Good grief! The famous "Guild Accessories" model, and only 1200+ bucks!

[wileypickett]

Acoustic Guitar Guild Accessories A Sampler GoodThings forYour Guitar | eBay

<p>Warm greetings from Japan. Thank you very much for visiting our listing.</p><p>Vintage Peg<br>Guild.<br>GUILD Accessories A Sampler of GoodThings for Your Guitar.<br>It has pegs made in West Germany, so probably it's a pretty old guitar.<br>The pin for the thick string is missing.<br>It also...

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[mushroom]

$1200 and no TRC??

I don’t think so.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

 

[SFIV1967]

That seems to be a "rare" "Guild" (not) model !

Was that headstock veneer "3D printed"?



The bridge pins and saddle were probably hammered in...



Ralf

 

[wileypickett]

One of a kind -- thank goodness!

 

[Uke]

I'm thinkng this would be a very interesting conversation piece for someone's (GAD's ?) collection. It would certainly be a novelty. You could have a lot of fun just handing this to a serious Guild aficionado so as to watch the look that would come over their face. And by the way, what are "pegs" anyway?

 

[SFIV1967]

And by the way, what are "pegs" anyway?

Pegs like "tent pegs" means machine heads/tuners...The tent pegs hold the tent strings...
"It has pegs made in West Germany, so probably it's a pretty old guitar."

Ralf

 

[Uke]

Pegs like "tent pegs" means machine heads/tuners...The tent pegs hold the tent strings...
"It has pegs made in West Germany, so probably it's a pretty old guitar."

Ralf

When I read "pegs" I was envisioning something like the friction tuning pegs on flamenco guitars or violins; so I just couldn't see them on this "Guild Accessory" guitar. Now I'm (back) in the know !

 

[GGJaguar]

Ugh, that thing is a crime against nature. And Guild.

 

[Brad Little]

A sampler of good things for your guitar! Well, at least they didn't try to clone the label. In its defense, one of the better headstock copies I've seen on sham-Guilds.

 

[kalper]

I think it might actually be a "GUIDO" guitar and someone took a magic marker to the "D" to make it look like "Guild".

 

[Rocky]

I'm guessing a modified bizarro 'lawsuit' Takamine or the like. What's with the D-35 style back?

 

[SFIV1967]

What's with the D-35 style back?

Typical Japanese for that time. Many Guild copies were based on Martin copies.
I believe the base model in our case here was a Tomson GW-380 or any variation of them made by Kiso Suzuki Violin Co., LTD or the direct model from Kiso Suzuki.


Ralf

 

[GAD]

For a minute I thought you meant the lucite S300 on the cover of the Axcessories catalog and I was going to have to buy it.

 

[davismanLV]

It's like they weren't even trying.....

 

[Westerly Wood]

Typical Japanese for that time. Many Guild copies were based on Martin copies.
I believe the base model was a Tomson GW-380 by Kiso Suzuki Violin Co., LTD.


Ralf

I knew the guy who owned the Folk Shop in Tucson, way before he sold it. He was pretty networked in the used/vintage acoustic market and was well known re the banjo. He told me once that in the early 80s, people from japan would walk into his shop and make sketches, drawings and took notes on any american folk guitars being produced at that time. he said it was all about research. he knew what they were going to use it for lol

 

[adorshki]

That seems to be a "rare" "Guild" (not) model !

The bridge pins and saddle were probably hammered in...



Ralf

I find one of these is ideal for the task:

And we can use the Guild Heli-coil accessory in that plugged pin-hole:

 

[SFIV1967]

For a minute I thought you meant the lucite S300 on the cover of the Axcessories catalog and I was going to have to buy it.

Oh! Now that would have been great!



Ralf

 

[Minnesota Flats]

You guys haven't seen those before?

They're made by the night shift of a dirt floor shop in Calcutta whose main line of work is welding patches in engine blocks windowed by thrown con rods.

 

[plaidseason]

I love the old-school cauterized headstock and faceplate.

I've also found I get more bass, if I cut the E string bridge pin and melt it a little.