Finally picked up the Guild after it having spent the last three weeks with the luthier. He did a setup, finish buff, replaced missing piece of headstock binding, and stabilized a crack on the top. Excellent work, you'd never know the new binding is new!
It really is a beautiful sounding guitar. Every note rings and there's nice punch on the low freqs.
It's a shame the guitar was so abused and neglected. I can't understand how someone would buy what had to be a flagship Guild guitar at the time and treat it like a beater. It spent at least one Maine winter in the trunk of a car. The case looks like something from Spinal Tap. Surprisingly there are not scratches on the back and side. The horizontal marks in the picture are reflections or some sort of camera artifact. The action is good, but the bridge is just about bottomed out so it will need a neck reset in a few years.