Guild F-250E Review and Upgrade - The Fret Board
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- I review a Guild F-250E jumbo guitar and show how I replaced the tuners and the bridge pins, showing all the details, step-by-step. Check out the whole PurdueMET Channel at: / purduemet
Great video Mark. I did not gain any unknown info from watching, but non the less I was drawn in and had to see it to the end. Excellent delivery.
Great sounding guitar. Thanks for taking the time to share the info as I’ve been looking at this model.
I trust a luthiers opinion on a guitar more than anyone so I appreciate you making the video!
Thanks :-)
This video is very informative. I actually bought this exact guitar back in May and noticed the same thing with the tuners and thought perhaps I just happened to receive the grunt of the litter. I guess at $800 (I'm in Canada)we can't really complain. Anyhow, after watching your video I think I'll bring my guild to a luthier and get new tuners and pegs installed. Thanks for posting this!
My pleasure. I hope it works out well for you :-)
I have this Guitar ordered from Guitar Center. It will be my back up guitar. Your review and changes seem fine. IF my tuners are loose, I'll use the bushing kit you showed first.
I got a Guild alligator tolex case for around $100.00 online.
I also changed out the pins for black Tusq presentation pins with shell inserts. Increased sustain.
For Christmas I will be getting a set of Kluson 18:1 open gear tuners with cream buttons as I love the old style look.
It is a great guitar.
And Tusq pins have a 3 degree taper.
Sounds like a pretty nice setup :-)
Just to follow up, I've been asking friends in the guitar world about whether 3 deg pins or 5 deg pins are more popular. Nobody seems to know.
The Guild website lists the fretboard and bridge as Pau Ferro. I have recently bought a F-240E, which is also uses Pau Ferro for these parts and have to say that the fretboard is really nice. I prefer it to the Rosewood fretboards that some of my guitars have, though the Ebony on my Guild S-300 is the best of all! Good to know that the bridge pins are three degree, I was planning to upgrade mine when I change strings, saves me measuring!😎
Really awesome
Easily understood instructional
Thank you
Great Video. Thank you Mark, for sharing this Video. Who else can set up a stringed musical instrument better than a physicist-musician-instrument maker. Would love to see more such videos covering the acoustics of stringed musical instruments.
Thanks for the encouragement. At the end of the semester, I'll have time to make some more.
@@purdueMET Thank you. Would be great to see culmination of science and art of lutherie producing great music.
Got the very same guitar. Like you I am not satisfied with “well enough”. I swapped the nut and saddle out with Graph Tech Tusq XL parts. Removed the piezo pickup system while I was doing the upgrades. Lastly I swapped out the bridge pins for heavier solid brass pins. Stock the guitar is nice, but I felt like it was being choked by the piezo system. (And it was.) Removing the soft wire, and making solid direct from saddle to wood contact woke up the beast so to speak. Sounds like a jumbo Guild should! I didn’t find the tuners to be an issue on mine after a simple once over with a screwdriver and a small amount of lithium grease added to the gears. I will give this bit of advice to anyone who buys this guitar. Be sure to buy a truss rod tool that can handle deep clearance. Cruz tools makes a perfect wrench for exactly this. It’s a life saver. Truss rod socket is a 4mm hex FYI. I love my Guild, and I highly recommend trying one at least if you can.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by removing the softwire and piezo pickup? Does it mean you made it non electric? Thanks
I just picked up the 1250ce 12 string. Got it for 700. Beautiful guitar but the first thing I thought out of the box is new turners and I'm the type who doesn't mod guitars.
Great review. Thank you for sharing. GOD Bless.
You're most welcome :-)
David Warther & Co. in Ohio has correct sized bridge pins for about any guitar. He has 3 degree for sure as i bought 2 sets for my Guilds. Cattle bone, ivory and mammoth tusk!
Thinking of buying one!
Definitely play one before you buy. I hope you like it :-)
@@purdueMET That is still difficult to do with inventories like they are. GC has a 45 day exchange/return. I don't know about Sweetwater. I buy from them too.
