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F412 Vintage Jumbo 12-String Acoustic-Electric Guitar

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Overview

Even if you've played 12-strings before, you owe it to yourself to try this one.

The quality and ubiquity of Guild's jumbo 12-strings have earned them a permanent place in guitar history. As historians Tom and Mary Anne Evans once wrote, "The basic virtue of Guild 12-strings is that they are very loud and [have] a clarity and definition of sound not normally associated with 12-string guitars."

One of the keys to achieving that clarity and definition is solid construction. While the body size and scale length are the same as Guild's 6-string jumbos, their 12-strings are 1-13/16" wide at the nut, and feature a double truss rod system and their time-tested jumbo bracing pattern.

Designed in the late 1960s as one of Guild's first jumbo 12-strings, the F-412 has an arched curly maple back and solid curly maple sides. Painstakingly true to its vintage roots, this version of the F-412 has the same body dimensions as the original (17" wide, 21" long, 4.8" deep). It features a solid AAA sitka spruce top, high-quality ebony fingerboard with abalone and mother of pearl block inlays, G-shield headstock inlay and gold Grover Rotomatic tuning machines. Features the D-TAR Wave-Length/Load and Lock pickup system.

Features

Body style: jumbo
Top: solid AAA spruce
Bracing: hand shaved
Back: select arched laminated figured maple
Sides: solid figured maple
Bridge: ebony
Neck: 3-piece mahogany/maple/mahogany
Fretboard: ebony (12" radius)
Width at nut: 1-13/16"
No. Of frets: 20
Scale length: 25-5/8"
Hardware: gold
Machine heads: Grover gold plated Rotomatic die-cast tuners
Pickup: D-TAR Wave-Length Pickup and Preamp System with Load 'N Lock Battery Access
Controls: Two adjustable trim pots, one low frequency shelving and one high frequency shelving
Finish: high gloss (nitro-cellulose lacquer)
Unique features: Natural Mother-of-Pearl and Abalone Position Inlays, Tortoise Shell Pickguard
Case: includes C5217 deluxe hardshell guitar case
Strings: Guild L1250 phosphor bronze, gauges .010 - .049

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