SFIV1967
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Gruhn only shows 60 as last S/N in 1985. So much less compared to D-64.Has anyone ever seen a D-62?
Ralf
Gruhn only shows 60 as last S/N in 1985. So much less compared to D-64.Has anyone ever seen a D-62?
Why do you think your guitar had a repaired crack on the back, Glenn?
But they only show the back of the D64!
walrus
edit - or perhaps his guitar has a second "center seam" type of brace, somewhere else.
Snake head was Gruhn era. G shields have been around for a while and I don't think there is any consistent rule about when they were, and wern't, used. I'm probably wrong too because I am using memory and not The Book.I'm probably going to be corrected, but I think the G-shields are the Gruhn designs. Or the snakeheads are the Gruhn designs? OK, I guess I don't know for sure...
walrus
Hi Glenn. I did own one but I can't really remember the guitar. If my historical records are right the sn # was K00100019 and it looks like I sold it in Nov. of 2017 I believe to another LTGer but I can't remember who it was. I wish I still had it. (but I can say that about quite a few guitars I've let go over the years).Anyone know how many D64s are out there?
There's the one I bought from Walrus years ago (KC100006). I don't think I've ever heard tell of another, either in the wild or here on LTG.
There were a number of weirdnesses with this particular guitar.
It's definitely a righty, but the original saddle slot was angled for a lefty guitar, so the intonation was off. (How did this happen?!)
There was also a crack to the back of the guitar which apparently occurred during manufacture and was repaired by Guild before the guitar left the factory.
After being repaired it was stamped "factory second," and sent to a shop where our own Walrus bought it brand new. (The fact that it was new when Walrus bought it suggests that it came from Guild in the state it was in, and that the repairs were done by them. Lending further credence to it being fixed by Guild: the back crack was cleated with the same strips of wood that run down the inside center of the backs of Guild guitars -- which you can see through the soundhole, stamped "Guild.")
It was Walrus's main guitar for years, but when dreadnaught-sized guitars began causing him discomfort, he moved to smaller-sized guitars and offered the D64 for sale. In spite of all its oddnesses, it sounded fantastic. Though Walrus had done general maintenance upkeep over the years, when I bought it it was in pretty much the same shape as when he bought it.
Work I had done: I had the original saddle slot filled with matching rosewood and a new properly angled slot routed and a bone saddle installed. I also upgraded to 18:1 tuners.
It's one of the best sounding Guilds I've ever played.
Anyone know of other D64s? Andrew? Richard?
Hi Glenn. I did own one but I can't really remember the guitar. If my historical records are right the sn # was K00100019 and it looks like I sold it in Nov. of 2017 I believe to another LTGer but I can't remember who it was. I wish I still had it. (but I can say that about quite a few guitars I've let go over the years).
It's called old age Glenn.See above -- Treem has that guitar now!
Hmm, that catalog from 86 makes me wonder what deterimes whether they put a Chesterfield on the headstock versus nothing versus the G shield? Is there a rhyme and reason?
I defer to @The Guilds of Grot although I think if you expand the question to 60+ years of Guilds and include electrics there are exceptions. But I will stand correctedOh absolutely there is. Lowest level instruments (20 & 30) get nothing. Mid-level get the Chesterfield (37, 40 &50), high end get the "G-Shield". (55 & up). The F-44 is a high end smaller bodied "F" shape.
Snake head was Gruhn era. G shields have been around for a while andI don't think there is any consistent rule about when they were, and wern't, used. I'm probably wrong too because I am using memory and not The Book.
Another exception is the D40 which has see sawed back and forth at timesI defer to @The Guilds of Grot although I think if you expand the question to 60+ years of Guilds and include electrics there are exceptions. But I will stand corrected.
Oh absolutely there is. Lowest level instruments (20 & 30) get nothing. Mid-level get the Chesterfield (37, 40 &50), high end get the "G-Shield". (55 & up). The F-44 is a high end smaller bodied "F" shape.
16" is smaller than the 17" F-50.I agree that's the general rule for the last 40-ish years.
One note is that the F-44 (aka GF30M) isn't that small - it's a 16" lower bout F40/Gibson J185/Martin 0000-ish in size.
Walrus: do you remember where you bought the guitar?