OK, OK, so maybe I don't have the last Hoboken flat top, but there's a chance I have the last label.
LOVE it.
I can actually relate because when I bought my F65ce it had a tag on it that said "Last of The Westerlys". (And yes at the time I thought that might enhance future value although I never buy a guitar for that purpose. It was just a rationalization to help justify the purchase)
In my naievete at the time, I took it literally.
It took a couple of years and an email to Fender to figure out they meant "The Last Westerly
in Our Store".
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I do know now that I have the next-to-the-last F65ce they (and Hans) has a record of, and that it was shipped in December of '01, so it's from pretty damn close to the end, at least.
I found out later for example, after being here for a while, that the very last guitar built in Westerly was an Artist Award completed in August '01 "IIRC", and that although the doors were "officially" closed and production had been shut down, they were obviously still shipping finished inventory all the way into December of '01.
Corona had already begun building electrics in '01 as well, so there may be parallels there to the Hoboken-Westerly transition.
The main difference appears to be that they didn't use leftover Westerly labels in Corona.
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