Guild F512 12 String Jumbo Acoustic Guitar with Case The Guild F512 is one of their most enduring and popular guitars, originally designed in the late 1960’s as one of Guild’s first jumbo 12 strings. Painstakingly true to its vintage roots, this new version of the F512 is the essence of what a 12 string guitar should be. This powerful beauty features the same body dimensions as the original: 17 inches wide, 21 inches long and 4.8 inches deep, with a solid AAA Sitka Spruce top - and solid Rosewood back and sides. The high quality Ebony fingerboard is detailed with Abalone and Mother-of-Pearl block position inlays. The F512 sports Guild’s famous G-shield headstock inlay and gold Grover Rotomatic tuning machines, and includes a deluxe case.
The quality and ubiquity of Guild's jumbo 12 strings have garnered Guild 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 the solid construction that Guild's craftsmen employ. While the body size and scale length are the same as their 6 string jumbos, Guild's 12 strings are 1 13/16 inches wide at the nut, feature a double truss rod system and their time-proven jumbo bracing pattern. All Guild guitars are accompanied by a deluxe archtop case.
Guild F512 Specifications
- Category: Vintage Jumbo 12 String Guitars
- Body Style: 12 string Jumbo
- Top: Solid AAA Sitka Spruce
- Bracing: Custom X
- Back: Solid Rosewood
- Sides: Solid Rosewood
- Neck: 3 Piece Mahogany, Maple, Mahogany
- Width at Nut: 1 13/16 inches
- Fretboard: Ebony (12 inch Radius)
- Scale Length: 25 5/8 inches
- Number of Frets: 20
- Machine Heads: Grover Gold Plated Die-cast Mini Tuners
- Bridge: Ebony
- Hardware: Gold
- Finish: High Gloss (Nitro-cellulose Lacquer)
- Unique Features: Natural Mother-of-Pearl and Abalone Position Inlays, Black Pickguard
- Case: Includes C5217 Deluxe Hardshell Case
- Introduced: 2002
