Guild D-50 Bluegrass Special – USA 1974

‘Now, the Guild D-50 Bluegrass Special is a guitar built with one purpose in mind: to compete directly with the Martin D-28. In every single way this guitar was created and designed towards that one singular end, and it does compete well with the Martin D-28. The proof is that the guitar is still made to this very day, because it has proven successful towards the end for which it was created. 

There is one thing in particular that makes the Guild D-50 Bluegrass Special a more favourable instrument to the Martin for some. It's the fact the Guild D-50 Bluegrass Special features a solid red, or Adirondack, spruce soundboard, or top. The standard Martin HD-28 comes with a Sitka spruce soundboard or top. It is often thought the Adirondack spruce provides a louder and clearer tonality, and also more sustain, than does the more common Sitka spruce soundboard.’ 

This Guild D-50 has a very easy neck to get around. With a standard nut width and it’s the slender C profile that really lets you wrap your mitts around it.  

Chords, finger picking, licks, flat picking and open string runs are all fair game and players of any level will appreciate the overall slinky feel of this nice Guild.  

It’s dread styled body opens up the bottom end for a clear and balanced tone great for the chord playing singer songwriter but there’s also some sizzle in there if you need to get a bit more percussive. 

This one owner guitar was bought new in the USA in 1974. It has been well looked after and shows some signs of wear and tear from general play over the years, minimal fret deterioration and there are no structural issues. 

Comes in a non-original hardshell case in great condition. 

Features:

Action at 1st fret: 0.25mm

Action at 12th fret: 3.0mm

Neck depth at 1st fret: 21.98mm

Nut Width: 42.76mm

12 fret width: 53.66mm

Weight: 2.42kg / 5.32lb

Solid spruce top 

Rosewood sides and back 

Mahogany neck with fully adjustable truss rod 

20 Fret Ebony fingerboard with inlaid mother-of-pearl position dots. 

Inlaid head-plate 

Chrome plated machines 

Ebony bridge 

Black pick guard 

White 7-ply ivoroid binding inlaid around top and back 

Neck joins the body at 14th fret. 

Dimensions: Body 15 3/4” (40 cm.) wide, 20” (50.8 cm.) long, 5” (12.7 cm.) deep. 

Overall length 42” (106.6 cm.) 

Scale length 25 5/8” (65 cm.)