hansmoust
Enlightened Member
Hello folks,
A couple of days ago I received a question from somebody living in the U.K. regarding his Guild F-50R; basically he was looking for some history related information.
He did send me some photos and while looking at them I had the idea that I had seen the guitar before.
Now I get to see a lot of guitars on a regular basis, but I tend to remember certain grain patterns or figuring in the woods when it’s a little different from the usual straight grain stuff.
So when I saw the back of his F-50R it looked somewhat familiar to me. I checked my files for a guitar with that same serial number, but I could not find it. However, after browsing through my database a little longer I finally found the guitar that I had in mind.
Here’s the back of that guitar:
As you can see both the back of his guitar and the one that I had in my database were from the same ‘flitch’ and it is pretty obvious they were really close (probably next to each other) at the time that the wood was cut. I have seen quite a few other guitars with wood that was obviously from the same tree, usually from small makers that re-saw their own wood, but the grain pattern on these two backs is really close; something you don’t get to see a lot from large scale makers after the guitars have left the factory.
Hope you will enjoy this little piece of Guild trivia!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
A couple of days ago I received a question from somebody living in the U.K. regarding his Guild F-50R; basically he was looking for some history related information.
He did send me some photos and while looking at them I had the idea that I had seen the guitar before.
Now I get to see a lot of guitars on a regular basis, but I tend to remember certain grain patterns or figuring in the woods when it’s a little different from the usual straight grain stuff.
So when I saw the back of his F-50R it looked somewhat familiar to me. I checked my files for a guitar with that same serial number, but I could not find it. However, after browsing through my database a little longer I finally found the guitar that I had in mind.
Here’s the back of that guitar:
As you can see both the back of his guitar and the one that I had in my database were from the same ‘flitch’ and it is pretty obvious they were really close (probably next to each other) at the time that the wood was cut. I have seen quite a few other guitars with wood that was obviously from the same tree, usually from small makers that re-saw their own wood, but the grain pattern on these two backs is really close; something you don’t get to see a lot from large scale makers after the guitars have left the factory.
Hope you will enjoy this little piece of Guild trivia!
Sincerely,
Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl
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