Newbie with lots of questions!!! - Guild electrics history

[audiophil]

Thanks guys! I read all your posts with great interest. Very nice information. It’s really a great place here!!! Unfortunately, i was outbid on this one. Couldn’t really go higher. Had to consider the extra 14% of taxes to the final price, plus the extra 85$ of brokerage fees applicable here in Canada.

Maybe the next one will be mine…

Cheers!

Phil

PS: Nice place Coastie99. I wish i can go to NZ one day!!!

 

[Squawk]

...Had to consider the extra 14% of taxes to the final price, plus the extra 85$ of brokerage fees applicable here in Canada....

We US folks have to pay brokerage fees when purchasing a guitar from Canada as well. When I bought an archtop last year, both the Canadian seller and I found this out the hard way - after the fact. As all other aspects of the deal were great, so we just split the cost - also in the neighborhood of $85 if I recall.

 

[coastie99]

Thanks guys! I read all your posts with great interest. Very nice information. It’s really a great place here!!! Unfortunately, i was outbid on this one. Couldn’t really go higher. Had to consider the extra 14% of taxes to the final price, plus the extra 85$ of brokerage fees applicable here in Canada.

Maybe the next one will be mine…

Cheers!

Phil

PS: Nice place Coastie99. I wish i can go to NZ one day!!!

S'funny how you can get a little complacent with what's in your own backyard, Phil. I'm certainly aware that I live in a very special place, but I've seen photo's of some of the guys here's backyards, and I think "Wow, you don't need to come to N.Z.; look what you've got."

I'd love to visit the north of Canada and Alaska, with as little human contact as possible. Looks so pretty. I literally wept when that bastard Exxon Valdez incident took place.
So far, we've managed to keep our backyard fairly clean.

Coast-tied.

 

[audiophil]

I agree these accidents are very scary. Big companies like Exxon & such only think about money and don’t care for environment. Things like that should not happen.


Yes there lots of beautiful places in Canada, like everywhere else in the world. I never went to Northern Canada neither, another nice place to visit…

All the best,


Phil

 

[Graham]

It seems to me as I get older I appreciate the simple things more.

As a kid, traveling by car to cottages or campgrounds, the trip was long and uneventful. Now Cid and I will hop into the car and drive specifically to see where the road was cut through the rock, or to see the change in tree colour in the fall. Gazing at an ebony sky littered with white stars, planets, and moving satellites always stops me in my tracks now.

Standing on the shore of one of our Great Lakes and just listening to the waves roll in, or tasting the salt in the air of the Atlantic and the cool chill is very comforting. Seeing the approach of the Rockies, for miles and miles, camping in Banff, visiting Pier 21 in Halifax, simply awe inspiring.

Canada is a vast wonderful country that I need to see more of, and not the cities, rather the forests, lakes, coastlines, the big skies on the prairies, the small towns along the way.

Oh, and Montana. :mrgreen:

 

[Jeff]

Wife & I spent 10 days in a canoe here in the early 70's , Bowron Provincial Park, BC.

Montana has a better selection of Guild Guitars, about 50 miles out that a way.

Bing K, Guitars of Montana.

 

[Darryl Hattenhauer]

Coast-tea,

Would it be about right to say (for the briefest of descriptions) that going from north to south in NZ is like going from Polynesia to Norway? I do know for sure that Polynesia is a good description of my memory.

Jeff,

Where is that second photo from?

 

[Jeff]

Coast-tea,



Where is that second photo from?

Missouri River, facing East from Great Falls, Montana.

Here's the road thru the Rockies, most indirect route I could find from the West Coast.

Locals along the way are an enterprising lot

Couple thousand miles South, give or take, from this scenic wonder

 

[coastie99]

Coast-tea,

Would it be about right to say (for the briefest of descriptions) that going from north to south in NZ is like going from Polynesia to Norway? I do know for sure that Polynesia is a good description of my memory.

Hattie, old flower.

Auckland (Dorkland), our largest city, is also the biggest Polynesian city in the world. For better or worse !
Apart from that, the North Island is probably pretty much like anywhere else; a mix of this-and-that.

The South Island is quite different. Largely mountainous, with populated relatively narrow strips on the East and West Coasts.
Far more picturesque; mountains, lakes, fiords, native bush,big rivers and considerably less population than the N.I. Which is not to say that the N.I. doesn't also have attractive scenery.

Norway ? Perhaps in the West Coast fiords. What would probably strike North American visitors most, is the "compactness" of it all; you need travel only a comparatively short distance to see the good bits.
I'm sure the air-quality here on the Coast, and the S.I. in general, would be highly noticeable to a lot of you too.

 

[JerryR]

Think Lord of the Rings scenery. I suspect Coast Tea was an extra (without make-up) as part of Gimli's people

 

[coastie99]

Think Lord of the Rings scenery. I suspect Coast Tea was an extra (without make-up) as part of Gimli's people

I auditioned for the part of Arwen, but got turned down. Pete said I didn't have the legs !

 

[zom-zom]

I recently purchased a Starfire III that a board member had for sale, it's a Corona-made model.

I've been playing it like crazy for the past month or two, it's very well-made, the finish is great, the thing is really flawless. Sounds different than anything else I've played, and I've played pretty much everything.

I wanted a hollow-body or semi-hollow and opted for the SFIII to get a true all-hollow sound. I play fairly loud and have had no problems with feedback.