Guild's Top-of-the-Line Dreadnought

This 16-inch-wide acoustic flat top weighs 5.20 lbs. and has a nice, fat nut width of just under 1 3/4 inches and a scale length of 25 3/4 inches. Spruce top, rosewood back and sides, three-piece mahogany/maple/mahogany neck, and ebony fretboard with 20 frets and inlaid abalone hump-top block position markers. The body is multi-bound with maple on the top and bottom, the top has an additional binding of abalone, the soundhole ring is abalone, the fretboard is multi-bound with maple, and the headstock is multi-bound with black laquer laminate. The back of the body has a "marquetry" center strip. Headstock with inlaid abalone "Guild" logo and "G-shield" logo. Individual Grover Roto-Matic tuners with half-moon metal buttons. Black plastic pickguard. White plastic bridge on an ebony base with six white plastic pins with abalone centers. Serial number ("AD100996") and "Made in U.S.A." stamped in blind on the back of the headstock. The serial number is also on a white oval label inside the soundhole. This guitar is in mint (9.50) condition. Housed in the original Guild black hardshell case with maroon plush lining (9.50). In the case is the original owner's registration (Fender) and the Owner's Manual and Warranty. According to our representative from Guild the D100 Dreadnaught was produced in very limited quantities of no more than twenty guitars per year between 1999 and 2001. The retail price in 1999 was $4,000.