Guild's prized Artist Award model presents acoustic versatility in a class all its own. It features positively exquisite styling, with a beautiful resonant carved spruce top, carved flame maple back, rock-solid five-piece neck and the coveted DeArmond® model 1100 floating pickup, which gives the instrument enormous acoustic/electric versatility. Other premium features of this extraordinary guitar include elegant neck and body binding, two-tone mother-of-pearl/abalone block inlays on the smooth ebony fingerboard, a compensated ebony bridge and much more. The welcome return of a true Guild classic.

MPN: 3829100837
UPC: 885978320769

• Model Name: Artist Award™
  
• Series: American Patriarch™ Series
  
• Color / Part #: Artist Award™, Antique Burst, with Case 382-9100-837
  
• Body Material: Carved Spruce Top with Carved Solid Flame Maple Back and Laminated Figured Maple Sides
  
• Body Shape: Guild® Artist Award
  
• Body Back: Carved Solid Flame Maple
  
• Body Sides: Laminated Flame Maple
  
• Body Top: Carved Solid Spruce
  
• Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  
• Bracing: Parallel Tone Bars
  
• Purfling: Black/Ivory White
  
• F Holes Sound Holes: Multiple Bound Fholes
  
• Body Depth: 3.125" (80 mm)
  
• Body Length: 21" (533 mm)
  
• Body Width Lower Bout: 17" (432 mm)
  
• Body Binding: Ivory White with Multiple Black/White Purfling
  
• Neck Shape: Vintage Soft "U"
  
• Number of Frets: 20
  
• Fret Size: Vintage-Style
  
• Position Inlays: Vintage Two-Tone Mother-
• Of-Pearl/Abalone Block
  
• Fingerboard Radius: 10" (254 mm)
  
• Head Stock Binding: Ivory White with Multiple Black/White Purfling
  
• Fretboard: Ebony
  
• Neck Material: 5-Piece Maple/Walnut/Maple/Walnut/Maple
  
• Neck Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
  
• Nut Width: 1.627" (41.32 mm)
  
• Scale Length: 24.75" (628 mm)
  
• Headstock: Vintage 3x3
  
• Neck Binding: Ivory White with Multiple Black/White Purfling
  
• Truss Rods: Dual-Action Head Adjust
  
• Pickup Configuration: S
  
• Neck Pickup: DeArmond® 1100 "Rhythm Chief" Floating Archtop
  
• Controls: Master Volume
  
• Hardware Finish: Gold-Plated
  
• Bridge: Compensated Ebony with Ebony Base
  
• Tuning Machines: Grover® Imperial™
  
• String Nut: Bone
  
• Pickguard: 5-Ply B/W/B/W/B
  
• Truss Rod Wrench: Yes
  
• Strings: D'Addario® ECG25 Chromes Flat Wound, Light, (.012-.052 Gauges)
  
• Unique Features: Single Cutaway Hollow Body; Engraved Guild® "Harp" Tailpiece; Multiple Headstock Inlays
  
• Control Knobs: Clear Amber Volume (Mounted to Pickguard)