Upside Down Truss Rod Covers

[Uke]

What do you think? Is this TRC upside down on this Gibson Tal Farlow archtop?

 

[davismanLV]

How would you read "CUSTOM" if it was going the other way? That's gotta be right. But it's a right handed guitar and when you're playing it would be more readable by the audience if it was flipped. Not that I'm an expert.....

I guess what I'm saying is, "I don't know."

 

[Stuball48]

MOTSUC. LOL

 

[davismanLV]

Huh??

 

[jedzep]

It's correct, looking at my Gibsons, and all others. Guilds are the ones many reverse thinking the image of a bell (shield) should hang down rather than the 'pointed' end.

 

[Uke]

So, Gibson Bells/ Guild Flowers -- I can live with that. ( X-175 photo is from GAD's website)

 

[walrus]

It's correct, looking at my Gibsons, and all others. Guilds are the ones many reverse thinking the image of a bell (shield) should hang down rather than the 'pointed' end.

Exactly! It's like every other Gibson TRC...

walrus

 

[Brucebubs]

What the... the truss rod cover is correct but the crown inlay fret marker is upside down!

 

[walrus]

What the... the truss rod cover is correct but the crown inlay fret marker is upside down!

Ha! Good catch!

But there usually isn't an inlay on the first fret anyway, so it's even more strange!

walrus

 

[Brucebubs]

Ha! Good catch!

But there usually isn't an inlay on the first fret anyway, so it's even more strange!

walrus

There is on mine .... just added a picture. Here's a full shot.

 

[walrus]

There is on mine .... just added a picture.

Oh, nice! I can't recall seeing one on the first fret - I stand corrected!

Your photo makes your original point about the inlay being upside down is even more obvious!

walrus

 

[lungimsam]

Does the Farlow have headstock decals? I see the halos around the headstock inlays.
The Guild has no inlay halos.

 

[SFIV1967]

Guild Flowers

Flowers? Where? You mean the Chesterfield ?

Ralf

 

[Velvet Phelts]

Tal Farlow fret markers are reversed.

 

[walrus]

Tal Farlow fret markers are reversed.

Ha! Of course! I didn't even see the label on the OP attachment, I assumed a Les Paul - duh!

walrus

 

[Uke]

Flowers? Where? You mean the Chesterfield ?

Ralf

Makes me think -- wouldn't a

Flowers? Where? You mean the Chesterfield ?

Ralf

Sorry -- replyus interuptus: As I was saying, a chesterfield would look great on a TRC. However, I was referring to the shape/silhouette of the cover. Wide side up (Guild) it looks like a flower bloom; Wide side down (Gibson) it looks like a bell. By the way, that pic of a Chesterfield cigarette pack takes me back to memories of my grandfather smoking Chesterfields. Obviously playing chesterfield Guilds is much healthier than puffing Chesterfield cigarettes (grandpa finally had to pay the piper.)

 

[sailingshoes72]

Flowers? Where? You mean the Chesterfield ?

Ralf

I think that he is playing a M-20 in that photo... the famous “Nike Drake” model.

 

[Uke]

O.K., I've now strayed off into the old origin of the Chesterfield debate. The story goes that Al Dronge smoked Chesterfield cigarettes, which originated in Chesterfield County Virginia. Chesterfield Co. Va. is named after a fellow named Philip Stanhope, a.k.a. 4th earl of Chesterfield, England. Here is his coat of arms -- any family resemblance to the thing on Guild headstocks? (Note the bottom of the Iron Cross on the shield).

 

[fronobulax]

O.K., I've now strayed off into the old origin of the Chesterfield debate. The story goes that Al Dronge smoked Chesterfield cigarettes, which originated in Chesterfield County Virginia. Chesterfield Co. Va. is named after a fellow named Philip Stanhope, a.k.a. 4th earl of Chesterfield, England. Here is his coat of arms -- any family resemblance to the thing on Guild headstocks? (Note the bottom of the Iron Cross on the shield).

I couldn't find it but I have a recollection of several possibilities for the origin story of Guild's Chesterfield logo being posted. But none of them tried to go "past" the cigarettes and definitely not back to a colonial era coat of arms.

 

[Uke]

I couldn't find it but I have a recollection of several possibilities for the origin story of Guild's Chesterfield logo being posted. But none of them tried to go "past" the cigarettes and definitely not back to a colonial era coat of arms.

I'd be willing to bet Alfred Dronge knew nothing about the 4th Earl of Chesterfield or Chesterfield County Virginia ; and probably wouldn't have cared !