The Guild Custom Shop presents the beautifully crafted and
rich-sounding Orpheum series “Slope 12″ dreadnought acoustic. U.S.-built
by the talented luthiers of the Guild Custom Shop, Orpheum series
models are designed to stylishly evoke the bygone 1930s-era golden age
of U.S. acoustic guitar design and construction. Indeed, you could say
that Orpheum models are finely crafted Guild guitars that never were but
could have been. The Slope 12 offers a distinctive difference for the
discerning player—sloping shoulders that gracefully curve away from the
neck in marked contrast to conventional straight-shoulder dreadnought
design. Further, its three-piece mahogany/rosewood/mahogany neck joins
the body at the 12th fret, contributing to an abundantly complex yet
warm and balanced tone that makes it ideal for flat picking and
finger-style playing.
Premium features also include an Adirondack
red spruce top with scalloped red spruce bracing, solid mahogany back
and sides, traditional hot hide-glue construction, soft-“V” neck
profile, 20-fret ebony fingerboard with pearl-dot inlays and 12″ radius,
bone nut, elegant cream body binding, and a nitrocellulose lacquer neck
finish. Other features include a tortoiseshell pickguard, pyramid-style
ebony bridge with bone saddle and pins, Guild-logo Gotoh SE-700
open-back tuners with cream buttons, and deluxe hard-shell case.
Natural Finish