Modern Build with a Vintage Feel
Guild’s new 40 Standard Series introduces our new Vintage Gloss nitro finish. This all-new finish is an ultra-thin nitrocellulose lacquer with both satin and gloss qualities that highlight the natural beauty of the tonewoods.

Featuring a smooth closed-pore texture and a hand sprayed soft, silky coating the Vintage Gloss finish gives each guitar a worn-in vintage feel and tone with a sleek, modern appearance.

Solid Sitka Spruce Top with Solid African Mahogany Back and Sides
Achieve incredible clarity, balance and volume with our jumbo-sized F-40 Standard. With it’s solid Sitka Spruce top with solid African Mahogany back and sides, the F-40 Standard serves up a robust tonal palette that’s perfect for anything from vocal accompaniment to solo work, and many other “unplugged” applications. Its predecessor, the F-48 Navarre, was only produced from 1972 to 1976 and original versions are a rare treasure. Today’s version manifests the same vintage charm with timeless appointments such as a tortoiseshell celluloid pickguard, white ABS binding, and Guild’s peak logo inlay on the headstock.

Scalloped Adirondack Spruce Bracing
Guild adds forward-shifted scalloped Adirondack bracing for power, nuance and responsiveness. Combined with a Sitka Spruce top and African Mahogany back and sides, this bracing provides a punchy tone with smooth top end.

Indian Rosewood Fingerboard and Bridge
An Indian Rosewood fingerboard caps the comfortable C-profile Mahogany neck. Premium materials such as an Indian Rosewood bridge, 20:1 open-gear tuners, and a hand-cut bone nut and saddle finish off the F-40 Standard.

Each F-40 Standard ships with a Guild archtop wood case with built-in Humicase® humidification system.

Specs:

• Body Shape: F - Jumbo
• Body Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
• Top Bracing Pattern: Scalloped X
• Soundhole Diameter: 4" (102mm)
• Rosette: ABS Ring
• Top Purfling Inlay: Black and White ABS
• Body Sides: Solid African Mahogany
• Body Back: Solid African Mahogany
• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Scale Length: 25 5/8" (651mm)
• Neck Shape: C Shape
• Nut Width: 1 11/16" (43mm)
• Neck Thickness: 1st Fret 21mm
• Neck Thickness: 9th Fret 22.5mm
• Truss Rod: Dual Action
• Truss Rod Wrench: 8mm Socket Wrench
• Fingerboard Material: Indian Rosewood
• Fingerboard Radius: 12" (305mm)
• Fingerboard Inlays: 5mm Dots - Pearloid
• Frets Total: 20
• Fret Type: Jescar 43080
• Color: Natural
• Finish: Vintage Gloss Nitrocellulose Lacquer
• Bridge Material: Indian Rosewood
• Bridge String: Spacing 2 1/8" 
• Bridge Pins: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Saddle Material: Compensated Bone
• Nut Material: Bone
• Tuning Machines: Guild Deluxe Vintage Open Gear with Cream Oval Buttons
• Endpin: Ivory Colored Plastic
• Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
• Strings: D'Addario Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• Included: Case Guild Deluxe Humidified Wood Case