled Corona JF30
At comparable price, I suppose you would you prefer to buy the Corona JF30 than the Chinese JF30.
But what do you think about paying $300 more to buy a NOS corona you never had in your arms ?
Thank for your advises
Please apologize my level 3 english
Greetings from Paris, France.
