"Special Order Only"…

This 17-inch-wide "High End Twelve String Guitar" weighs just 6.60 lbs. and has a really fat nut width of just over 1 13/16 inches and a scale length of 25 1/2 inches. Single-piece carved maple back, flamed maple sides and close-grained "X-Braced" spruce top. Two-piece maple neck with 'double trussrod system', walnut center-strips and a lovely medium-to-thick profile. Ebony fretboard with 20 jumbo frets, pearl block with abalone "V" inlay position markers and inlaid double white lines on each side of the fingerboard. The top and back have seven-ply black and white binding, and the soundhole rings are in three groups of seven white and black, fifteen white and black and seven white and black. Triple-bound black-faced headstock with inlaid Inlaid pearl "Guild" logo and pearl "G-shield" inlay. Four-layer (black, white, black, white) 'shield shaped' plastic truss-rod cover with two screws. Serial number ("91264") impressed into the back of the headstock. Twelve individual "Guild" Roto-Matic tuners with half-moon metal buttons. Single-layer black celluloid pickguard. Combined bridge / tailpiece with ivory bar bridge on rosewood base with twelve ivory string pins. With the Guild ' white oval label inside the sound-hole with Model "F-412 Bld" and the serial number "91264" written in pencil. All hardware gold-plated. This custom ordered and now quite rare twelve-string guitar is in exceptionally fine (9.00) condition with a little bit of playing wear on the treble edge of the soundhole, some light checking and just a few insignificant surface marks on the top and on the back of the neck. Housed in the original Guild black five-latch hardshell case with blue plush lining (9.00).

"On the higher-end, Guild introduced the 12-string versions of the F-50 and the F-50R, called the F-412 and the F-512 respectively, both available by "special order" only. The '69 catalog shows a picture of the F-412, but not of the F-512. It does however mention "the customized elegance of inlaid mother-of-pearl figures on the fingerboard". Some earlier F-512's indeed have different fingerboard inlays. You will find similar inlays on many "special order" instruments from the late '60s and early '70s as well as the Custom F-612 that was introduced in 1972." (Hans Moust. The Guild Guitar Book, p. 130).