I need help! What kind of guitar is this?

[sosimplykait]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0zys ... o1_500.jpg

thanks!

 

[jgmaute]

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0zys1rVWw1qz6g3wo1_500.jpg
thanks!

Looks like a Guild copy to me, pickguard is Guild design, headstock has a sort of chesterfield below a who knows what brand name (tried to enlarge it but is got blurry as it got bigger). Here's an Ibanez copy of a Guild that's on the bay
Ibanez Guild copy
I'm sure someone else will be along with a better guess. joan

...and someone did, I'll go with the Gibson, looks nice too, 12 fret, small size....bet it sounds great.

 

[killdeer43]

Perhaps a Guild wannabe? They all want to be Guilds! :wink:

Joe

 

[alpep]

takamine?

 

[killdeer43]

takamine?

Hey Al, you takea mine, I'll takea yours! :wink:

Giuseppe

 

[JimbowF212]

My guess is a recent reissue of the pre-war Gibson L series. There is an outside chance that it might be a restored instrument too. On a number of details, this 1931 L-2 is a pretty close match.

http://home.provide.net/~cfh/loo.html

This sounds like a likely situation and the restorer had an old guild pickguard and used it to cover a whole, Crack or some kind of defect or damage to the top or to prevent damage to the top from playing it a flatpick. The pick guard over the hole senario is what Martin did to Jimmie Rodgers' 000-45 after he put a hole in the top playing it with a flatpick, it was originally issued without a pickguard. BTW I am talking about the original Jimmie Rodgers A.K.A. The Singing Breakman, just so we are clear, and his 000-45 was made in the late 1920s I think and it is now in His museam in Meridian, Miss. and is valued @ over half a million bucks.