FACTOIDS & TRIVIA

After a 4 year hiatus, Guild, now owned by Cordoba Music Group, reintroduced the F-412 and renamed it the F-512 Maple. I refuse to call it that and will always refer to it as the F-412, so screw you Cordoba Music Group! The model basically followed the design recipe that was used when the F-412 was built in the New Hartford facility. However, there is still confusion about the sides of body being solid or laminated maple. A quick call to the fine folks in Oxnard confirmed that his model is currently made with laminated sides. Features included a lower profile neck with a single dual-acting truss rod reinforced with dual carbon fiber rods, red spruce bracing, and Gotoh "Sta-Tite" tuners which created a lighter weight guitar compared to its predecessors. In addition, the example shown here is fitted with a factory optional LR Baggs Anthem pickup system.

 Body:  Hollow; solid 2-piece Sitka spruce top, laminated arched flame maple back and laminated flame maple sides; 5-ply bound top and back

 Finish:  Natural, nitrocellulose

 Neck:  3-piece mahogany/walnut/mahogany, set-in; triple bound ebony headstock overlay with pearloid logo and G-shield inlay

 Fingerboard:  Ebony, single bound; mother-of-pearl block markers with abalone inserts

 Number of Frets:  20

 Pickguard:  Tortoise

 Bridge:  Indian rosewood with bone saddle

 Nut:  Bone

 Tuners:  Gotoh SE701, gold

 Pickups:  LR Baggs Anthem

 Controls:  Volume, Blend

 Scale Length:  25 5/8 inches

 Neck Width at Nut:  1 7/8 inches

 Body Width at Lower Bout:  17 1/4 inches

 Body Depth:  4 3/4 inches

 Weight:  5.4 lb