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Please see our listing of used Guild guitars following this brief history of Guild.
The Guild Guitar Company was founded in 1952 by Alfred Dronge, and is a USA based company.
New York City was home to the first Guild workshop, but production was later moved to Westerly, Rhode Island. The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation bought Guild in 1995 and moved production to a factory in Corona, California.
FMIC acquired the assets of the Washington-based Tacoma Guitar Company in 2004, and all Guild acoustic guitar manufacturing was moved to Tacoma, while production of Guild electric guitars was discontinued.
The Starfire, Bluesbird, and other 1960s and 1970s models were reissued for a short time in Korea under the DeArmond brand name. The reissued models also included the Pilot Bass Series. The reissued instruments displays the DeArmond inlay on the headstock while the truss rod cover shows the Guild name and logo.
The Fender Musical Instruments Corporation introduced the Chinese-built Guild GAD series acoustic guitars in 2005.
Guild entered the solid-body arena in the 1980s with superstrat-style models such as the Flyer, Aviator, Liberator and Detonator, the Tele-style T-200 and T-250 (endorsed by Roy Buchanan), and the Pilot Bass. The Pilot basses were available in fretted, fretless, 4 and 5-string versions.
These guitars were the first Guild instruments to bear slim pointed headstocks, sometimes called "pointy droopy", "duck foot" and "cake knife" for their dinstinctive shape. Pilot basses were revived by DeArmond in the 1990s (including a 6-string through-neck version with fancy exotic woods) and discontinued along with the DeArmond brand in the early 21st century.
Many top performers have, and continue to use Guild's excellently crafted instruments. Below is just a short list of some of the players that recognized Guild's extraordinary craftsmanship.
- Eric Clapton F-30, GF-6
- Jerry Garcia - (Starfire III)
- Pat Methany - (D40-C)
- Stevie Ray Vaughn - (S-300)
- Bruce Springsteen - (D-40SB)
- Brian Setzer - (Bluesbird)
- Paul Simon - (F-30, F-212 12-String)
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 Guild B402-A Bass Guitar (1981) B 402 A  US $455.00
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 Guild D4-12 String Guitar with hardshell case US $325.00
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 Acoustic Guild Guitar w New Martin Strings, Hard Case US $305.00
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 GUILD D-15 Vintage Acoustic Guitar Westerly RI RARE'88 US $350.00
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 Guild F512 12 String Guitar - Best sounding 12 string!! US $2,200.00
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 Guild Acoustic Guitar GAD-50 US $300.00
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 Guild D-35NT Acoustic Guitar 1970 Vintage US $208.38
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 GUILD Guitar GAD-30ATB Acoustic Classic Steel String ! US $203.50
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 Guild F47RCE acoustic Electric Guitar US $635.00
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 Guild GAD-25 Acoustic Dreadnought Guitar US $130.00
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 1976 Guild D-55 Acoustic Guitar US $810.00
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 GUILD F47MCE ACOUSTIC GUITAR VERY NICE!!! US $202.50
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