The early guitar is a feather, no doubt, weighs 4.20lbs. Later guitars feel like tanks to me.
It's the most reliced acoustic I've had, but no top cracks.
Thick slab of figured Brazilian Roasewood, lots of headstock angle.
It's a lot like some cars I've had. Moody, a little too much personality. I had a BMW 320i that absolutely refused to start when a guy came over to buy it, but started afterwards... And this one I had a guy wanting to meet at a coffee shop, play it and buy it, and the guitar sounded pitiful I figured I'd save us both the trouble. But now, and also with EJ16's I put on there just to hold the neck on, probably about a year old now, and wow, does it sing.
And like it speaks, arpeggiate the D chord and you hear all kinds of yummy overtones, like maple syrup on oatmeal, I'm not getting that from the other guitars. Did some extensive trialing yesterday afternoon - must the spring cleaning thing - the F30 in dropped D, as well as all others, only one comes close is the D5CE but in the end I would keep the F30CE over it because of the 24 frets and strung with EB Rock n Blues strings you can do all of the rock/blues G string bends til the cows come home.
An oddity about the F30CE, just cleaning it on intake a couple summers ago I noticed the top was oddly resonant, so I checked the frequency, the top rings out an A virtually on the dot.
Another amazing Guild.