They shouldn't predominate, that was an unusual a spec for Guild at the time (late '80's to '00's), but there was a period ca '92-'94 where a lot of the high-enders like DV's got 'em, so some of those (JF30's) might have too. Focus on post '96 for 1-11/16 nuts.
Did you get that GF30 squared away? I too have my eye out for a birth-year (i.e. Hoboken) Guild. Yeah, as with Fender amps, I am old enough that finding one from my birth year is pretty spendy. They didn't start making the cheaper D-25s and D-35s until after I was born.
I haven’t done anything with it. I have a local guy who I’m pretty sure wants to buy it. He works at the guitar shop where I traded in my first GF30. He told me it was the only guitar he ever tried to buy back after they sold it and when I told him I had yet another (making for numbers two and three) he said he was going on vacation but would be interested when he got back. If he doesn’t buy it as is I’ll have to decide whether to replace the nut and saddle or just put it on Facebook marketplace as is. I get it out and play it every once in a while and it sounds great as is. The neck is very different from “my” GF30 though. Much less chunky.
That's what happened with my F30r-ls. I'm not going to argue that my Westerly made F44 is a better guitar, but we have "a thing."
Considering all the cross-pollination from Collings, I imagine that you would like the New Hartford builds a lot Jim. Darren Wallace did lift a lot of their production regimens when they were kitting out the plant.
I know that fairly recently someone had posted that Cordoba had acquired some finish technique from Collings, but had no idea NH had incorporated Collings techniques as well. Interesting.
Yes, much more so that Oxnard, although a lot of it might have carried over. Collings was very generous with a lot of their processes, which would be considered trade secrets in a lot of other industries. Or it could be that they just liked Darren, who is a very likable fellow by anyone's measure. We stay in touch over Facebook to this day.
One small correction: The F-47 was made in Tacoma, at least in 2007.Single truss on 12's was introduced in Tacoma in '07, but never documented. Ask Chaz.
F47 was continuous from late Westerly through Corona, but was replaced by CV-1 and 2 in Tacoma, then revived in NH with the death of the Contemporarys.
F40 and F30 were revived in Tacoma, there were no Corona F30's or '40's but tAcoma saw 2 different takes on the body with the "Contemporary" series being based on F30 and F40 bodies.
Y'know, I thought so, then thought I was wrong after checking catalogs. The CV'S had the florentine cutaway I was thinking of and the '06 catalog wasn't showing F47 yet. '09 catalog shows it but I was thinking "New Hartford" when in fact it's probably still showing Tacoma models (like the Mexican DVs)
My Corona JF30-12 is a monster tank of a guitar, and the sound it produces has convinced me that "lightness" does not equal better tone.
