What guitar would cause you to trade in your Guild?

[twocorgis]

This is why my user name is Taylor Martin Guild.
I love them all.
I just can't afford them all.

Yep. It's all good. 8)

 

[JerryR]

I like Guild guitars a lot (obviously), but I realize that they're not the only guitar maker out there.

True - there are Guilds - and other guitars :roll:

 

[count savage]

Well, I'll cheat here. I wouldn't trade in my Tacoma D50, period. It's a keeper for good. However, if I was to trade in my second, imaginary Guild, or my real Larrivee, I would consider a Bourgeois Custom Country Boy. Arguably the fastest flat picker I've ever heard, Bryan Sutton, plays one. http://www.pantheonguitars.com/

Or check out Bob Minner from Tim McGraw's band playing a Bourgeois Slope D Custom. Stunning sounding guitar, though probably costs three times what a Guild costs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW5wWLvk-9U&feature=player_embedded

 

[Bill Ashton]

Sidebar...

Count, tell us about that Vox Phantom...!!!!!!!

Hah-ah-aaaah! :lol:

 

[MojoTooth]

Another Guild...... :lol: Steffan

same here!

unless i was to have some extra cash and could get a nice Collings or a Vintage Telecaster.

 

[dayuhan]

I could see trading the F50R for one of those insanely expensive pre-war Martins... because then I could sell the Martin, buy back the F50R, and acquire a whole Guild collection to keep it company!

 

[bluesypicky]

I could see trading the F50R for one of those insanely expensive pre-war Martins... because then I could sell the Martin, buy back the F50R, and acquire a whole Guild collection to keep it company!

Now THAT makes sense to me.... :wink:

 

[killdeer43]

A 1943 Martin 000-18, like this one.....

Birth-year Guilds are tough to find!! I've looked.... :wink:

Joe

 

[southernGuild]

VERY NICE Joe, That one will just have to do.........in a pinch! Maybe you can address that headstock issue! Give it an 'upgrade' :lol:

 

[count savage]

Yeah, really. Talk to Martin about that headstock decal. No abalone inlay at all!

 

[Dr. Spivey]

Count me as one of those who is interested in other brands. I've always been a fan of Gibson J45/SJ's. And someday I shall have one. If perchance I were to stumble upon a Gibson that I just had to have, I would probably sell my D40 to fund it. The D40 is my favorite and most played guitar, but as a practical matter I couldn't justify two dreads made of the same woods. Also there are plenty of them around so it would be easily replaced if I had a change of heart. But then again I might just replace the 40 with a 50. I don't really plan these things, they just happen. :lol:

 

[killdeer43]

Here's a better look at the '43 000-18.

Of course, I'd settle for a '43 000-28! :wink:

Joe

 

[Cypress Knee]

Hi All,

Just dropping by and thought I would weigh in. I used to have a collection of Guilds (and others) that I am thinning down.

In the rosewood dred department, I am keeping a Carlo Greco handbuilt over the Westerly D 55, D 50, DV 52 that I used to have. I still have a DV 60, put it is available. But this choice isn't heresy!

In the mahogany dred department, I am keeping a '46 Gibson SJ over Hoboken D 25, D 35, and crossover period D 40. I am also the caretaker of a guitar my neighbor found in her closet, a '63 Martin D 18, so I needed to make some room in the house.

The 73 F50R is a keeper for sure, even over the Greven Praire State I have right now. But the 73 is a special guitar.

I have a sweet GF60 that I hardly play, it has to compete with the above for limited playing time, and also a Charlie Hoffman concert and Martin Norman Blake. I would choose the Hoffman over the other two.

But I have had these guitars for years and a chance to A/B them a lot. I don't think I would have traded any of the Guilds straight up for any of the others without extended A/B first.

CK

 

[killdeer43]

I don't think I would have traded any of the Guilds straight up for any of the others without extended A/B first.

CK

I love the extended A/Bs.
They always bring me great pleasure and it's easy enough for me to pretend that I'm working! :wink:

Joe

 

[fused]

My guitars have greater value than just monetary. There's history and memories. Things that money can't buy. You have to live it to own it.

I just inherited this 1963 Guild A500 from my first guitar teacher, and old friend of over 30 years. To trade it? Nah, can't/won't happen.

Its my first Guild, never was looking at owning one.
Glad I have this one...

Besides, it plays great, sounds wonderful after 40 years living in a case....aging. Its everything that I'd want in a guitar, if I were in the market for another.

What would it take for me to trade it? It would talk a lot!

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Possibly I'd trade my spare JF-4NT in on a F-48 or maybe a Gibson J-100M (mahogany back/sides from the early 90s), but that's about it...and it'd have to be really spectacular J-100M!

 

[RussD]

What guitar would cause you to trade in your Guild?

I don't know; whatcha' got?
I'm pretty sure that most of mine are available if the right Galloup, Collings or Froggy Bottom happened along.

 

[West R Lee]

What guitar would cause you to trade in your Guild?

I don't know; whatcha' got?
I'm pretty sure that most of mine are available if the right Galloup, Collings or Froggy Bottom happened along.

Hey Russ, what happened to the little A50 you bought in Arlington last year? I don't see her in your signature....I see an A30?

West

 

[RussD]

I don't see her in your signature....I see an A30?

:lol: Lawsy, that's embarrassing! Probably what I get for trying to type with both fingers! Thank you, sir.

 

[Russell Letson]

I keep individual guitars rather than brands--I've sold off a number of pre-1970 Guilds that were not getting played (also a '60s Martin New Yorker and a very good 1945 Gibson L7). Some instruments I keep for extra-musical reasons, like a 110-year-old Washburn that a good friend restored from basket-case status, but I do let go (often reluctantly) of guitars that shouldn't be just sitting in a case--they deserve to be played, and I know I've made a couple of people happy by releasing my instruments back into the environment. That said, my D-40 will be one of the last guitars I let go of when age and/or living conditions force me to give up my guitaraholic ways. (This is not unlike recognizing that you have reached an age when it's imprudent or unkind to take on another cat or dog because even if you can still care for a pet, you're not likely to outlive her. I watched my parents come to that stage, and it's approaching me apace.)

I don't have the stock of Guilds I used to, but I can imagine selling off the M-30 to help finance, say, a mid-1930s Epiphone 16-inch archtop or a Shelley Park Selmer-style. And either of those would require dipping deep into the non-Guild part of the current inventory.