Guild finished their guitars with the necks on making scoring the finish and usually a goodly amount of finish touch-up standard. They are also well known for gluing the cheeks to the sides with way too much glue.

What results with Guild's very thin heel design is that the heels often break or crack in the removal process.

That's what causes the difficulty in neck resets with Guilds but the fun does not stop there. Because of the higher than normal likelihood of cracking or breaking the heel, having to cut the finish back in the filet that forms from finishing with the neck on substantial finish repair is usually the hardest part of the job.

FYI we do neck resets all of the time including a Guild once in a while when we need the business and don't want to refer it to someone that we don't like.... When my personal D-25 was due that I had bought new in 1977 when home from overseas on leave I decided to do myself a favor and sell the thing with full disclosure that it needed a neck reset AND agreement from the buyer that I would not do the reset so that he had to take it elsewhere. When I started building 12 - 13 years ago I started playing my own stuff exclusively as a motivation to improve anyway so the guitar was no longer used by me.

There is experience to be gained resetting these just get some Xanax or Valium from your Doc and know in advance that stuff will happen that you are not happy about.... But, nonetheless it is a conventional dovetail making fitting, removing, resetting, the fret work that should accompany a well done reset and a new nut all valuable experience.

Good luck and hopefully with eyes wide open you will enjoy the experience more so than finding out some of this stuff the hard way.

Good luck Dan it could go fine. What I report to you is the stuff that is well known in the industry and to be considered. It does not mean it can't be done it just is a list of things to be mindful of.

Some shops charge more for Guild resets also because of the above but again this does not mean it can't be done.

My first reset ever was a '74 Guild D-25. I knew nothing of the inherent difficulties and waded right in. Scribed the neck joint, but still had a little chipping. It wasn't too bad and the guitar was my own, so I didn't give it much thought. Everything else went fine. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Chuckling here John because we call this level of work "the whole nine yards"and we charge about $1,200 to do it. Maybe it's time to raise prices.