For clarification for our new member:
The actual model number is "F15ce."
Ralf was explaining that model was all-'hog, what the "CE" stood for, and the "M" indicates the top color and is where Guild normally put a color designation.
That looks like an unstained top (First F15ce I've ever seen that way, I think!); I think "M" was used because "Natural" was normally used on unstained
spruce tops no matter what color the body was, but it was used to denote a
Mahogany (dark)
colored finish in other models.
Welcome aboard! I didn't catch you were a brand new member in your post over in "Tech"
OK that's an anomaly, it should just use the regular old 2-screw black plastic cover.
https://www.ebay.com/i/111693742938...MI8-vu4py75gIVFLvsCh1dKgkkEAQYASABEgJQSPD_BwE
(and I think that's overpriced at $7.49, could probably do better even with cost of mailing)
While you could do what you say, I suspect maybe somebody removed some wood around the truss rod cavity and took the screw hole with it?
A close-up of the truss rod access cavity would be handy, because from here it looks as though maybe the truss channel itself may not have been deep enough, making the adjusting nut itself come out too close to the nut, necessitating the too-long access cavity?
But Guild would not normally let something like that out the door or even let the neck get mounted onto an instrument.
Can't blow up your pic enough to be sure either, but could it be somebody put a washer on the end of the truss rod to increase adjustability and that's why the rod cavity is enlarged?
Leaving the TRC loose against the nut could create a buzzing issue of the TRC.
First shown in '91 catalog but it only lasted a couple of years:
https://www.gad.net/Blog/2010/08/13/guild-guitar-catalog-1990/#gallery-11
A really interesting detail on those and all pre-'94 "Fxxce" models is that
2 full octave 24 fret short scale (24-3/4") neck, readily ID'd by the second double dots on the 24th fret.
It was intended to feel like as close to an electric neck as an acoustic can feel. So if you're coming from that side it could explain why it felt so right to you out of the box.
David Byrne cherishes his F15ce:
http://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/showthread.php?178790-Guild-Sighting-David-Byrne-on-a-Guild-A-E!
And that's about all the deep background I can think of for F15ce's
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'At's the way to do it!
Well played!
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And a credit to that District Manager, too, because in fact the cash flow
ismore important than the profit dollars if it's tied up in over-aged inventory.
We've heard stories of some of their managers not "getting it" and to be fair we do know that GC's been having troubles and they did change their store manager's marching orders re pricing on "vintage" instruments, apparently they do have less discretionary latitude on pricing than they used to a couple of years ago..
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