Guild D-150CE Natural Westerly Electro-Acoustic Steel-String

Guild D-150CE Natural Westerly Electro-Acoustic Steel-String Guitar
Product no: 9000-0017-8159 Bax Music Warranty: This product comes with a 3-year warranty.

General

Looking at the specifications, this dreadnought-shaped electro-acoustic looks fairly standard: a solid spruce top, rosewood back and sides and a mahogany neck. However, this is an all-solid acoustic guitar and, while the details have been kept simple, the sound and finish are anything but. The Guild D-150CE has a warm and sustain-rich sound with a satisfying heavy bottom-end supported by bright accents while the relatively flat 16-inch radius of the rosewood fretboard and the C-profile neck have a brilliantly tight and lush playing feel.

The Guild D-150CE: Clarity and Comfort

Amplified by the Fishman Soundhole Pickup system, the acoustic foundation sound of the D-150CE is dutifully registered by a Sonicore pickup and processed by a Sonitone preamplifier with volume an tone controls. The result is a faithful and clear delivery of the natural warmth of the instrument. Blend this with the irresistible playing comfort and subtle design details and it results in a joy of a guitar whether writing, recording or performing.

The Guild Westerly Collection

Guild have been building high-quality instruments since 1953 and their acoustic guitars still echo some of the details of their earlier, vintage models. Each guitar included in the Westerly Series features a solid wood construction and comes supported by a number of subtle yet luxurious details. The headstock is always found adorned with the iconic Guild inlay and Chesterfield emblem and the body is always completed by a classic faux-tortoiseshell pickguard. The Westerly Series is a range of sumptuous acoustic guitars focussed on sound and build quality.

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.Please note: The guitar without cutaway seen in the images is a different model from the same series. As such, the actual guitar may look slightly different from the one in the images.

Specifications

Product features

Number of frets	20
Number of strings	6
Body construction	all solid
Cutaway	yes
Sustainable product	not specified
Electro-acoustic	yes
Pickup type	contact piëzo
Acoustic guitar size	mid
Wood type (back)	rosewood
Fretboard wood	rosewood
Wood type (soundboard)	spruce
Wood type (sides)	rosewood
For playing style	plectrum-based styles
Includes cover	no
Includes case	no
Built-in electronics	tone control, preamplifier
Acoustic sound	rich and deep
Colour	wood/natural
Left-handed	no
Body type	dreadnought

Weight and dimensions including packaging

Weight (incl. packaging)	7,2 kg
Dimensions (incl. packaging)	122,0 x 47,0 x 22,0 cm

Product specifications

Electro-Acoustic Steel-String Guitar
colour: natural
shape: dreadnought with cutaway
body sides: solid Indian rosewood
body back: solid Indian rosewood
top: solid Sitka spruce
finish: polyurethane, natural gloss
neck: mahogany
neck profile: C
scale length: 25.5 inch (648 mm)
truss rod: dual action
fretboard: Indian rosewood
fretboard radius: 16 inch (406 mm)
position markers: pearloid dots
number of frets: 20
machine heads: Guild, sealed self-lubricating
hardware: nickel-plated
string nut: 44.5 mm (1.75 inch), bone
bridge: rosewood, bone saddle
bridge pins: ivory coloured with black dots
pickguard: synthetic tortoiseshell
electronics: active Fishman Sonitone Soundhole Pickup system with volume and tone controls
strings: D'Addario EXP16 Coated Phosphor Bronze (.012 - .053)
details: mother-of-pearl rosette, mother-of-peal 'Chesterfield' emblem on headstock, black body binding (black ABS), and black/white purfling binding the top.

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Mojo March 17, 2025

Wrote the following about Guild D-150CE Natural Westerly Electro-Acoustic Steel-String Guitar

Colis reçu rapidement et très bien protégé.
Je cherchais une guitare de qualité, toute massive pour me faire un peu plaisir. Je joue depuis des années sur des grattes entrée / moyenne gamme.
Là on est clairement un cran au dessus, rapport qualité prix vraiment top pour moins de 1000e.
y’a qu’à regarder le prix chez Taylor, Martin ou Gibson pour une guitare dans la même configuration ( dos et eclisse en palissandre, table épicéa Sitka, touche et chevalet ébène, sillet en os …) que du top matos, certe assemblée en chine mais franchement bien fini et surtout elle sonne vraiment nickel !!!
Je n’ai pas essayé de D55 ou autre chez Guild a 4 ou 5 k mais franchement je pense pas que ça soit 4 ou 5 fois mieux ( je n’ai d’ailleurs pas trouvé de comparatif, ils ont peut-être peur qu’elle soit à la hauteur sonore d’une américaine 😅). J’ai juste profité du changement du jeu de corde par des ernies ball paradigm en 10/50 pour plus de souplesse et surtout beaucoup moins de fatigue quand je joue longtemps ( c’est vraiment un choix personnel mais c’est flagrant la différence ) les cordes d’origine ne frisait pas et sonnait très bien… j’en ai profité pour adoucir les rebords de frettes côté aigu (comme je fais toujours) c’est aussi bien que la plupart des autres guitares mais ça prend pas longtemps et franchement quel confort sur les slides en 1ere corde. Sinon rien a redire, le son est brillant, très bonnes basses, les notes sont bien marquées, des aigus scintillant, bref ce que je recherchais, aucun regret !

john naylor December 9, 2023

Wrote the following about Guild D-150CE Natural Westerly Electro-Acoustic Steel-String Guitar

i bought this guitar 3months ago Bstock, which was a bit of a worry, but i needn't it was unplayed and no playing marks and am very pleased with it, double boxed, it has a very nice loud sound very balanced & even, not quite as sharp as my taylor, not as warm and gentle as my epi EJ200 sce, i do use it a lot, 3 small marks in the finish, maybe thats why it is Bstock?, but nothing to worry about & i mean small marks, i have recently set it up as you usually have to, and exchanged the strings from d'addario 12s to elixir 12s, (nothing wrong with dadario just needed a change aftre set up) it has a very thin poly finish, a big plus, rosewood slightly darker than most, just an observation though. not a complaint,
i would without hesitation recomend BAX and this guiar, hope this helps sombody a little,

Paul Kok May 31, 2022

Wrote the following about Guild D-150CE Natural Westerly Electro-Acoustic Steel-String Guitar

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