Hutdog
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2024
- Messages
- 13
- Reaction score
- 9
- Guild Total
- 2
Nabbed one of these on clearance sale for it to be my overseas travel guitar and leave the Gibson L00 safe at home.
The quality control at Guild China must be poor. Surprised it left the production line. The fret ends could use some smoothing.
The action was so high, It was almost unplayable. I sanded 2mm off the bone Saddle with room to spare.
Tuning machines not great as well. A little lube in gears helped slightly but they had play in them before the gear would catch.
I replaced the tuning machines with matching nickel Grovers and now the fine tuning is working the way it should.
Replaced the plastic bridge pins with unbleached bone bridge pins - I think the tone sounds less harsh and slightly warmer.
Next string change I'll replace bleached saddle with an unbleached bone saddle from MacNichol Guitars online store to match bridge pins.
It completely sounds different from my Gibson but this under $1000 Parlor Guild is growing on me. Great for slide!
The Fishman pickup will need to eventually be replaced with an LR Baggs system. I think the Fishman sounds terrible.
Acoustically it's bright. Doesn't have the warmth or volume of my Gibson but it has a tone all its own. Great little guitar for sitting around writing.
Unlike my Guild D120ce, the P250e intonation is perfect up and down the neck.
The quality control at Guild China must be poor. Surprised it left the production line. The fret ends could use some smoothing.
The action was so high, It was almost unplayable. I sanded 2mm off the bone Saddle with room to spare.
Tuning machines not great as well. A little lube in gears helped slightly but they had play in them before the gear would catch.
I replaced the tuning machines with matching nickel Grovers and now the fine tuning is working the way it should.
Replaced the plastic bridge pins with unbleached bone bridge pins - I think the tone sounds less harsh and slightly warmer.
Next string change I'll replace bleached saddle with an unbleached bone saddle from MacNichol Guitars online store to match bridge pins.
It completely sounds different from my Gibson but this under $1000 Parlor Guild is growing on me. Great for slide!
The Fishman pickup will need to eventually be replaced with an LR Baggs system. I think the Fishman sounds terrible.
Acoustically it's bright. Doesn't have the warmth or volume of my Gibson but it has a tone all its own. Great little guitar for sitting around writing.
Unlike my Guild D120ce, the P250e intonation is perfect up and down the neck.
