Talk:Guild Guitar Company

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This article needs help. It needs:

• content
• structure
• some idea of where it's going

Right now it looks more like a jumble of random facts than like anything really informative. Respectfully, SamBlob 14:54, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Hank Hill

I'm removing the Hank Hill reference for now. He's definitely not the only cartoon guitarist to play a "real" guitar (I'm pretty sure the guys in Big Mountain Fudgecake (also from King of the Hill) play Dean guitars, and Dethklok (Metalocalypse) uses Gibsons. The bit at the end kind of the paragraph kind of ruins the reference anyway, since it's made clear that the show only *says* he's playing a "real" guitar, but it's incorrect as drawn (assuming it's not some kind of custom guitar). It's pretty much saying "Hank Hill sorta-kinda plays a Guild," and is that really notable? You tell me. intooblv (talk) 01:53, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Edit: Here's the bit I removed, in all it's glory, in case someone wants to fix it up:

"Hank Hill of King of the Hill is perhaps the only cartoon guitarist to actually have a real model instead of a generic-looking guitar. He owns a 1963 Guild solid top acoustic nicknamed "Betsy". It is one of his most cherished possessions. However, the guitar he plays, as drawn, could not have existed from that era, as Flattops did not come with cutaways as regular features until some time in the 1970s, and have never incorporated tailpiece bridges." intooblv (talk) 01:56, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

Artist list

Why did approximately two-thirds of the list of Guild instrument users get delisted last month? A wikipedian arbitrarily ¨cleaned up¨ the page, but the list was fine the way it was. Thesithwithashotgunshell (talk) 03:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC) I can't believe you don't have Rock pioneer Charlie Gracie among the artist who use Guild Guitars, Charlie still performs regularly and just finished a tour of the UK. He has been like an ad for Guild Guitars for decades.Oldpanther (talk) 20:54, 12 December 2010 (UTC)

R. Neumann Leathers building

The copy says; "Rapid expansion forced the company to move to much larger quarters, on Newark St. in Hoboken, New Jersey, in what is now known as the R. Neumann Leathers building."

It was always known as the R. Neumann Leathers building, since some of the buildings have stood since the Civil War. The building is question was there since the mid 1800s. DavidRavenMoon (talk) 00:21, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

Cutaways

This article states that Guild made the first production acoustic guitars with cutaways in 1972. This is clearly false, and they were not the first. The Selmer-Maccaferri guitars were the earliest production model guitars to feature cutaways as a standard feature. They were made between 1932 to about 1952. Gibson started putting cutaways on archtops during the 30's, and their first flattop acoustic guitar model with a cutaway was the CF-100, which was introduced in 1950. I believe this entry was probably put in the article by Rick Excellente himself. I used to work for the guy, and he tells tall tales! DavidRavenMoon (talk) 07:58, 24 February 2013 (UTC)