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Location: Nashville TN. | Does this mean there about to be a Guild Gallery?
I think the OMG Guild are being made by Ovation will pass in time.
Guild was no respect brand even before Ovation was.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
Now, AL ... How do I get one of those 10 GSR-30 models? Now THAT'S something I would also be interested in knowing. Killer guitar that I wouldn't mind owning. Al, let me know also! |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by PEZ:
[QB)Guild was no respect brand even before Ovation was.[/QB] That is so true. My first real guitar was a Guild G-37. It cost about half that of a comparable Gibson, but was just as good in every aspect. It was my only guitar for 26 years and I literally wore it out. It needed a neck re-set, re-fretting, fingerboard leveling and some lacquer re-finishing. I brought it to my local very experienced luthier and he said that it would cost over $500 to do the work. He didn't recommend putting that much money into a guitar that cost $260 new. His last remark to me was "Well, maybe if it were a Gibson." |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | COI |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Well, I have three Guilds, so I guess I should plan to attend one of these future tours, and I'm always interested in special gear offerings, too. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad, any acoustics or all electrics? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Originally posted by stephent28:
Brad, any acoustics or all electrics? All 'lectrics. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | That was a big deal at the tour.
Almost all of the LTG members were whining and lamenting that Guild no longer made electric guitars. |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | My blonde maple Starfire IV is a 1996, the last year they were made in the USA. The other two are also USA made and include a Pilot Bass and a vintage S-250. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
My blonde maple Starfire IV is a 1996, the last year they were made in the USA. The other two are also USA made and include a Pilot Bass and a vintage S-250. Brad:
Those guitars would have been a big hit at the tour. |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by Weaser P:
"And nobody put their guitars out to just be on display. Every guitar put out was played by anybody who wanted to play them. In 07 when Al devlived my OFC guitar (ding!) that Thursday nite, I took it out to the lobby and didn't see it for the rest of the evening. Everybody played it. Even (choke) Weas."
That's absolutely correct. If I recall, I was sitting with Jerome, Tom and Waskel and I was trying to pry up a couple of the eppys to see if they had changed the glue at all on the OFC's but ran out of Tequila before I could get into it...ah, good times. 
Not exactly who you mentioned but this also happened. |
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Location: closely held secret | Ah, yes. I believe I'm playing Jeff's custom Ute there.
I've seen that look on Weaser's face. Just before I hit the deer. |
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| Ah yes - The Committee For The Preservation Of The E Chord.
Jeff's ute twins are cutaways. |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Normally people wait until they're out of a situation before they try to block it out of their minds forever.
I was trying as it happened. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Everyone bitches that Guild isn't making electrics anymore
Everyone bitches that Ovation isn't making electrics anymore
Can you say Hamer? |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | We can......... but I think it is beyond the comprehension of the Guild crowd (brand loyalty and all that).
I bet if the Guild tour would have included just a bit of the Hamer facility there would have been some converts. As it was, Hamer was mentioned in passing as pretty much doing only custom orders. |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by schroeder:
Jeff's ute twins are cutaways. What the heck was I playing then? |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Waskel:
Originally posted by schroeder:
Jeff's ute twins are cutaways. What the heck was I playing then? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | It was Jason's Export W681-T2 Adamas |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks, Dave. How do you remember all this crap?
Originally posted by moody, p.i.:
Those of us who were listening to you play have been asking that question ever since...... At least it was memorable. |
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Location: SoCal | Dave owned one of these once. I couldn't name the model number but know that it was a "made for export" Adamas. Al had several for sale at one time.... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | They are HONKING GOOD GUITARS !!!
Mine (-8) is with my son, who ironically I visited this past weekend and played it. Absolutely as nice as I remembered it. Oh, and the neck was glossed. |
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Location: SoCal | I never cared for the dramatic reverse burst on the top, but I remember the first time I played one (in a guitar store in Hollywood, wondering around with Temp). I hit a chord and my reaction was "Holy Gert Stonkers"! They are/were monster guitars.... |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by Beal:
Everyone bitches that Guild isn't making electrics anymore
Everyone bitches that Ovation isn't making electrics anymore
Can you say Hamer? The LTG folks know nothing about Hamer. There was very little mentioned about Hamer at the tour. The Guild fans simply want to see a full line of Guild guitars, including electrics, produced in New Hartford. Frank Untermyer appeared to be very eager to start a new line of Guild arch top electrics if given the "go" from Fender, but there's no real market for a new line of Guild electrics. The economic realities will eventually dictate what Guild guitars will be produced at the New Hartford factory. |
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Location: Nashville TN. | If they saw Hamer that might change.
My Newport Pro is far superior to any Guild electric. |
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