PH_Graphics
Junior Member
After 3 days of delays trying to find a suitable image host, I think we have this figured out. Thanks, fronobulax and others, for your suggestions.
At the urging of fronobulax I'm going to insert this photo into a brand new thread, otherwise it's going to be buried 10 layers down in an otherwise wholly uninteresting exchange between myself and the moderators regarding the uploading of images. So here is the text of my original post, along with a photo:
I'm a new member and this is my first post, even though I've owned my F-412 Blonde since 1979. According to Guild's serial number chart it was made in the F-412's first year of production, 1968. It was the 9th of 10 made that year. (Only 4 were made the following year, so I guess the introduction did not go all that well. That tells me that in the late 60's Guild was much better at making guitars than at selling them.)
Anyway, I bought it from someone in the Chicago area who told me at the time that the rosewood pick guard was a special order, but factory original. He did not go into the significance, if any, of the crescent moon. I've been in touch recently with Cordoba Music group to see if they can confirm or deny that the pick guard was factory installed. Their most recent response is that because of the numerous ownership changes since the late 60's many details from that period are simply not available, but that no one there recognizes the guard and nothing like it exists in any remaining photos from the period, so it's unlikely to have come with that guard from Hoboken.
I personally don't care. I bought the guitar for its sound, not for its pick guard, but I'm planning to have some work done on it and need to make a decision about either working around that guard or replacing it. I'd prefer the latter, but at the same time I don't want to destroy what might have been a very rare factory offering.
So I'm throwing this out to the group. Has anyone out there ever seen or heard about a pick guard like this one? (More on that patch at the top of the guard in a future post.......)
At the urging of fronobulax I'm going to insert this photo into a brand new thread, otherwise it's going to be buried 10 layers down in an otherwise wholly uninteresting exchange between myself and the moderators regarding the uploading of images. So here is the text of my original post, along with a photo:
I'm a new member and this is my first post, even though I've owned my F-412 Blonde since 1979. According to Guild's serial number chart it was made in the F-412's first year of production, 1968. It was the 9th of 10 made that year. (Only 4 were made the following year, so I guess the introduction did not go all that well. That tells me that in the late 60's Guild was much better at making guitars than at selling them.)
Anyway, I bought it from someone in the Chicago area who told me at the time that the rosewood pick guard was a special order, but factory original. He did not go into the significance, if any, of the crescent moon. I've been in touch recently with Cordoba Music group to see if they can confirm or deny that the pick guard was factory installed. Their most recent response is that because of the numerous ownership changes since the late 60's many details from that period are simply not available, but that no one there recognizes the guard and nothing like it exists in any remaining photos from the period, so it's unlikely to have come with that guard from Hoboken.
I personally don't care. I bought the guitar for its sound, not for its pick guard, but I'm planning to have some work done on it and need to make a decision about either working around that guard or replacing it. I'd prefer the latter, but at the same time I don't want to destroy what might have been a very rare factory offering.
So I'm throwing this out to the group. Has anyone out there ever seen or heard about a pick guard like this one? (More on that patch at the top of the guard in a future post.......)