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Greetings! I love Guilds too. I think seeing the Guild headstock logo on Tommy Smothers guitar made some kind of impression on me. My first real guitar was in 1970 when I bought a new Les Paul Custom fretless wonder. I got the itch for another guitar around 1985 when I saw a review of a Guild Nightbird GG in GUITAR PLAYER magazine. I bought one a week later: amber spruce top with Kent Armstrong pickups. It is my main player. Later I got a standard Nightbird.Then a Starfire2, a S-60, aBrian May Signature, a Starfire4, a 1968 Starfire 12 string, and a Guild-Maderia strat. The S-60 was alot of fun:I had it refretted with jumbo sized frets. That and the narrow neck just made you want to play. Out of all these 6-strings the GG Nightbird is my favorite for tone and playability. I've had 2 360 RICS but the Starfire plays much better - but the RICS do look so cool- but then again there is something about that headstock logo.....
 

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Greetings! I love Guilds too. I think seeing the Guild headstock logo on Tommy Smothers guitar made some kind of impression on me. My first real guitar was in 1970 when I bought a new Les Paul Custom fretless wonder. I got the itch for another guitar around 1985 when I saw a review of a Guild Nightbird GG in GUITAR PLAYER magazine. I bought one a week later: amber spruce top with Kent Armstrong pickups. It is my main player. Later I got a standard Nightbird.Then a Starfire2, a S-60, aBrian May Signature, a Starfire4, a 1968 Starfire 12 string, and a Guild-Maderia strat. The S-60 was alot of fun:I had it refretted with jumbo sized frets. That and the narrow neck just made you want to play. Out of all these 6-strings the GG Nightbird is my favorite for tone and playability. I've had 2 360 RICS but the Starfire plays much better - but the RICS do look so cool- but then again there is something about that headstock logo.....
 

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Welcome aboard.

I'm a fan of the "Gruhn Guilds", and will be looking for a Nightbird in the future. What's the difference between the "GG" and the "regular"?
 

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Welcome aboard.

I'm a fan of the "Gruhn Guilds", and will be looking for a Nightbird in the future. What's the difference between the "GG" and the "regular"?
 

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Welcome. Anybody who is a fan of Gruhn Guilds is a fan of mine. Or something like that. Anyway, Gruhn himself may be an Oscar Meyer, but not his guitars.
 

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Welcome. Anybody who is a fan of Gruhn Guilds is a fan of mine. Or something like that. Anyway, Gruhn himself may be an Oscar Meyer, but not his guitars.
 

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Hello! The neck on my standard Nightbird had a chuncker feel and the fret markers were smaller. The frets may have been a little thinner also. Thank you, Andrew
 

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Hello! The neck on my standard Nightbird had a chuncker feel and the fret markers were smaller. The frets may have been a little thinner also. Thank you, Andrew
 

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Andrew - welcome!

We get very personal here. Are you 50 or over?
 

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Andrew - welcome!

We get very personal here. Are you 50 or over?
 

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Wow! Another geezer! There must be something statistically significant about Guild and geezerdom (or lat least LTG and geezerdom).

Back to guitars - You mention you have a few Starfires and 2 Ric 360s. Are these 6 and/or 12 stringers? I have a Ric 360-12 - nothing gets a 12-string jangle like a Ric. When you compare the Ric to the Starfire, are you comparing 12 to 12 or 6 to 6?
 

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Wow! Another geezer! There must be something statistically significant about Guild and geezerdom (or lat least LTG and geezerdom).

Back to guitars - You mention you have a few Starfires and 2 Ric 360s. Are these 6 and/or 12 stringers? I have a Ric 360-12 - nothing gets a 12-string jangle like a Ric. When you compare the Ric to the Starfire, are you comparing 12 to 12 or 6 to 6?
 

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Squawk said:
There must be something statistically significant about Guild and geezerdom

See thread about Fender for some effects of us old farts being the market for these guitars. They'd better get something happening with younger people, or the brand will be gone.
 

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Squawk said:
There must be something statistically significant about Guild and geezerdom

See thread about Fender for some effects of us old farts being the market for these guitars. They'd better get something happening with younger people, or the brand will be gone.
 
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