Maple Body

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Permalink Reply by Mike Henry on November 8, 2009 at 5:37pm

What is your price range? The Guild GAD-30 in maple is an excellent guitar. New they are over a grand, but can be had used for half of that. I bought one used to be a beater, but it is a much nicer guitar than that, and gets regular play along with my other guitars.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Baker on November 9, 2009 at 11:07am

Actually, Epiphone makes the DR-500P Masterbilt with a solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides. The same basic guitar is available in mahogany and rosewood as well, and the maple version might be a bit harder to find, but the Masterbilt series are good guitars, especially for the money - this one should go for about $550 retail. another option is the Taylor 600 series, but there you're looking at close to $3000.

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Permalink Reply by barry duncan on November 9, 2009 at 5:08pm

thanks for the info.i would love to find a good used maple body guild.
i like the epiphone masterbilt series will ask at the guitar store about a maple body
ilove taylors but have too many hobbies to afford a good one lol

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Permalink Reply by bruce wilson on November 10, 2009 at 1:54pm

Washburn has a nice jumbo spruce/maple for about $750. Played one and was impressed. Nice looking too.

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Permalink Reply by Chris on November 12, 2009 at 4:24am

Saw a maple Guild (older one) on ebay...

I had a 70's epi dread with maple b/s - I don't even know if it was laminated - probably was. Liked the sound, but it's been so long and I've grown picky since then. A buddy has a small maple Gibson, but the sound is kind of dull. I wonder about that Epi Masterbilt maple...

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Permalink Reply by barry duncan on November 12, 2009 at 4:05pm

Jamey Johnson was playing a epiphone maple back and sides last night on the cma awards show

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