Thanks! Seven…wow! Maybe, you never know
Congrats on your collection as well!NGD - My first 12 string...
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Congrats on your collection as well!Good to know. So I should probably take necessary precautions to keep it from reacting with the polymers.
SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Yes! Also any guitar straps that have vinyl. Or you get a more expensive stand from Hercules, they are usually very safe for Nitro. But even they don't want to bet about it, see first question:
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Ralf
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Stay away from surgical tubing or anything rubber.
3C4S
Junior Member
Nice acquisition. I just picked up a JF-30 12 Friday, and love it. Mine is a 2001 from Corona, so I do not have the maple neck...Seems to have been a run on this model lately...Also like you, I monitored the forum before jumping on recently...Lots of knowledge they share here...Dave
Zelja
Senior Member
Congratulations Ksounds. These are great guitars & glad you like yours.
Beware - my first Guild was also a JF30-12 - now I have a few more!
Beware - my first Guild was also a JF30-12 - now I have a few more!
Cougar
Enlightened Member
Haha, mine, too. Mine is out of Corona. I've since got a rosewood-backed F512 out of Oxnard and a mahogany-backed F212XL out of New Hartford.
Cougar
Enlightened Member
Nice collection! Early on, I always wanted a Gibson J45, but when the walnut backed J15 came out, the reviews were over the top, and for $1,350 I got in line for a new burst Gibson J15 from Music Villa in Bozeman. MEANWHILE a near mint New Hartford Guild F50R popped up on reverb, and the seller dropped the price two or three times in the first week or so. I put in an offer for a few hundred more than the J15 would have been and came out with this fabulous jumbo 6-string. NEVER LOOKED BACK.
Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Yegads, we can still talk about tone-woods freely here ;[]
Mmmm Bear Claws, why is it certain forum members are such enablers, even when they're not planting a seed for more GAS ;[]
Is there in emoticon for crying?
It could/should be Nitro, so beware of hangers, ugh... and other instruments of guitar torture.
It goes without saying, don't leave it "laying in a chair"* with cats and kids around, etc...
I love the multi piece flamed Maple neck, Guild amazes, always.
* These stories always end with "Then I heard a huge crash from the other room" but if it's a Westerly Guild it barely has a scratch on it ;[]
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Sage advice for so many discussions on so many forums… this may be worth adding to a signature, or two.
That amber-colored latex rubber tubing of yesteryear can be readily dissolved by the solvents that continue to flash off Nitrocellulose Lacquer finishes. At the very least, it becomes gummy and sticky which, in turn, interacts with the finish on the instrument and, before you know it, you have a soft, gummy goop on the back of your guitar neck, exactly in the place where your hand is least expecting it.
Slicone tubing, on the other hand… (no, don’t attempt to play the guitar with silicone tubing on the other hand). What I mean to say is, BY CONTRAST, silicone tubing (eg, silicone surgical tubing) may not interact negatively with NCL. Then again, there are hundreds of formulas for Nitrocellulose, especially post 1998 when the EPA mandated formulaic changes. We said “bye-bye” to the good ol’ stuff of the 50s and 60s.
adorshki
Reverential Member
Actually Westerly was still in production through August of '01 and "clearing out" and shipping until November. First year for Corona would be '02.
I don't think that's right, Al.Actually Westerly was still in production through August of '01 and "clearing out" and shipping until November. First year for Corona would be '02.
adorshki
Reverential Member
I have a letter from Fender stating my F65ce was shipped FROM WESTERLY in November of '01. It's known established history.
They stopped taking orders in late summer. The last guitar built in Westerly was an AA delivered to its owner in September IIRC, but the year was '01.
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Whatever. If you're saying there was no Corona in 2001 then I think you're wrong.I have a letter from Fender stating my F65ce was shipped FROM WESTERLY in November of '01. It's know established history.
They stopped taking odrders inlate summer. The last guitar built in Westerly was an AA delivered to its owner in September IIRC, but the year was '01.
adorshki
Reverential Member
I didn't say that, but first official production year for Corona flattops is '02. Only some electrics were made in Corona in '01, and practice builds for flattops. Some production building may have occurred but they're dated as '02's.
Also, Corona used a different s/n system, all prefixes started with "C", and @Ksounds 's** guitar is clearly a Westerly s/n.
** Note: In confusion between the 2 owners posting here, I said @3C4S had the Westerly s/n, but I was looking at @Ksounds 's pic. So, "corrected"
3C4S says he's got a CTT s/n so it has to be a Corona, and nothing completed in Westerly ever got a "CTT" prefix.
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adorshki
Reverential Member
Not sure what you're saying, they weren't building in Westerly in November/December, and have never seen absolute confirmation they were making flattops for regular production in Corona prior to '02 (like late '01), even though it seems extremely likely.
But a CTT was built in Corona and nowhere else.
txbumper57
Enlightened Member
"No Colonel Sanders you're wrong. Mamma was right." LOL. Regardless that is a beautiful example of Guild 12 string Maple Goodness. I hope you enjoy it for a long time to come. Looks like it rolled off the factory floor yesterday!
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Oh I was just saying he posted he had an ‘01 and you said can’t be. Though I recalled his recent thread that showed his had the CTT serial number. Now I don’t know what year it is and maybe he didn’t for sure either, but if he was sure on the date, and we do know it’s a CTT serial#, and if your statement was true as well, that there was no Corona production in 01, well then we’d have a mystery… unless it was made in late 01.Not sure what you're saying, they weren't building in Westerly in November/December, and have never seen absolute confirmation they were making flattops for regular production in Corona prior to '02 (like late '01), even though it seems extremely likely.
But a CTT was built in Corona and nowhere else.