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GAD-40C Acoustic Design Series Cutaway Acoustic Guitar

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Overview

A 70-year-old favorite updated with a cutaway.

The Guild GAD-40C has the world's most popular acoustic guitar body shape, one that has been used for more than 70 years.

To accommodate modern playing styles, a Venetian cutaway has been added for easy access to higher registers. This Guild guitar features a solid mahogany back and sides, a solid spruce top with scalloped bracing and a one-piece mahogany neck with traditional dovetail neck joint. Other features include an Indian rosewood fingerboard and bridge, ebony pearl dot-inlayed bridge pins and strap buttons, classic pearl fingerboard inlays, wood binding, bone nut and bone compensated saddle, Grover Rotomatic tuners and a wooden arched case.

Features

  • Body style: single cutaway dreadnaught
  • Top: solid Sitka spruce
  • Bracing: Guild scalloped
  • Back: solid mahogany
  • Sides: solid mahogany
  • Bridge: Indian rosewood pin bridge
  • Neck: 1-piece mahogany
  • Fretboard: Indian rosewood (12" radius)
  • Width at nut: 1-11/16"
  • No. Of frets: 20
  • Scale length: 25-1/2"
  • Hardware: chrome
  • Machine heads: Grover Rotomatic die-cast tuners
  • Finish: high gloss (polyester)
  • Unique features: dovetail neck joint, ornate mother-of-pearl position inlays, abalone side dot position inlays, mother-of-pearl headstock logo, ebony bridge pins with mop dots, ebony end pin with mop dot, bone nut and saddle, dark mahogany body bindings, clear pickguard, back center wood mosaic inlay
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