Description
Guild USA Guitars D-240E now in Oman
Built with a solid spruce top, mahogany sides, and arched mahogany back, the full-bodied and powerful tone of this Guild dreadnought provides guitarists with a classic acoustic sound and balanced voicing. Guild’s signature arched back design allows for great volume and projection, long sustain, and a lush, full sound. The D-240E features Guild’s Fishman-designed AP-1 electronics, a pau ferro fingerboard and bridge, bone nut and saddle, mother-of-pearl rosette, period-correct tortoiseshell pickguard, and a matte polyurethane finish. Available in Natural.
SPECIFICATIONS
Body
- Body Shape: D – Dreadnought
- Body Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
- Top Bracing Pattern: Scalloped X
- Soundhole Diameter: 3 7/8″ (98mm)
- Rosette: Mother-Of-Pearl / ABS
- Top Purfling Inlay: Black/White/Black ABS
- Body Sides: Mahogany
- Body Back: Mahogany
- Body Binding: Ivory ABS
Neck
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Scale Length: 25 1/2″ (648mm)
- Neck Shape: C Shape
- Nut Width: 1 11/16″ (43mm)
- Neck Thickness 1st Fret: 20mm
- Neck Thickness 9th Fret: 24mm
- Truss Rod: Dual Action
- Truss Rod Wrench: 4mm Allen Key
- Fingerboard Material: Pau Ferro
- Fingerboard Radius: 16″ (406mm)
- Fingerboard Inlays: 5mm Dots – Mother-Of-Pearl
- Frets Total: 20
Finish
- Color: Natural (NAT)
- Finish: Satin Polyurethane
Hardware
- Bridge Material: Pau Ferro
- Bridge String Spacing: 2 1/4″ (56mm)
- Bridge Pins: Ivory Colored Plastic with Black Dot
- Saddle Material: Compensated Bone
- Hardware Finish / Plating: Nickel
- Nut Material: Bone
- Tuning Machines: Guild GBB1 Butterbean Tuning Machines 16:1 Nickel
- Endpin: Strap Button – Nickel
- Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
Electronics
- Electronics: Guild/Fishman Sonitone GT-1 with Volume and Tone controls
Other
- Strings: D’Addario EXP16 – Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 – .053)
- Included Case: Case Sold Separately
- Upper Bout Width: 11 5/8″ (295mm)
- Lower Bout Width: 15 3/4″ (400mm)
- Body Depth Upper Bout: 3 3/4″ (95mm)
- Body Depth Lower Bout: 4 3/4″ (121mm)
- Body Length: 19 3/4″ (502mm)
- Overall Length: 42″ (1067mm)
