Guild F-20 Troubador Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (1967), made in Hoboken, NJ, serial # AG-2032, sunburst top, natural back and sides finish, mahogany back, sides and neck, spruce top, rosewood fingerboard, original black chipboard case.
The often extremely fine sounding Guild flattops of the 1960's are surprisingly hard to find these days; examples this nice are far from common! This is a mid-1967 sunburst-top F-20, the smallest body size in the company's line up. The F-20 was the next model up from the all mahogany M-20 (famously regarded as the "Nick Drake" guitar) and is the same size and shape but with a spruce top instead of all-mahogany construction. This is very a smooth little finger-or-flatpicking guitar, with a vibrant midrangey sound, and also works well as a strummed chord machine.
The bright and unfaded dark reddish-orange sunburst finish seen on this guitar is a standard option but less often seen than a plain natural top. This is an extremely well-built little guitar, much lighter in construction than 1970's Guilds and easily a match in sound for similar Martin offerings from the same era. This is a fine recording or gigging guitar, a nice example of one of the best small body flat tops of the 1960's
Overall length is 39 1/4 in. (99.7 cm.), 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 24 1/2 in. (622 mm.). Width of nut is 1 11/16 in. (43 mm.). This guitar is all original and very well preserved overall; there are no repairs or alterations except the bridge top appears to have been slightly lowered around the saddle abd there is a small tightly repaired old pickguard crack in the typical spot under the B string. An fine player with a very warm sound. Overall Excellent Condition.