Hi, I just got this guitar. Will be upgrading tuners with Grover sta-tites as soon as they arrive. I upgraded saddle to bone. I removed the undersaddle pickup element as I don't play plugged in anyway and dropped in the bone saddle. Sounds a lot better, fuller, more sustain to my ears. I want to upgrade bridge pins from the cheapo plastic ones. Having a hard time finding pins that are so narrow. Any links to pins that will work are appreciated. I prefer ebony. Thanks!
I initially had a tough time finding 3 degree pins. That's why I went to the 5 degree pins. Later, I found that Luthier Mercantile (lmii.com) has a nice selection of 3 degree pins.
Just ordered one from Musicians friend. I'm going to change the nut and saddle to bone.
hi, I would like to buy a Guild of this model but I have never been able to try it. can you tell me if it's soft and easy to play or hard? thank you very much. Joseph
It has the same scale length as most full size guitars, 25.5 in, so the strings will feel about the same. I like D'Addario silk and steel strings. They are a softer on my fingers.
Is good guitar ?
this is someone with a hobby who needs a hobby...
This IS my hobby 😊
Do you know Phillip Owens? He's a Professor at Purdue in AG or Agronomy! Known him since I was 5. We grew up together, went to school together, played sports together, got in trouble together, used to spend the night at each others house and hit the fishing holes and everything else two old country boys from Arkansas could get themselves into ....LOL. Love the vids, I have the same guitar. May do these upgrades to mine as well, thanks for info. I subscribed, I need your knowledge to help me work on all my guitars
I'm afraid I don't. I looked him up and he's in Agronomy. There are a couple thousand faculty here, so there are certainly some top people here I've never even heard of.
@@purdueMET That's alright, thanks so much for checking into it. Regardless, love your channel and love the knowledge you are sharing with all of us. I'm 51 and I've played guitar for 34 years. I currently have this same guitar in the sunburst and absolutely love it. I'm telling ya, these days you don't have to go expensive to get a good guitar. I bought mine as a blemished guitar, had a few scratches but was brand new with a case for $375 off an ebay store that sets them up for ya too. I have 14 acoustic guitars in total, ranging from $200 all the way up to $5,500. I have 6 electric guitars. The closest guitar shop and luthier is 65 miles from me. So as you can see, I really need to know how to fix at least the minor to semi-serious issues. I bought a $1,250 DeAngelico New York Excel Acoustic/electric with brand new case from the same ebay store for $220 because it had a broken headstock. I glued and clamped it back together on my kitchen table 2 years ago, it plays like a charm and is a great guitar, stays in tune with no problems. Currently have a used Blueridge BR-140 I picked up from a guy on ebay who does storage recovery. The back of the bridge was lifted away from the sound board so I'm currently in the process of gluing and clamping it back down. I like to buy what I call "deals" lol, but a lot of time deals need a little TLC to get them back into good working condition. Recently picked up a little 1960ish Harmony Stella guitar. It sounded awful but the person had the bridge set up in the wrong location and intonation was off bad. I finally got it set in the right spot, achieved harmonics on the 5th and 12th frets and like wise was able to be properly tuned open and closed in the 12 frets. I've played for years, but in the past several years I've really started to enjoy working on or fixing guitars and taking on projects like broken headstocks and such that other folks are just going to throw away. There is still a good guitar in there if a person is willing to take the time to fix it. Keep up the good work my man!
i bought the new version of this guitar, it's supposed to be better than your guitar.....do you agree?
Type: Jumbo
Top: Solid Spruce
Back and sides: Flamed maple
X-bracing made of Sitka spruce
Mother of pearl rosette and headstock logo
White binding
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard: Pau Ferro
Neck profile: C
Scale: 648 mm
Nut width: 43 mm
20 Frets
Fishman Sonitone GT-1 pickup with volume and tone controls
Nut and saddle: Nubone
Gold Guild Vintage 18 machine heads
Colour: Blonde High Gloss
❤️🎶🎵👍🎶🎵🙏😎
Picked it up on Zzounds for 489.00
You got a better deal. Nice work :-)
@@purdueMET I love this Guitar! Thanks for the review
Tone Killer Upgrade????
Should have gotten Waverly open back tuners if you felt the need to screw up the guitar.
I've tried Waverly tuners and they were nice, but pretty expensive. The ones I got had a lower gear ratio (15:1 I think). I've used the Sta-Tites for years and they are listed on the Guild web site. They also have an 18:1 ratio.