HoboKen
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Needed to go back to Smithfield Fair (are you going to Smithfield Fair, West R Lee, HobKen, and Gasman?)
Well written Dudley. My son has a Sigma DR-41 (top pf the Sigma Line) and he loves it....but he knows that its not a martin D-41, not really close.
He now also has a GAD 50, and he knows its not the same as my Westerly Guilds, not really close.
As long as they keep the GAD designation, I guess its OK.......having a chesterfield logo......maybe.....almost like just an up-grade of the DeArmond headstock. But, it is at the expense of the great Westerly and Hoboken chesterfield headstock Guilds of the past, much the way the present regular Chinese Epiphones mock but never match the old Kalamazoo and older Epiphones.
Gibson and Martin are now putting their only headstocks and logos on guitars that are far less a "Martin" or a "Gibson" than anything in their past also. What a shame for all three!.....
Ironically, Epiphone, which, more recently, has "almost" been the "Guild DeArmond" for Gibson, has now eclipsed even the home-grown USA Custom Shop Gibsons with its Japanese Elitist Series in both luthier quality control and quality of materials.
Fender - Guild needs to keep the "G" logo Guilds strictly a USA Tacoma thing or it will be then end of any acknowledged high quality instrument the Guild name has mean't through thick and thin of corporate changes and blunders over the years.
HoboKen
Well written Dudley. My son has a Sigma DR-41 (top pf the Sigma Line) and he loves it....but he knows that its not a martin D-41, not really close.
He now also has a GAD 50, and he knows its not the same as my Westerly Guilds, not really close.
As long as they keep the GAD designation, I guess its OK.......having a chesterfield logo......maybe.....almost like just an up-grade of the DeArmond headstock. But, it is at the expense of the great Westerly and Hoboken chesterfield headstock Guilds of the past, much the way the present regular Chinese Epiphones mock but never match the old Kalamazoo and older Epiphones.
Gibson and Martin are now putting their only headstocks and logos on guitars that are far less a "Martin" or a "Gibson" than anything in their past also. What a shame for all three!.....
Ironically, Epiphone, which, more recently, has "almost" been the "Guild DeArmond" for Gibson, has now eclipsed even the home-grown USA Custom Shop Gibsons with its Japanese Elitist Series in both luthier quality control and quality of materials.
Fender - Guild needs to keep the "G" logo Guilds strictly a USA Tacoma thing or it will be then end of any acknowledged high quality instrument the Guild name has mean't through thick and thin of corporate changes and blunders over the years.
HoboKen