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Guild GAD-JF30 (No Longer Available)Item ID: GADJF30BLD6-string Acoustic Jumbo Guitar with Solid Spruce Top, Solid Flame Maple Back and Sides, Pearl Inlays, with Case 
Sorry, the Guild GAD-JF30 is no longer available. We've left this page up for reference only. Check out the great alternatives on this page or call toll-free (800) 222-4700 to speak with a Sweetwater Sales Engineer about similar products. From Our Research Team:A Guitar Worthy Of GuildThe Guild® GAD-JF30 was designed utilizing the jumbo maple body that has been in the Guild® line since 1954. The Guild GAD-JF30 is crafted with solid flamed maple for the back and sides, a solid spruce top that features scalloped bracing, and then joined the one piece mahogany neck with the traditional dovetail neck joint. Other appointments on the GAD-JF-30 are ebony for the fingerboard and bridge, pearl dot inlayed bridge and strap pins, wood bindings, and Grover Rotomatic tuning gears. For the best in tone and intonation, the Guild GAD-JF30 features a bone nut and bone compensated saddle. For the finishing touches Guild inlayed classic pearl fingerboard inlays and then packed the instrument in a wooden arched case. A guitar worthy of representing over 50 years of fine guitar building by Guild Guitars.Guild GAD-JF30 Features:
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ReviewsA great Guitar
by Kraig McCluskey from United States
I bought a one of these as a recon with case for $400 I was going to use it as my beater guitar when I went to friends or taught so I would not have to take one of my higher end guitars with me. Well ... read more [+]after playing with this on and off for a couple months it has become my main goto acoustic, I am now going to have to buy a beater guitar for it. This guitar has so much tone and projection that pick control can really make a big differacne in the tone that you get, it also has a really nice thin neck. The qualitiy and craftsmanship of this guitar rivals any of its USA made compendators. well worth checking out. close [-]
May 8, 2009 Music Background: intermedate, student/teacher GAD-JF30 is unfair to high-end guitar owners.
by Joe Milanese from Connecticut
I just acquired a Guild GAD-JF30 Jumbo Acoustic guitar after examining one owned by an acquaintance.October 6, 2007 Music Background: Hobbyist I'm sorry, but there was a time when this type of excellence was reserved for musicians, w... read more [+]ho through a successful career or well-to-do parents, could afford to lay out $3000, or more, for a high-end, status-branded instrument. This was one of the perks bestowed upon the "haves". Now, status-brand Guild has taken privilege away from the privileged! With this new GAD-JF30 just about everyone has high-end excellence within their reach. My blond beauty retails for about $1199 but can be had for around $899, or less! What's next, beluga at Mickie-Dees? I'm sorry, but there should be SOME advantage to wealth. If we can have this kind of excellence for under $3000 where's the incentive to working hard and acquiring oodles of $$$? To the makers of the GAD-JF30; You people are risking the wholesale collapse of the capitalist system! Where would we be then? close [-] Guilds from China ?!
