Chazmo said:
Yeah, Al, it's just plain misleading. You can't really point to a time when US Guilds were not being built unless there was actually such a period during the transition from Westerly to Corona (I'm not aware of that, but I don't know for sure).
Thanks Chaz. I KNOW Corona was being tooled, and I'm pretty sure was actually "up and running" before Westerly shipped its last guitar. (My F65ce was shipped in Dec. '01, one of the last shipments but probably not THE last shipment. And not to be confused with the last guitar BUILT in Westerly, an AA owned by a member here and threaded before. Just for historical background)
Are you sure about the overlap of Tacoma and New Hartford, in terms of instruments actually being built, as opposed to the fact that there was always A US factory in existence although production might have seen temporary halts?
I thought I had gathered from reading here that Tacoma was already liquidating guitars before New Hartford was actually building any.