Guild M-120 Natural Westerly Acoustic Guitar

Guild M-120 Natural Westerly Acoustic Guitar
Product no: 9000-0063-6673 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Combining the more compact and comfy shape of a concert-bodied guitar with the extra-resonant, extra-tight and extra-powerful sound of solid mahogany, the Guild Westerly M-120 Natural is a great choice for serious players looking for superb sound and playability.

The Guild M-120: Comfortable Strumming and String Picking

As far as the build specifications go, the M-120 features various classic Guild details, including a rosewood fretboard with a comfortably flat 16" radius, and a C-profile mahogany neck with a high-gloss finish, and a 44.5mm (1.75") nut. The result is a degree of playability that supports supple fingerpicking as well as tight chord work, with deluxe details like the pearloid soundhole rosette and 'Chesterfield' headstock inlay polishing off the aesthetics.

The Guild Westerly Collection

Guild have been building high-quality instruments since 1953, and their acoustic guitars hark back to earlier, vintage models. Each of the steel-string guitars in the Westerly series have been built using solid woods before being equipped with a number of refined and more luxurious details. The headstock of every model is then adorned with the traditional pearloid inlay Guild emblem and the top is finished with a faux-tortoiseshell pickguard. The Westerly series offers expensive acoustic sound at a surprisingly affordable price.

Specifications

Product features

Sustainable product	not specified
Electro-acoustic	no
Acoustic guitar size	compact
For playing style	fingerpicking
Acoustic sound	warm with less bass
Body type	000 / 0M / orchestra / auditorium
Body construction	all solid
Number of strings	6
Colour	wood/natural
Cutaway	no
Number of frets	20
Left-handed	no
Wood type (soundboard)	mahogany
Wood type (sides)	mahogany
Wood type (back)	mahogany
Fretboard wood	rosewood
Includes cover	no
Includes case	no

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging)	5,0 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	113,0 x 48,0 x 22,5 cm

Product specifications

acoustic guitar
finish: Natural
body shape: Concert
body sides: solid African mahogany
body back: solid African mahogany
top: solid African mahogany
finish: high-gloss polyurethane
neck: mahogany
neck profile: C
scale length: 24.75" (628mm)
truss rod: dual action
fretboard: Indian rosewood
fretboard radius: 16" (406mm)
position markers: pearloid dots
number of frets: 20
machine heads: Guild vintage-style open-gear
hardware: nickel-plated
nut: 44.5mm (1.75"), bone
bridge: rosewood, bone saddle
bridge pins: ivory coloured with black dots
pickguard: synthetic tortoiseshell
strings: D'Addario EXP16 Coated Phosphor Bronze (.012 - .053)
special features: mother-of-pearl sound hole rosette and mother-of-pearl 'Chesterfield' emblem inlay on the headstock

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Nice guitar February 17, 2023

Wrote the following about Guild M-120 Natural Westerly Acoustic Guitar

I've had this guitar about 9 months now,having purchased it initially as a travel guitar.

I didn't bond with it immediately, it took my ears some time to adjust to the mahogany vs my usual cedar/rosewood.

There were a couple of issues out the box, the action was high towards the sound hole, and the strings were grabbing at the nut - resulting in some tuning issues (and some good twanging noises). Both resolved with a setup.

I tried a few different sets of strings and I have to say that the martin monel nickel strings absolutely shine on this. With the setup and strings it's actually a really enjoyable guitar to play and I'm starting to enjoy the tone more too.