SFIV1967
Venerated Member
By the way, the Guild Master Luthier who was overseeing the entire 70th Anniversary GSR D-55 built in 2023 was Chuck Sanzone.
Don't think that was ever mentioned before at LTG, and his name is mentioned on the Guild webpage now.
http://www.sanzoneguitars.com/sanzoneguitars.com/Home.html
His own made guitars have a Flat top base price of (nylon & steel) $6,000, and Archtops start at $10k...
He lives in Ventura now as above homepage shows and used to work in Stowe, Vermont as his previous archived homepage shows:
http://www.sanzoneguitars.com/Sanzone_Guitar_&_Mandolin_Co./Home.html
Chuck Sanzone now also makes other expensive Guild GSR models, here a GSR "M-55 Special" for a store in Italy:
https://reverb.com/de/item/70460534-guild-m55-special-limited-edition-by-chuck-sanzone
It has a bookmatched Macassar Ebony headplate and a "1960 Guild tribute Macassar Ebony bridge".
And no fretmarkers except the 12th fret GSR logo. Unfortunatelly the pictures have low quality only.
Ralf
Don't think that was ever mentioned before at LTG, and his name is mentioned on the Guild webpage now.
http://www.sanzoneguitars.com/sanzoneguitars.com/Home.html
His own made guitars have a Flat top base price of (nylon & steel) $6,000, and Archtops start at $10k...
He lives in Ventura now as above homepage shows and used to work in Stowe, Vermont as his previous archived homepage shows:
http://www.sanzoneguitars.com/Sanzone_Guitar_&_Mandolin_Co./Home.html
Chuck Sanzone now also makes other expensive Guild GSR models, here a GSR "M-55 Special" for a store in Italy:
https://reverb.com/de/item/70460534-guild-m55-special-limited-edition-by-chuck-sanzone
It has a bookmatched Macassar Ebony headplate and a "1960 Guild tribute Macassar Ebony bridge".
And no fretmarkers except the 12th fret GSR logo. Unfortunatelly the pictures have low quality only.
Ralf
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