you know, the good old arch-back 'hog with spruce top.
Yes, but couldn't that be said of any model?I’d guess they don’t want to cut into their sales of their overseas arch backs:
D-240E Natural | Guild Guitars
Guild’s signature arched back design allows for great volume and projection, long sustain, and a lush, full sound.guildguitars.com
This is a little sideways because prior to the takeover of Guild by Cordoba the GAD (i.e., MIC) versions of the D-25 were all solid mahogany -- tops and not arch-backs, that is. Indeed, now the Westerly Series "200" guitars are arch-backs, and I guess a D-240 is the closest thing to the older D-25 in the line-up.I’d guess they don’t want to cut into their sales of their overseas arch backs:
D-240E Natural | Guild Guitars
Guild’s signature arched back design allows for great volume and projection, long sustain, and a lush, full sound.guildguitars.com
Not necessarily, Marc. We can't really know this without hearing from Cordoba on the reasons behind it.Yes, but couldn't that be said of any model?
Yes it is. Whatever they're doing in Asia is newer equipment, Woody. Maybe they got some production stuff from Ensenada, where the Arcos series was built years ago, but I doubt it. I think that was a Fender facility (not that that's conclusive).Isn’t the arched press in Oxnard?
Ah, senility! Everything is new again!I believe we've had this conversation before. Several times.....
That GSR D25E looks typical of Cordoba's GSR guitars: a fairly standard guitar (in this case a D20) with a special California burst and a couple of other changes to appointments (and in this case to model name), at a higher price. The promotional materials state that it is based on the first iteration of the D25, so all mahogany and flat back.I thought there was a limited run D25 listed recently on Reverb at about $2700. For that price I’d just stick to finding a good vintage one.
I suspect that most of the market for a domestically produced and priced, arch back D25, are members of Let's Talk Guild.
And I'd guess that Cordoba market research has concluded something similar.
Because in their mind, the D-20 they currently make is close enough and probably sells well.
And my take is that aside from Taylor, a good portion of the mid-to-high end acoustic market these days is centered around things that are at least familiarly Martin or Gibson like. Light builds. Aged tops. And the prevalence of ivoroid and butterbean tuning machines and stuff like that on import guitars, etc. I love all that stuff (and even replaced the heavy "Grover" tuners on my inexpensive Simon & Patrick, to improve the mojo, and drastically reduce the weight.I'm in agreement with you. We are a cult, for lack of a better term. The arch back is one of guitar's most misunderstood concepts.