Guild Guitar Reviews

"If electric guitars were clothes, the single-cutaway electric would be a sports jacket...Guild’s Bluesbird ($2,099, $2,399 as reviewed, with AAA top) demonstrates its unique take on the single-cutaway design with a slightly oversized body (14 inches across the lower bout) and a more radical cutaway silhouette...Weighing in at 7 1/4 pounds, the Bluesbird is light on your shoulder and has a center of gravity located somewhat closer to the upper bout..." read more »

"The Guild CV-1 Acoustic Guitar has a vintage body, accented by a solid spruce top and solid Indian rosewood back and sides with a laquer finish...I was really torn between the F47R and the CV-1...This way you can order one from Guild and customize your CV-1..." read more »

"I'm selling my Guild D-40 Richie Havens Signature model...About a year ago I decided to take up playing again after a 20 yr absence...Condition of this guitar is as when I bought it, a couple tiny dings on the back of the neck at the eighth fret treble side (shown in last picture) and a couple pick scratches in the pickguard, shop wear is what they called it...I'm really not sure what the difference is between the two, the Richie Havens model comes with the extra pickguard and his signature on the truss rod cover in addition to standard D-40 features..." read more »

"I've been on numerous websites and can't identify the age of my Guild D-50...My guess was that it was a 1979, but I don't think they used model numbers back then...I've been on numerous websites and can't identify the age of my Guild D-50..." read more »

"with Fishman with D-Tar Pickup System w/Case + FREE Tuner + Stand...We’ve been building dreadnought acoustic guitars since 1963, and our instruments are revered for their value, reliability, tone, responsiveness, outstanding projection and sustain...Our flagship model, the D-55, was introduced in 1968 as a special order-only item, but the response was so strong that within a few years it became a regular production model...The D-TAR’s NEW Load ‘N Lock™ system allows quick and easy “AA” battery changes..." read more »

"I tried a Tacoma-made Guild DV4 yesterday...A good thing, I guess, as Thunderchiefs are a little out of range anyway...The DV4 rivalled a Martin I tried, which was also sweet (but I forget what model, I got excited by Tacoma-made guitars...Also compared it head to head with a D40 and, again, discounting the price difference, was happier with the DV4..." read more »

"A good example of the sound of this guitar is the introductory open G major chord on Pink Floyd's Animals recording...There just isn't just enough words to explain acurately how good this guitar sounds...10 This guitar with the 12 guage strings plays almost as good as my Les Paul! The touch is light, intonation is SPOT on, no buzzes, and the neck is ROCK SOLID..." read more »

"In 1954, we introduced the F-30 Aragon, the smallest of the original flat-top guitars...By 1959, the F-30 Aragon had a mahogany back and sides...Our new orchestra-body model is based on the 1956 F-30 Aragon, with all solid woods, a red spruce top and bracing, mahogany back and sides, Indian rosewood fingerboard and bridge, bone nut and saddle, bone bridge pins, tortoise binding, 1 11/16” nut and lacquer finish..." read more »

"The quality and ubiquity of our jumbo 12-strings have earned Guild a permanent place in guitar history...One of the keys to achieving that clarity and definition is solid construction...Designed in the late 1960s as Guild’s first jumbo 12-strings, the F-412 and its sibling, the F-512, are two of our most enduring and popular guitars..." read more »

"There is however a problem with the bottom strap button on the guitar, and maybe this is just mine, but it seems when I take the strap off/put it on, it comes unscrewed kind of easily, not like falling out unscrewed, but unscrewed slightly none the less...and I compared it to all the other guilds in the store (including a western), it never buzzes, and I have never had one problem with sound...This guitar comes with a vintage tweed case with leather sides, that adds to all of this guitars immense beauty, and a plush insides that holds the guitar like it was the king of all other acoustic guitars..." read more »