Welcome to Guild Acoustics! I buy, sell, and collect vintage guild guitarsWelcome to Guild Acoustics! I buy, sell, and collect vintage guild guitarsWelcome to Guild Acoustics! I buy, sell, and collect vintage guild guitarsWelcome to Guild Acoustics! I buy, sell, and collect vintage guild guitars
Hello and welcome to my Guild Acoustics guitar shop. I am a huge Guild fan, and I have been buying, selling, and collecting Guilds for over 20 years. The only guitars i deal in are Guild Guitars. I prefer to buy and sell anything built prior to the Westerly Rhode Island Factory closing in 2001, so Guilds from the 1950s-2000s. However, I will occasionally offer a Guild from the Tacoma, Washington and New Hartford, Connecticut factories as well. They are also fantastic, well built guild guitars. I mainly play the top of the line models, and the most rare models. So i like to buy and sell what i would want to play and own myself. I have owned and sold some of the most rare and desired guilds ever built. I daily, guitar hunt for the best guilds, in the best condition possible to offer up for sale. I will say no to hundreds of Guild listings before i say yes, and buy one. I know what to look for, and what to avoid, to make sure that when you buy a guild from me, you can know exactly what you are getting, and there will be no surprises when you pop the case. I like to avoid any low saddles, or neck reset candidates. No body cracks or repaired crack guitars. No weather checking unless it's something really special. No major binding issues, and no worn out fretboards. I love connecting people to their favorite guild models, and selling people their first ever Guilds is a real honor and a treat for me. If there is a special guild out there that you are looking for, feel free to message me and tell me what you want, and i will find it. If i cant buy it, or its not a deal that makes sense for me, I will pass along the listing to you if I think it's a fair price and the right condition. Not looking for any kind of finders fee. I just want to help people get connected to the Guild brand. Thank you for checking out my shop and my listings.
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Send us a message or call us to ask us about ecommerce options that are available for you. Once we understand your needs, we can find you the exact guild guitar that you want in your price range. Guild D4 guild D6 guild D25 guild D35 guild D40 guild G37 guild JF30 guild D30 guild D60 guild D70 guild D80 guild F65ce guild JF65 guild F412 guild F512 guild F612 guild guitars guild acoustic acoustic guitaA vintage Guild is an American guitar with an American guitar story. The Guild Company has lived the gamut of human experience. It was created, went through a strong but turbulent adolescence, experienced marriage, blended families, loss and rebirth.
Guild T 50 Slim Hollowbody Electric Guitar
In the 1950s, Gibson acquired its chief competitor Epiphone, and in many ways Guild emerged as a high-quality alternative to those two companies. Co-founded by a former Epiphone executive, George Mann, and a music store owner, Alfred Dronge, Guild set up shop in 1952 in New York City, amid both session jazz guitarists and the craftsmen from the Gretsch and Epiphone factories. Guild hired from the group of craftsmen and received expert input from the session guitarists on building better instruments. The partnership disintegrated shortly thereafter, leaving Al Dronge to bring the company into its powerful adolescence.
Dronge hired the right people from around the world to build the first guitars. By late 1956, the company had outgrown its 1500-square-foot loft in NYC and moved across the Hudson River to a factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is here that Guild began to attract the biggest artists of the day, and the company attained a high level of market credibility.
Guild moved the factory to Westerly, Rhode Island over a three-year period between 1966 and 1969 after Dronge sold the company to Avnet, an electronics corporation. Since then, the company has changed hands several times.
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With the exception of a custom shop built in Nashville in 1995, the instruments were still built in the Westerly factory until 2001.
Aside from the general problems you're likely to find on any vintage acoustic (like finish overspray or re-spray, cracks, and high action), Guilds tend to crack in the tops from shrinking pick guards, so make sure to inspect the top for any evidence of a crack repair and overspray. The body binding and fingerboard binding on high-end models can shrink and crack.
Also, the plastic headstock veneer tends to warp or shrink on guitars from the '60s. This sort of warping is so prevalent that if you have a guitar from that era with a perfect headstock veneer, you should question whether it is original or not. The peg head veneer disappeared on lower model numbers during the 1970s and was replaced with a silkscreen logo. The veneer issue appears to have been mostly fixed by the time production moved to Westerly.
Guild M 20 Flat Top Acoustic Guitar , C. 1968
Guild built several versions of acoustic flattops. Dreadnoughts were denoted by “D” or “G” and showed up in several series: D-25, D-35, G-37, D-40, G-41, D-50, D-55, etc. Additional variations were issued throughout the 1980s and '90s.
Orchestra bodies were denoted with “F” and had a circular lower bout with a thin waist. These showed up in model numbers F-20, F-30, F-40, F-50, etc. The M-20 was a mahogany topped F-20. Incidentally, the M-20 was used on the album cover of Nick Drake’s Bryter Layter, fueling speculation that it was an M-20 which gave him his deep mellow sound.
Guild built some amazing 12-strings, during a time when other manufacturers hadn’t yet figured out how to build a 12-string that could be played like a 6-string. Those from the ‘60s are particularly coveted by 12-string players. Models included the F-112, F-212, F-412, F-512, and the mythical F-612. Also, the G-212 and G-312.
Guild Westerly Collection M 240e Troubadour Acoustic/electric Guitar In Vintage Sunburst
Unfortunately, the F and D series were developed independently of one another, so an F-50 is not always going to have the same trim and features as a D-50. With that being said, generally the 20, 25, 35 and 40 series were mahogany back and sides with a spruce top. The 50 and 55 were rosewood back and sides. Guild used Brazilian Rosewood in the early years for these guitars and had a similar cut-off to the other builders in approximately 1970. Before you get too excited about uncovering a 1969 D-50 for a good price, have an expert evaluate whether it’s Brazilian Rosewood or East Indian Rosewood, as the cut-off is not exact.
There are dozens of less common models and variations that Guild created from its foundation until the Westerly plant was closed in 2001. So many, in fact, that we’ve chosen to stick to the basics and mention only the models you’re most likely to encounter.
Guilds from all eras are considered high-quality instruments. If you are seeking out the quintessential Guild sound, you can find it in almost any vintage Guild. The company did not have one era that was better than the others, and it did not have an era known for mistakes like the other big players in acoustics. Buy what you like, and you will have made a good choice.
Ca. 1980 Eagle Gw 830 Mij / Guild D 55 Copy
The Guilds built in the New York factory are very difficult to find as they were made in small numbers and will thus be more expensive. Asking prices can reach $7, 000 for clean and high-end examples of acoustics from that era.
The Guilds built in the Hoboken factory will be the next most desirable instruments. Smaller bodied guitars, like the F-20 Troubadour can be purchased for as little as $800 in rougher condition, with clean sunburst examples being in the $1, 200+ range. Dreadnoughts from this time rarely dip below $1, 000 and can easily break the $3, 000 mark for Brazilian Rosewood models.
The Guilds built in the Westerly factory are slightly less desirable than the Hoboken models, however, the values and
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