Guild F-40 Standard

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.

Featuring a smooth closed-pore texture and a hand sprayed soft, silky coating the Vintage Gloss finish gives each guitar a worn-in vintage feel and tone with a sleek, modern appearance.

Achieve incredible clarity, balance and volume with our jumbo-sized F-40 Standard. With it’s solid Sitka Spruce top with solid African Mahogany back and sides, the F-40 Standard serves up a robust tonal palette that’s perfect for anything from vocal accompaniment to solo work, and many other “unplugged” applications. Its predecessor, the F-48 Navarre, was only produced from 1972 to 1976 and original versions are a rare treasure. Today’s version manifests the same 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 F-40 Standard.

• Body Shape:Jumbo 
• Back & Sides Wood:African Mahogany 
• Top Wood:Sitka Spruce 
• Top Finish:Gloss Nitrocellulose 
• Color:Pacific Sunset Burst 
• Body Bracing:Scalloped X 
• Binding:White ABS 
• Neck Wood:Mahogany 
• Neck Shape:C Shape 
• Radius:12" 
• Fingerboard Material:Indian Rosewood 
• Fingerboard Inlay:Pearloid 5mm Dots 
• Number of Frets:20, Jescar 43080 
• Scale Length:25.625" 
• Nut/Saddle Material:Bone/Compensated Bone 
• Bridge Material:Indian Rosewood 
• Tuning Machines:Guild Deluxe Vintage Open Gear 
• Strings:D'Addario EXP16 Phosphor Bronze, .012-.053 
• Case/Gig Bag:Hardshell Case