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Guild asked on Facebook today if anyone would be interested in an S300 or B301 reissue.
Yeah, my gut reaction is that they'll muck it up. Still, it's not a terribly complicated concept.
The problem is the immense quality on those guitars that just won't be replicated by Korea. My biggest beef will be that they won't use or replicate the Mueller bridge, and I bet they'll put cheap tuners and a rosewood board on it. You know, "inspired by" the S300.
It's also probably one of my favorite guitars of all time so I'll be tough to please.
That's not correct. They have stated from the very beginning (official interviews of the CEO) until just last weekend (on Facebook and Instagram) that they are interested to produce US made electric guitars in Oxnard but that they first concentrate to get the factory up and running by introducing slowly model after model. We have discussed such statements many times in the past here. I guess the next model we will see at NAMM 2020 is probably a 16" lower bout acoustic model since this size is not yet available from Oxnard. So once they have most typical acoustic models again available I am sure they start Archtops or solid body models again in Oxnard. Maybe in a GSR model type to manage the volume initially.It's too bad Guild isn't interested in making electrics there.
Just to back it up from the official side:Thank you, Ralf!
But he talks from his personal experience marketing/selling them for Guild back in the day, so from his point of view the model was a failure. Can't blame him for his thoughts.DrumBob's distain for the S300 shape is well known.
But he talks from his personal experience marketing/selling them for Guild back in the day, so from his point of view the model was a failure. Can't blame him for his thoughts.
Ralf
Understood, and if I went through what he did I'd likely feel the same.
I freaking loved mine and everyone commented on it all through the '80s when I played it live.
Yeah and actually Drumbob said even he thought it was ugly, and no slam intended on him but that feeling itself may have also colored how his potential customers responded to the pitch.