Huh?? Did we miss something

[MLBob]

This was the description of a Guild acoustic on Reverb:

"This is a new Guild AD-30 from Guild's New plant in Ensenada Mexico. The Cool thing about this guitar is that it is serial # 001, the first guitar out of he plant. Ren Ferguson left Gibson and is now at Guild and the Arcos Guild Guitars are really good. Really nice fretwork, bone nut and saddle, solid top, great playability and sound. Nice guild foam case w/really useable straps. This guitar is not a compromise for a pro player. They all seem really good, this was a NAMM guitar and being the first, P'raps some special care was taken with it? $749 list, $549. big online retail, This one's good."

Link: https://reverb.com/item/163617-guild-arcos-ad-30-nat-serial-001-very-nice-guitar-price-drop

Seems like a little "license" and imagination went into this one ;-)

 

[Synchro]

This was the description of a Guild acoustic on Reverb:

"This is a new Guild AD-30 from Guild's New plant in Ensenada Mexico. The Cool thing about this guitar is that it is serial # 001, the first guitar out of he plant. Ren Ferguson left Gibson and is now at Guild and the Arcos Guild Guitars are really good. Really nice fretwork, bone nut and saddle, solid top, great playability and sound. Nice guild foam case w/really useable straps. This guitar is not a compromise for a pro player. They all seem really good, this was a NAMM guitar and being the first, P'raps some special care was taken with it? $749 list, $549. big online retail, This one's good."

Link: https://reverb.com/item/163617-guild-arcos-ad-30-nat-serial-001-very-nice-guitar-price-drop

Seems like a little "license" and imagination went into this one ;-)

I'd say.

 

[Christopher Cozad]

I believe the plant in Ensenada has been running for a quarter century or more under FMIC's watchful care.

But somebody definitely missed the TRC being upside down:

 

[SFIV1967]

MLBob: The Guild Arcos AD-3 (not AD-30...) is a model in the Guild Arcos line.
"Arcos" is Spanish for "arches" (since made at FMIC/Guild in Ensenada/Mexico) and is referring to the arched back of the Arcos series.
The Guild Arcos series was first introduced at NAMM 2012: http://www.guildguitars.com/news/guild- ... acoustics/

Just check the series out: http://www.guildguitars.com/instruments/?gtype=acoustics&series=Arcos+Series

As said, the Ensenada factory is a FMIC owned factory and is 27 years old (so definitely not a "new" factory). Ensenada started making Guild guitars either 2008 or 2009 with the DV-4 and DV-6 models after Tacoma was shut down in 2008 I believe.
To see some pictures of Guild production in Ensenada from 2012 check out some of the 37 pictures here: http://www.guitarworld.com/fender-mexico-turns-25-factory-photo-tour

We don't know if Guild production will continue in Ensenada or not as FMIC sold the Guild brand to CMG (Cordoba Music Group) back in May (pending closure or the transaction).
I would expect that the Arcos line would be discontinued.

EDIT: The "story" in that Reverb add about "the first guitar out of this new plant" is all totally wrong. The last "001" does not mean "the first guitar ever". Serial numbers in Ensenada work differently, I don't know exactly what MAP stands for other than M seems to be Mexico. The "13" is the year of manufacture and the "02001" behind seems to be 5 sequential numbers (no month coded in as far as I guess), so that could be the 2001'st Arcos guitar built maybe.
And as you see on the wrongly mounted truss rod cover, it can't be a "new" guitar as obviously somebody already adjusted the truss rod...

Ralf

 

[MLBob]

Seems like a little "license" and imagination went into this one ;-)

I was being sarcastic about how the guitar was represented. Guess my manually done smiley was missed.:laughing:

 

[SFIV1967]

I was being sarcastic about how the guitar was represented. Guess my manually done smiley was missed.:laughing:

Oh! Now I got it! Sorry!
Ralf

 

[fronobulax]

I was being sarcastic about how the guitar was represented. Guess my manually done smiley was missed.:laughing:

Sarcasm and irony do not come across well on the internet in general and on LTG in particular. Trust me. In fact I find I have less problems by assuming everything at face value and finding out I treated sarcasm seriously than if I respond to something that I think was supposed to be sarcastic and it wasn't. And then there are the trolls who will claim something was supposed to be sarcastic so they don't have to accept responsibility for what they posted....

 

[SFIV1967]

Sarcasm and irony do not come across well on the internet in general and on LTG in particular.

It also has to do with the fact that we are an international forum with lots of different languages spoken, so English is not everybody's first language.
Ralf

 

[adorshki]

.... so English is not everybody's first language.
Ralf

Here in the US we're doing our darnedest to rectify that problem.
Just imagine what having a common language would do to improve world peace.

And then there are the trolls who will claim something was supposed to be sarcastic so they don't have to accept responsibility for what they posted....

The difference between a troll and a postbot is that a postbot unswervingly stands by his sarcasm, even at the risk of creating bonfire threads.
Got a match?
:biggrin-new:

 

[Los Angeles]

Ensenada's a fun place to visit (if you like fish tacos and surfing)