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Sal

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Guild guitars have for the most part really been their own thing with a unique identity. That old lip-top headstock design was tasteful. They should bring it back for some of their vintage stuff. Heck, there are an awful lot of Strat style headstocks out there. So what. On the flip side, a bad headstock design can ruin a guitar for me. Music Man electric guitars look intriguing but the entire line uses a headstock so tiny it's silly.
 

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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Al Dronge start his guitar building at Gibson or Epiphone?
If he did, that may be why his early guitars had a Gibson look to them.
Dronge owned a music store in NYC during the ‘30s & ‘40s. He sold the store in the late ‘40s. He also imported & sold accordions. To my knowledge, he never worked for Gibson or Epiphone, but his business partner at the beginning of the Guild venture was George Mann, who had worked for Epiphone - and they hired a number of Epiphone employees.
 

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That old lip-top headstock design was tasteful. They should bring it back for some of their vintage stuff.
I was told my Mike Lewis back in 2013 at NAMM that FMIC tried using it for the Guild Newark St. guitars but Gibson did not allow it as they somehow have a trademark or something on that shape now (if I remember correctly what Mike told me).

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Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Al Dronge start his guitar building at Gibson or Epiphone?
If he did, that may be why his early guitars had a Gibson look to them.

I will go one step farther and say that to me some of the early Guild guitars had a Gibsonish sound to them.
The good Gibsonish sound!

You're wrong. The fact is some early Guild employees had previously worked for Epiphone.
 
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