New Guild D-40 Standard Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Rosewood Fretboard, Pacific Sunset Burst

PLAYER'S PERSPECTIVE

We're proud to bring you another awesome acoustic from Guild! This D-40 is Guild's take on the quintessential dreadnought shape and look, using a classic tonewood combination of a solid spruce top, mahogany back and sides and a rosewood fretboard for a huge, warm sound that's sure to meet your needs. This is a very reasonably-priced dreadnought model that will sound both in the studio and on stage. Come check one out whenever you get a chance!

Details

Vintage Gloss Nitro Finish

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 tonewoods.

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.

Solid Sitka Spruce Top with Solid African Mahogany Back and Sides

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.

Scalloped Adirondack Spruce Bracing

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.

Indian Rosewood Fingerboard and Bridge

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.

Available in Natural and New Pacific Sunset Burst Finish Options

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.

Body

• Body Shape: D - Dreadnought
• Body Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Top Bracing Pattern: Scalloped X
• Soundhole Diameter: 3 7/8" (98mm)
• Rosette: ABS Ring
• Top Purfling Inlay: Black and White ABS
• Body Sides: Solid African Mahogany
• Body Back: Solid African Mahogany
• Body Binding: White ABS
• Upper Bout Width: 11 5/8" (295mm)
• Lower Bout Width: 16" (406mm)
• Body Depth Upper Bout: 4" (101mm)
• Body Depth Lower Bout: 5" (127mm)
• Body Length: 20" (508mm)
• Overall Length: 41 3/4" (1061mm)
  
  

Finish

• Color: Pacific Sunset Burst (PSB)
• Finish: Vintage Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  
  

Neck

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Scale Length: 25 5/8" (651mm)
• Neck Shape: C Shape
• Nut Width: 1 11/16" (43mm)
• Neck Thickness 1st Fret: 21mm
• Neck Thickness 9th Fret: 22.5mm
• Truss Rod: Dual Action
• Truss Rod Wrench: 8mm Socket Wrench
• Fingerboard Material: Indian Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305mm)
• Fingerboard Inlays: 5mm Dots - Pearloid
• Fingerboard Inlay Location: 3, 5, 7, 9, 12 (x2), 15, 17
• Frets Total: 20
• Fret Type: Jescar 43080
  
  

Hardware

• Bridge Material: Indian Rosewood
• Bridge String Spacing: 2 1/8" (54mm)
• Bridge Pins: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Saddle Material: Compensated Bone
• Nut Material: Bone
• Tuning Machines: Guild Deluxe Vintage Open Gear with Cream Oval Buttons
• Endpin: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
  
  

Other

• Strings: D'Addario EXP16 - Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• Included Case: Guild Deluxe Humidified Wood Case
• Instrument Weight: 4.3 lbs