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There are no annotations anywhere in the instrument that I can access. Thanks for the suggestion. Like one experiences on the internet, there is more "expertise" than documentation of where information originated. The consensus among articles and postings published about Guild is that the...

Somehow we seem to not be communicating. I only know the year. You're right about Waverly vs Westerly. I wasshopping for tuners for my old Tacoma DM-9 and ordered Gotoh since I would have had to drill with Waverly and had to order oversized press fit bushings. Hopefully "venetated" doesn't...

I was focused on Corona Guilds because I have one. The story of Guild involves periodic new beginnings with workers laid off and different approaches to retaining records based on ownership at the time. I am sure the craftsmen deserved better as well as the brand. This is why I am excited about...

Just to clear up any confusion, I wasn't claiming Hans didn't get back to me, just that a precise date was not available.

My understanding is that Fender destroyed any records so the manufacturing date can be only roughly derived since it was not embedded in the serial number. Fender also passed on a lot of seconds to a vendor that caused a lot of folks to believe all Corona Guilds were substandard. Since Guild was...

I have read that Corona used SNs without dates embedded. The guitars were denoted for the location (Corona), the model and then numbered sequentially. So mine is 650, whereas I have only seen a sequential number of 874 at the highest. My best guess is a 2003-2004 build, probably 2003. As a...