Description

Guild’s new 40 Standard Series introduces our new Vintage Gloss nitro finish. This all-new finish is an ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer with both satin and gloss qualities that highlight the natural beauty of the tone woods. With an even smoother texture than a nitro satin finish, the Vintage Gloss features a hand-sprayed soft, silky coating that gives each guitar a worn-in vintage feel and tone, with a modern sleek appearance. This new iteration of the D-40 Standard provides the ultimate dreadnought sound. With it’s solid Sitka Spruce top with solid African Mahogany back and sides, the D-40 Standard serves up remarkable volume, clarity, and sustain that’s perfect for anything from vocal accompaniment to solo work, and many other “unplugged” applications. The D-40 Standard manifests vintage charm with timeless appointments such as a tortoiseshell celluloid pickguard, white ABS binding, and Guild’s peak logo inlay on the headstock. Guild adds forward-shifted scalloped Adirondack bracing for power, nuance and responsiveness. Combined with a Sitka Spruce top and African Mahogany back and sides, this bracing provides a punchy tone with smooth top end. An Indian Rosewood fingerboard caps the comfortable C-profile Mahogany neck. Premium materials such as an Indian Rosewood bridge, 20:1 open-gear tuners, and a hand-cut bone nut and saddle finish off the D-40 Standard. In addition to the classic Natural finish, Guild’s new 40 Standard Series debuts the new Pacific Sunset Burst. Inspired by Guild’s Southern California home, this new finish embodies casual elegance with a subtle edge burst. Each D-40 Standard ships with a Guild archtop wood case with built-in Humicase® humidification system.

• Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Back and Sides: Solid African Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany
• Scale Length: 25 5/8″
• Neck Shape: C
• Nut Width: 1 11/16″
• Saddle: Compensated Bone
• Nut: Bone
• Fingerboard and Bridge: Indian Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 12″
• Top Bracing Pattern: Scalloped X
• Sound hole Diameter: 3 7/8″ (98mm)
• Rosette: ABS Rings
• Top Purfling Inlay: Black and White ABS
• Body Binding: White ABS
• Neck Thickness 1st Fret: 21mm
• Neck Thickness 9th Fret: 22.5mm
• Truss Rod: Dual Action
• Truss Rod Wrench: 8mm Socket
• Fingerboard Inlays: 5mm Dots – Pearloid
• Fingerboard Inlay Locations: 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (x2), 15, 17
• Frets: 20
• Color: Pacific Sunset Burst (PSB)
• Finish: Vintage Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Bridge String Spacing: 2 1/8″ (54mm)
• Bridge Pins: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Tuning Machines: Guild Deluxe Vintage Open Gear
• Endpin: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
• Upper Bout Width: 11 5/8″
• Lower Bout Width: 16″
• Body Depth Upper Bout: 4″
• Body Depth Lower Bout: 5″
• Body Length: 20″
• Overall Length: 41 3/4″
• Case: Guild Deluxe Humidified Wood Case