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[Rebosbro]

The D is because it has 2 pickups?!?
2 tone and 2 volume controls?!?

Guild S60-D 1978 white | Reverb

A great example of the Guild S60-D finished in the more unusual white which is nicely fading to cream. These guitars are of an excellent quality and are great players. It has two pickups hence the ''D'' with two volume and two tone controls and a three-way pickup selector switch. The tailpiece is...

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[fronobulax]

Well they might not be as wrong as it seems. The catalog lists a 1 PU S-60 with a Guild Humbucker and a 2 PU S-60D with 2 DiMarizos. While other models use the D designation for DiMarizos for this model, since all dual pickup versions had DiMarizos maybe the D means dual pickups and DiMarzios are assumed

 

[GAD]

Those models have confusing names.

 

[walrus]

frono, nice job channeling Ralf with that post!

walrus

 

[Brucebubs]

So what does the 'F' stand for in Guild jumbo's?

 

[Rebosbro]

Frono

 

[SFIV1967]

So what does the 'F' stand for in Guild jumbo's?

Now that's a veer from a S-60D to a "F" in a Jumbo! Sure you are in the right thread?
Anyway, Guild's original prefix "F" was used for acoustic flattop guitars. (F-30, F-40, F-50). It had nothing to do with Jumbos other than that a F-50 is a jumbo. Decades later prefixes like JF (Jumbo Flattop) were used.

Ralf

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Now that's a veer from a S-60D to a "F" in a Jumbo! Sure you are in the right thread?
Anyway, Guild's original prefix "F" was used for acoustic flattop guitars. (F-30, F-40, F-50). It had nothing to do with Jumbos other than that a F-50 is a jumbo. Decades later prefixes like JF (Jumbo Flattop) were used.

Ralf

I always thought F was for Folk!

 

[SFIV1967]

I always thought F was for Folk!

I just looked in Hans book on page 48. And I guess in the '50s the word "Folk" was in no way related to flattop guitars, or?

Ralf

 

[dreadnut]

Aren't all non-archtops flattops?

 

[Rambozo96]

F=Freakin ‘uge

 

[SFIV1967]

Aren't all non-archtops flattops?

I guess so. Hans wrote on page 48 that initially electric hollowbodies were given the X, acoustic archtops the A and acoustic flat tops the F.
Ralf

 

[adorshki]

Aren't all non-archtops flattops?

Great question. The only thing that occurs to me is that I think "flat-top" traditionally applies to steel-stringed instruments, as opposed to "classical" guitars, for instance.

I guess so. Hans wrote on page 48 that initially electric hollowbodies were given the X, acoustic archtops the A and acoustic flat tops the F.
Ralf

And classicals were "Marks" which seems to go along with my "guess". (?)