FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

Guild introduced the F-40 in November 2017 with the F-40E following by August 2018. The F-40 Traditional was late to the party and was introduced in January 2019.The F-40 has always been a 16-inch small jumbo guitar, but this model is based on the 17-inch full size jumbo F-48 Navarre of the mid-1970s. It should rightly be called an F-48 even though that model had straight bracing and a bound fingerboard with block markers. Guild is well known for their nomenclature not making sense so it is what it is. The F-40 Traditional is lightly build with scalloped red spruce bracing which results in a resonant and touch sensitive guitar.

  Body:  Hollow; solid 2-piece Sitka spruce top, solid 2-piece khaya back, and solid  khaya sides; double bound top, single bound back

  Finish:  Antique Burst, nitrocellulose lacquer

  Neck:  3-piece mahogany/walnut/mahogany, set-in; black lacquered headstock overlay with pearloid logo and Chesterfield inlay 

  Fingerboard:  Indian rosewood; mother-of-pearl dot markers

  Number of Frets:  20

  Pickguard:  Tortoise, acetate

  Bridge:  Rosewood with bone saddle

  Nut:  Bone

  Tuners:  Der Jung 426A "Sta Tite" style, nickel

  Neck Width at Nut:  1 11/16 inches

  Body Width at Lower Bout:  17 1/4 inches

  Body Depth:  4 3/4 inches

  Weight:  4.6 lb