Maritime SWS dread on Reverb.com

I'm with TonyKgull, I have to say. It looks suspicious to me, I'm afraid. The seller claims that the guitar has built-in electronics, but the heel strap button (if you enlarge the pic) clearly shows a screw in the button and there no other jack on the lower bout for an instrument cable, nor do I see any evidence of any electronics on the upper bout, either. A new one (without electronics) on Sweetwater is $699 -- though it doesn't come with a case, either, so you'd be saving $200. With electronics (Q1 system) it would run $799 new -- which would make that a pretty nice deal and a $300 savings, but I sure don't see this has that, despite what the ad claims.

I own mostly all older guitars with some miles on them.  I have never found a company that will extend their guarantee past the original owner. I certainly wouldn't expect it. 

I agree with all of that except the last sentence.  lol.  I guess I'm a skeptic on that one.  Don't get me wrong, I love Godin, but I don't think that they think too many people will be "lifetime owners" and they are banking on that.  The few original owners that keep them for that long, and can prove it, won't be many and therefore won't cost them a lot.

When it comes to companies that have true "faith" in a design, I think of Taylor.  That neck of theirs is designed to be an easy fix or adjustment no matter how far down the road or who owns the guitar.  Not saying Taylor is the best or anything, but man, that design of theirs for the neck is amazing for so many reasons; for the company and for the guitar owners.

Even Cole Clark, who everybody knows I love so much, is another example of what I'm talking about regarding Godin.  Lifetime guarantee for the neck, but only for the original owner.  If you're not the original owner, good luck resetting a Cole Clark neck if it ever needs it because the whole guitar is built around the neck.  You couldn't reset the neck if you wanted to without taking the whole darn thing apart!  lol. (to be fair, they say the neck should never need a reset......but again......I'm skeptical.  LOL!    ....not saying it's not possible or even likely though.   Ok......I'm done babbling now.      )

I was thinking that too, but then I thought it could have the Fishman Sonitone in there, but even if it had that, there's still no visual evidence of it cuz there's not even a jack plug and I can't see anything in the inside edge of the sound hole.  So ya, I'd bet a good wager there's no pick up.