Guildedagain
Enlightened Member
Is this one genius, or just another crackpot idea?
Just talking to a local guy who supposedly knew about some vintage guitars a while back, gone now, I waited way too long to follow up on this lead, which was some weird divorce thing anyway, the dust finally settled, and this dude actually got one of the guitars... Old guy by the sound of it, and maybe a few beers, but anyway, I say, so what was it, the guitar you got?
He says, it was a 1968 Guild D35, and wow, what a coincidence, he turns out to be a Guild nut, or at leas since he got this one.
All the instruments went through a local shop, and the owner, very vintage savvy guy, apparently made quite a big deal of the '68 D35, cause it was just released and he claims the first ones released, even the first thousand had to be at the top of their game, because it would make or break the model.
I'll buy that, sounds plausible.
Anyway, we talked for an hour (wife still mad...), I'll have to go meet up with him and compare Guilds of yore sometimes, when the blizzards are over...
After we got off the phone, I verified the 1968 thing, was the first year, and I read so many crazy good testimonials and videos about these old D35's on the net that I got to thinking there should be a registry for early D35, heck later ones too, but especially the early ones.
Or is it nuts to put serial numbers on the net because it would invite scams?
Do it stealthy like then, I think mine is a '73, the serial # is; 850XX
This will be embarrassing if there is already such a registry, otherwise, let's start one
D35 owners unite!
Just talking to a local guy who supposedly knew about some vintage guitars a while back, gone now, I waited way too long to follow up on this lead, which was some weird divorce thing anyway, the dust finally settled, and this dude actually got one of the guitars... Old guy by the sound of it, and maybe a few beers, but anyway, I say, so what was it, the guitar you got?
He says, it was a 1968 Guild D35, and wow, what a coincidence, he turns out to be a Guild nut, or at leas since he got this one.
All the instruments went through a local shop, and the owner, very vintage savvy guy, apparently made quite a big deal of the '68 D35, cause it was just released and he claims the first ones released, even the first thousand had to be at the top of their game, because it would make or break the model.
I'll buy that, sounds plausible.
Anyway, we talked for an hour (wife still mad...), I'll have to go meet up with him and compare Guilds of yore sometimes, when the blizzards are over...
After we got off the phone, I verified the 1968 thing, was the first year, and I read so many crazy good testimonials and videos about these old D35's on the net that I got to thinking there should be a registry for early D35, heck later ones too, but especially the early ones.
Or is it nuts to put serial numbers on the net because it would invite scams?
Do it stealthy like then, I think mine is a '73, the serial # is; 850XX
This will be embarrassing if there is already such a registry, otherwise, let's start one
D35 owners unite!