A d40 and d35 comparison

[milhous1978]

Just decided to compare my new toy with old toy

 

[GAD]

Moved to Acoustics.

 

[Br1ck]

Every day I get to choose my 70 Guild D 35, or my 2011 SCGC D PW, my 07 Martin D 35 Custom or my 65 Epiphone Texan. My SCGC is favored 60% of the time, my Guild 25%. The cost differential is $5000 vs $1200. I find no less joy in playing the Guild, or any of the others. A guitar is as much emotional as anything. The Guild has the history of being brought back from the grave. My Texan was just right from the start. My SCGC I bought after ten minutes. They all do very different things. I need a rosewood guitar every now and then, for which the Martin D 35 Custom is superb. Is one better or worse? Couldn't begin to tell you, but value has nothing to do with it. The neck does.

 

[milhous1978]

Every day I get to choose my 70 Guild D 35, or my 2011 SCGC D PW, my 07 Martin D 35 Custom or my 65 Epiphone Texan. My SCGC is favored 60% of the time, my Guild 25%. The cost differential is $5000 vs $1200. I find no less joy in playing the Guild, or any of the others. A guitar is as much emotional as anything. The Guild has the history of being brought back from the grave. My Texan was just right from the start. My SCGC I bought after ten minutes. They all do very different things. I need a rosewood guitar every now and then, for which the Martin D 35 Custom is superb. Is one better or worse? Couldn't begin to tell you, but value has nothing to do with it. The neck does.

Couldn't agree more a guitar's value has much less to do w price than how it makes you feel when you pick it up!!

 

[Br1ck]

A guitar you bought new fifty years ago is the best. Didn't have the means 50 years ago. My Guild D 35 was a slow process, like five years slow, before I came to really appreciate it. That is one end of the spectrum. The other was my ten minute this guitar is coming home with me SCGC. It took two hours that seemed like ten minutes before I bought the Texan. I was playing that last night and the low end thump is impressive. To say guitars are different is an understatement.

I've learned that there is that rare occurrence that happens every fifty or a hundred guitars where you just do what it takes to buy it. I've learned not to pick up pre war Martins or thirties J 35s, for they are a ticket to misery. I don't touch new SCGCs either. I'm going to be happy with the one I've got. It only took forty years to come to my conclusions. I do not expect anyone to learn in less time. But I have not been miserable leaving a guitar shop since buying my Martin M 36 decades ago. Learn to be happy with your D 40 or your D 18. Only when your true love comes along should you not hesitate. I think if you keep your radar on, something special will find you. Don't worry if nothing you can afford seems better than your D 40.

 

[Boomstick]

The Martin is fuller and the Guild is ringier. It's a nice 2 guitar pair you got there.

 

[GGJaguar]

Both sound good to me, just different.

 

[Westerly Wood]

I gave up the same model guitar Brick has for my D25BR. Not in trade, just sold the SC. It just made more sonic sense to my ears at the time, and the SC was too resonant or boomy, if that makes sense.