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Dragon Rider
May 2nd, 2011, 08:17 PM
Hello to all I found this place following a youtube video.

I used to play a bit in high school and am now a confirmed beginner.

My favorite guitar is also the best 'mother in law' story I have.

A few years after my wife and I were married we were visiting my Mother in law. She pulled this guitar case out from under the spare bed and asked if I would sell it for her. She said she didn't know what it was worth and was afraid of getting ripped off.

After I saw the guitar, I said, REALLY you want to SELL this??

(I was her husbands)

and she said, yes, it has just been under the bed since he died,


Unless of course, you want it???

HECK YES I WANT IT. :dude

now, is that a cool mother-in-law or what? :dance

so I took the guild T100D, 'slim jim' home.

From the guild website the serial number makes it a 1965.

Almost as old as I am.
http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/DragonRider_013/MyGuildT100D.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/DragonRider_013/myguildserial.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn20/DragonRider_013/myguildpickup.jpg

it has some company on the wall in the music corner but always gets the place of honor.
Katastrophe
May 2nd, 2011, 10:48 PM
Welcome!

That sure is a beautiful guitar you have there. I wish Guild still made electrics. They had some fine guitfiddles back in the day!
FrankenFretter
May 3rd, 2011, 07:05 AM
Welcome aboard! That was a great mother-in-law story, indeed. Interestingly, I was just reading about the Slim Jim last night. Very nice!
Tig
May 3rd, 2011, 07:11 AM
Welcome to The Fret, Dragon Rider. Good to have you here. There are several of us here that picked up the guitar again after time away.

I sure like that Guild... Wanna' sell it? :poke
I wish I had a guitar playing relitive, but maybe I'll be the one who passes a few to later generations.
Dragon Rider
May 3rd, 2011, 07:26 AM
I sure like that Guild... Wanna' sell it? :pokes.

Na, It will go to my son when he expresses an interest in guitars with a story that it is a gift from a granda he never got to meet.

Thus I'll have kept it in the family for three generations.

What my son does with it is up to him. (so wait 20 yrs and ask him :D )
Monkus
May 3rd, 2011, 11:47 AM
good story,welcome !!!
sunvalleylaw
May 3rd, 2011, 10:36 PM
Welcome DR!
Brian Krashpad
May 4th, 2011, 08:45 AM
Holy cow, DR, that Guild is SWEET!

Hard to beat the price.

Welcome!
Tig
May 4th, 2011, 08:47 AM
Na, It will go to my son when he expresses an interest in guitars with a story that it is a gift from a granda he never got to meet.


Naaah, I wasn't serious. Just messin' with ya.
(hence the: :poke )
Dragon Rider
May 4th, 2011, 09:17 AM
Naaah, I wasn't serious. Just messin' with ya.
(hence the: :poke )

I knew you were kidding, :D