Westerly Wood
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Nice! Yeah, my D-25 was $300 in '76, with a hard shell case. It's on it's 3rd case now, wore out the other two cases, but the guitar is still going strong so I guess they did their job!
This D25 cost $225 in 1971. Really? Yes.
Nice! Yeah, my D-25 was $300 in '76, with a hard shell case.
wow, $300 with a case in '76. so in 5 years the D25 went up well, nothing? i keep forgetting in the 70s when real inflation all of a sudden happened.
I enjoyed that. Nicely done and thank you.
Nice one Woody!
Well, depending on when exactly you bought it during 1976 the list price of a D-25 was $ 340.00 or $ 360.00. A hardshell case would set you back $ 75.00 (or $ 95.00 if you bought the plush lined one), so your D-25 with case listed for well over $ 400.00 during that time.
The $ 300.00 you payed for it indicates they gave you a discount of at least 25%, which was a good discount for a period when people started expecting to pay less than the official list price for a new product. Discounts went totally crazy during the '80s!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
And would the flatback vs arched back made no change in cost really outside of inflation of 225-340 in that time frame? What I am asking, and not in a real clear way , is the 225-340 inflation or the fact they priced higher for arched due to the extra work involved with pressing? and i could be wrong re extra work, maybe arched is easier build...
Hello Woody,
If you look at the gradual price increase of the D-25 between 1970 and 1976 and you compare that to the price increase of the D-35, you will see that they both follow a similar pattern. In the case of the D-35 the price went from $ 275.00 to $ 395.00.
And even though there's a small amount of extra labor involved with the manufacture of a braced back, it doesn't look like the introduction of the arched back on the D-25 resulted in a smaller price increase compared to the D-35.
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
Very nice, indeed. I thought, though, that you are a dig in strumming kinda guy. Obviously you can do it all! Thank for sharing.
Thanks Hans, not only did I get a lifetime guitar, I guess I got a deal on it too! I was sold on both the tone and the beauty of the wood on my D-25; I went there figuring on coming home with a Martin. (Of course it didn't hurt that this Guild was about $250 less than the Martin D-18.)