rscottmurray
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did/does Guild offer a nylon string model?
Good point! Thanks! CCE-100 added above before the Paloma.Ralf, did you mention the CCE-100?
Those should be all Guild Nylon string models that were offered over time. If I'm missing one, let me know.
Mark I to Mark VII series: Made in Hoboken starting from 1961/1962
Example: 1968 price list:
Example: Mark VI:
G3 to G-6 series:
Made by Alhambra in Spain and imported by Guild at the end of the '80s and beginning of the '90s.
MKS-10: Made in Westerly
MK-11: Made in Westerly
Same specs as MKS-10 but with 2 3/4" deep acoustic sound chamber.
CCE-100 / CCE-100HG: Made in Westerly around 1993/94
Thinline Nylon string cutaway acoustic electric guitar, spruce top, mahogany body with classic rosette and slotted headstock. Guild transducer and pre-amp system. Natural satin or natural high gloss finish.
The labels often showed C100E-NT (for natural top), so you might not find info under CCE-100 but C100E-NT or even CL-E-NT, all the same CCE-100 model! At that time the Guild people who wrote the labels often mixed up internal numbers with numbers marketing had created. People in the Westerly factory called her mostly C100-E. Only the last models showed the correct CCE-100 name and at that point marketing changed the name in the serial number lists...
More than 100 made, how many exactly might be a topic in Hans upcpming book Volume II.
Since I can't add more than 20 pictures to one post here is a link to more details and ads, see posts 16 to 19 for instance:
Guild acoustic electric nylon string 1994
Less than 100 made in Westerly--serial #100012--Model C100 ENTletstalkguild.com
Paloma: Made in Westerly, Nashville and finally Corona until 2005.
Example: 2005 price list:
GAD-C1: Made in China at GREE
GAD-C2: Made in China at GREE
https://www.gak.co.uk/.../guild-gad-c2-natural-325018.jpg
GAD-C3: Made in China at GREE
GAD-4N: Made in China at GREE
Solid spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides
GAD-5N: Made in China at GREE
solid cedar top, solid African padauk back and sides (MIC)
GAD GC-2: Made in China at GREE from 2012-2014
GAD GN-5: Made in China at GREE from 2012-2014
Solid cedar top and solid rosewood back and sides (MIC)
DD-6NC Doyle Dykes Signature Nylon Cutaway Electric: Made in New Hartford only in 2014.
After 2014 there were no more Guild nylon models as Guild was purchased by Cordoba Music Group (CMG) in 2014 and their own Cordoba brand is the nylon string guitar brand. In 2023 CMG including Cordoba and Guild was sold to Yamaha Guitar Group (YGG) and I would guess nylon stays with the Cordoba brand.
Ralf
Ah, so there were also changed materials on Mark models like that MK4-R over the years. I didn't look into those changed models. Indeed the 1978 price list shows rosewood and no longer padouk for sides and back.There is a 1978 Westerly Mark IV Rosewood for sale on Reverb.
I suppose guitar id is always a moving target. Thanks, Ralf!Ah, so there were also changed materials on Mark models like that MK4-R over the years. I didn't look into those changed models. Indeed the 1978 price list shows rosewood and no longer padouk for sides and back.
So first the Mark IV used pearwood (like shown in above 1968 price list), starting with the Nov 1973 price list padouk and finally in 1977 rosewood....
The Nov 1976 list still showed padouk and the May 1977 list already rosewood.
Ralf
That's correct. There are not many who have a MKS-10, I know your one, hearth_man and Lynn D.Well you posted my photo of my MKS-10.