Guild D-55E USA - natural
The GUILD D-55E USA (Natural) acoustic/electric steel string dreadnought guitar, remains true to all the premium appointments of its 1968 predecessor, including a AAA Sitka Spruce top, solid Indian Rosewood back and sides, Ebony fingerboard and bridge, and nitrocellulose finish. Internal refinements include scalloped Adirondack Spruce bracing as well as an improved dovetail neck-joint, hand fit to make this generation of D-55 the lightest, loudest, and best-sounding yet.
This version features an LR Bagg system.
First introduced in 1968 as a special-order, the D-55 was so well-received that Guild added it into the regular production line by 1974. Famously played by Tommy Smothers on the Smothers Brothers Show in the 1960s, the D-55 grew in both popularity and longevity over the decades, finding homes in the hands of more contemporary artists like Waylon Jennings, Billie Joe Armstrong, and David Nail.
- SKU GU153
- Steel string acoustic/electric guitar
- Dreadnought
- Made in USA
- Solid Sitka Spruce AAA top
- Solid indian Rosewood back/sides
- Solid Adirondack Spruce scalloped X bracing
- Body length 20" (508 mm)
- Body width 11 5/8" / 295.3 mm > 16" / 406.4 mm
- Body depth 4" / 101.6 mm > 5" / 127 mm
- Mahogany neck, C profile
- Ebony fingerboard, 20 frets (14 outside body)
- Scale 25 5/8" / 650.9 mm
- Radius 12" (305 mm)
- Neck width 1st fret 1 11/16" / 43 mm
- LR Bagg Active system (volume and tone controls in soundhole)
- Gotoh SE700 Open Gear in Gold with Butterbean Buttons, 15:1 Ratio
- Nitrocellulose gloss finish
- Guild Dreadnought Hard-Case
- Euroguitar Reference : 80226
