Serial Number Question

LFOTremolo

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Hello all--I have a DV 52 Westerly-made guitar which was made in 2000 (June 24 2000 is the neck block stamp). The Guild dating charts I have found only go up to 1999--are there no records from '99-2001? I am trying to see how close to the last DV 52 produced at Wersterly my guitar happens to be... Thanks.

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Hello all--I have a DV 52 Westerly-made guitar which was made in 2000 (June 24 2000 is the neck block stamp). The Guild dating charts I have found only go up to 1999--are there no records from '99-2001? I am trying to see how close to the last DV 52 produced at Wersterly my guitar happens to be... Thanks.

Ray

Hans will stop by at some point and help ya out unless one the others has info .
Just grab a coffee they'll be about . 😁
 

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Yes, that’s the Bermuda Triangle of Guild serial numbers. Only Hans knows the truth. (It is rumored that only he knows what happened to Flight 19, too.)
 

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Actually the published S/N list only goes to 1997, not 1999. And those last years until 1997 are having many errors.
Westerly officially closed December, 28 of 2001. A DV-52 with AD523710 was confirmed by Hans as year 2000, just as reference. And AD523851 was made in 2001. There is also a AD523987 known.
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So that means there would be at least 360 serial numbers after your year 2000 one. But I don't know what the final S/N was in 2001.
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Westerly officially closed December, 28 of 2001. A DV-52 with AD523710 was confirmed by Hans as year 2000, just as reference. And AD523851 was made in 2001. There is also a AD523987 known.
Ralf

Amazing.
OK, fess up.
You're the guy who actually writes up all of Hans's 3x5 index cards, aren'tcha?
:glee:
 
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