Nashville D-40 - 1970’s Made In Japan 🇯🇵! - Perfect 70’s Guild Copy! -

This one is stunning! Amazing player and unreal sounding 70's Guild copy from the famed Matsumoku factory in Japan, made during the golden age of Japanese guitar production! Perfect Guild copy!

There is the scene in American Hustle in which Christian Bale's character proposes that the art of copying another artist's work so perfectly that it can't be told apart from the original is actually more worthy of artistic merit than the original artist. He makes a compelling point. This guitar is like Gary Oldman disappearing into Winston Churchill so completely that he's completely gone and only Winston Churchill remains. This guitar is method acting the hell out of a 70's Guild D-40 so perfectly it's like Daniel Day Lewis staying in character as Lincoln even when he's off set at a CVS buying toilet paper. There's a few copies of guitars out there where they're way beyond aesthetics, but where they really seem to wholeheartedly become the soul and essence of the guitars they set out to imitate. 

There's a few things that make a Guild a Guild, and by Guild, I mean everything leading up to the closure of the Rhode Island factory in the early 2000's. There's nice modern guitars that say Guild on them now and they're really really nice...but the heart and soul of Guild was in those East Coast factories and everyone knows it. They were really heavily built and rugged, extremely resistant to warping, and they sounded huge like cannons. They were great to tour with because they can go between different climates way better than most other guitars that were more lightly built. The necks stay dead straight forever, I've had a Guild for 20 years and it just never needs a neck adjustment. There's a particular tell-tale dead straightness to the necks of old Guilds, and this guitar has EXACTLY that dead straightness. They nailed it, that's a big thing about what makes a Guild a Guild, and they totally crushed it. The action is nice and comfortable, the neck is so straight the entire fretboard is at your disposal, each note is super clear and loud. The tone is huge and beautiful, deep with great bass but also very shimmery. It would be a great recording guitar! 

There's some battle scars here and there, but it is a super healthy player and it passes it's physical with flying colors. It's ready for years of serious playing. It can take anything you throw at it with a huge dynamic response range, all the way up from hyper aggressive Richie Havens picking down to super delicate fingerpicking. There's clear tone all across the board, just like a real 70's Guild! The real ones are getting prohibitively out of reach, but there's some (definitely not all!) copies that play the imitation game so well that they're totally one of the pack. Through and through this is a solid 70's Guild, and it's way more of a Guild than anything that's said Guild on it since the last day of the Westerly R.I. Guild factory in 2001! Amazing guitar!