12 Guild à la Kottke
Hello, just discovered this great forum. I always liked Guild guitars, but I've never been lucky enough to own one.
Now, well, now I'm thinking to make up for that.
It's time for me for a second 12 string guitar. I play a Taylor LKSM with .013 medium gauge in open tunings. I only play fingerstyle (no strum) in the style of Leo Kottke. Now I need a 12 to play in standard tuning 1 full step low.
Well, I fell in love with those '60-'70 beautiful vintage Guilds. I was thinking about an F212, but maybe some other model in your opinion is better. Can you give me some suggestions? What do you think about the sound? And about the neck playability in this specific style? I watched a lot of video on Youtube and read a lot of review but it seems most people play strumming or old blues out of "her", and this is quite different. Sometimes a guitar is great on strumming and bad on fingerstyle and sometimes is the opposite so I'm quite confused.
My idea is to put some .012 medium gauge strings on it (like d'addario ej39) and tune it down a whole step or 1&1/2. Do you think it could work to sound well int the old Kottke compositions? I'm worried about the neck, too. Can it be settle to be played easy or it is quite hard and it's better a modern Guild?
Sorry for my bad english
Marco
Hello, just discovered this great forum. I always liked Guild guitars, but I've never been lucky enough to own one.
Now, well, now I'm thinking to make up for that.
It's time for me for a second 12 string guitar. I play a Taylor LKSM with .013 medium gauge in open tunings. I only play fingerstyle (no strum) in the style of Leo Kottke. Now I need a 12 to play in standard tuning 1 full step low.
Well, I fell in love with those '60-'70 beautiful vintage Guilds. I was thinking about an F212, but maybe some other model in your opinion is better. Can you give me some suggestions? What do you think about the sound? And about the neck playability in this specific style? I watched a lot of video on Youtube and read a lot of review but it seems most people play strumming or old blues out of "her", and this is quite different. Sometimes a guitar is great on strumming and bad on fingerstyle and sometimes is the opposite so I'm quite confused.
My idea is to put some .012 medium gauge strings on it (like d'addario ej39) and tune it down a whole step or 1&1/2. Do you think it could work to sound well int the old Kottke compositions? I'm worried about the neck, too. Can it be settle to be played easy or it is quite hard and it's better a modern Guild?
Sorry for my bad english
Marco