by marindavid from Marin County, CA
Guitars from China?May 9, 2007 Music Background: Musicker In my search for a relatively inexpensive guitar to keep for use at the office, I have looked at, tried and actually purchased several. Looking in the range of $200-250., I be... read more [+]gan with a (used) Simon & Patrick TSU. Nice little dreadnaught, build in Canada of solid woods – but not enough bass for me. I moved on next to the Walden G570 just after it had been favorably reviewed in Acoustic Guitar magazine in May 2007. This Grand Auditorium size guitar is made in China in a small city just south of Beijing – my first try of one of these. I was pleasantly surprised at its easy playability and better-than-expected sustainability and decent bass sound – yet, I wasn’t quite satisfied. It was too light for my taste (Cedar top and laminated sapele mahogany back and sides). Then, I began to read about the Guild GAD line – manufactured to Guild specs in China. I decided to raise the ante up to the $500-$750 range, and have wound up with the GAD-30R (Orchestra size) with the natural finish. I’m not sure why I had reservations about buying an instrument made half-way around the world. After all, they have been making lots of things (not just fire crackers) for a lot longer than we have. This includes musical instruments. This realization, along with the good experience with the low-cost Walden, along with the wide range of excellent professional and user reviews of the GAD-30R, caused me to try and then buy one. Appearance This guitar is nicely put together. There are no evident flaws in either the assembly or finish and with the natural tone top (which I prefer on all my guitars) the Mother-of-Pearl Position inlays and the Abalone dot position inlays stand out more than they might in the other available finishes (Antique Burst and Amber Burst.) This is also true of the little appointments that are not the first thing you notice about a guitar: like the Ebony bridge and end pins, the back center wood mosaic inlay, the small and uniquely shaped Guild tortoise shell pickguard or the carefully crafted wood body bindings. The plainness of the instrument actually makes it’s appointments stand out – in a tasteful way, of course. This guitar bears the standard Guild Mother-of-Pearl headstock logo. The finish is smooth and nicely glossy, but not reflectively distracting. Funny – it doesn’t look Chinese! Construction I suppose that the most extraordinary feature of this guitar is how much guitar it really is for the price. I can only assume this has to do with the lower cost of both labor and materials in China – but the net product is on a par with some of the best guitars I have played that are made here in the US. With a Dovetail neck joint, the materials appear to be first rate. The top is solid Sitka spruce and the back and sides are solid Indian Rosewood as is the bridge. The neck is solid mahogany and the fingerboard is ebony – a feature I find especially accommodative to my own playing style. There is nothing quite as smooth and easy as ebony! The tuning machines are Grover Stay-Tites. The width at the nut is a little wider than my Martin HD28 at 1 12/16 (the Martin standard is 1 11/16) but narrower than the twelve string Taylor 355 with it’s 1 14/16 width. It seems to me that the small increase in width makes finger picking, a style I am new to, somewhat easier than it is on a neck narrower by only a seemingly silly little16th of an inch. The scale is 25 ½�, there are 20 frets and the fretboard radius is 12� and the interior bracing is scalloped. Playability I found this guitar to be quite player-friendly. That is, the strings (Light Phosphor Bronze), frets and fingerboard work with little effort under the ministrations of my less-than-expert fingerings. It produces the sounds I expect to hear at the volume at which I intend them. I would call these particular characteristics responsiveness. The bass and treble tones are nicely balanced – one not overpowering the other, yielding a tonality that makes accompanying voice(s) a nice experience. Played as a solo instrument, each note rings true and clear. During the first week, I played it for about an hour a day and my hands felt good afterwards! That’s probably one of the best compliments I can give a guitar’s playability – at least so far as it conforms to my own musculature, movements and preferences. Sound While lacking the punch of some of the older US made Guilds, this Orchestra style guitar holds it’s own, either alone or in groups – playing either finger or flat picking lead or strumming rhythm. I have made several allusions to the sound of this guitar in earlier sections of the review but will add here only that, like so many other of it’s features and characteristics, that the sound it produces is honestly surprising. It sounds as good (or batter than) guitars costing 2-4 times as much. Overall Value A lot of guitar for a reasonable modest price. Delivered with a distinctive tweed covered hard shell case, you really can’t go wrong with this one. Responsive to fingers, fingerpicks and flatpicks, it produces sounds one would reasonably expect from a Guild. Representative, I expect, of an entire line (the GAD Series) that is worth exploring further. close [-] AMAZING GUITAR!
by JR WILLIAMS from LOS ANGELES
I went to purchase a J-200 from my local boutique shop and came out with a Chinese made guild jf30 instead. this guitar is comparable to any high-end guitar. PERIOD!
May 6, 2006 Music Background: A Bright Choice
by Anonymous
I bought one of these recently. Musically, the aspect that stands out is how bright it sounds. The maple back and sides and large body really bring out the high end. March 1, 2005 Music Background: Visually, this ... read more [+]is not a quiet guitar either. I haven't seen any pictures on the web that does this guitar justice. The back is book-matched flame maple and the sides are flame maple as well. Very eye-catching. The inlays are nicely done. The bindings on the body appear to be mahogany. Overall, this is a nice guitar. It stands out in its sound and appearance. close [-] |
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