Westerly Wood
Venerated Member
- Joined
- Mar 21, 2007
- Messages
- 13,503
- Reaction score
- 6,768
- Guild Total
- 2
It took a while. Remember, I bought this from Bonneville 2+ years ago due to right shoulder issues, and it's slimmer depth (4 inches vs 5 of my dread) really moved the shoulder closer to the body and thus solved the issue. It was completely ergonomic. I was even able to return to the BR (dread) after about 6 months of playing the F30r...
However, over the last couple months of playing the F30R, I have come to appreciate other things of this guitar:
The Ebony fretboard, which is very smooth and slick and easy on the pads. As most Guilds I have owned, the fretboard is rosewood. Ebony is a harder wood, and provides a nice surface for soloing and fingerpicking.
The Tone of Rosewood. The R of course stands for rosewood, and while I have gravitated to hog for a while now, decades even, I been really liking the depth and sustain of indian rosewood.
It's slender, couch playing fame. I keep reaping the benefit of the 4 inch depth. For a while, I wished it was 4.5 inches, as that would have produced a larger sound, but now I am appreciating the full 1 inch thinness. It's just so darn comfy. On Passover, we had a bunch of people at the house to celebrate the feast. One friend is a gigging musician around town. Towards the end of the night, he asked if he could check out the Guilds, which I was only happy to do. I handed him the BR and then the F30R. He kept playing the F30R...
It's just a better built, adorned Guild acoustic. It's really no comparison, certainly not a fair one, the D25BR is base model acoustic. The F30R has gold hardware, chesterfield etc, it's a nice touch.
Pretty cool!
However, over the last couple months of playing the F30R, I have come to appreciate other things of this guitar:
The Ebony fretboard, which is very smooth and slick and easy on the pads. As most Guilds I have owned, the fretboard is rosewood. Ebony is a harder wood, and provides a nice surface for soloing and fingerpicking.
The Tone of Rosewood. The R of course stands for rosewood, and while I have gravitated to hog for a while now, decades even, I been really liking the depth and sustain of indian rosewood.
It's slender, couch playing fame. I keep reaping the benefit of the 4 inch depth. For a while, I wished it was 4.5 inches, as that would have produced a larger sound, but now I am appreciating the full 1 inch thinness. It's just so darn comfy. On Passover, we had a bunch of people at the house to celebrate the feast. One friend is a gigging musician around town. Towards the end of the night, he asked if he could check out the Guilds, which I was only happy to do. I handed him the BR and then the F30R. He kept playing the F30R...
It's just a better built, adorned Guild acoustic. It's really no comparison, certainly not a fair one, the D25BR is base model acoustic. The F30R has gold hardware, chesterfield etc, it's a nice touch.
Pretty cool!