That’s why you have outlandishly expensive aristocrats from 2013, I think at NAMM they were suggested at $4,000, and now the people who bought them cannot sell them for anything above $2k since there are so many high quality Korean aristocrats that came out shortly after the acquisition.
To be honest, the three American Patriarch models were probably the best of the best ever built by Guild. I was at NAMM 2013 when they were introduced. Unfortunatelly all the pictures in my post are lost and I can't edit the post or the links in it anymore as the message had more than 1,000 characters and the new forum software only allows 1,000 characters as maximum...
NAMM 2013: New Custom Shop American Patriarch™ Series In celebration of Guild’s 60th Anniversary, the iconic American company has officially opened the GUILD® CUSTOM SHOP in New Hartford, Connecticut. The GUILD® CUSTOM SHOP in New Hartford not only introduced a whole new series of acoustic...
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So yes, the MSRP were high, but nobody would complain about a Custom Shop Gibson or Fender at such prices. And those were list proces not sales prices.
But there were only so few of them built before New Hartford was shut, so they are highly sougth after and a statement that "
the people who bought them cannot sell them for anything above $2k since there are so many high quality Korean aristocrats..." is simply not true. I'd love to buy an AP M-75 for only $2,000!
You can't compare the AP and NS models at all. I have never seen an American Patriarch M-75 for many days anywhere when offered, they sold always quickly I think to remember. And you rarely see them offered at all as people who bought them don't even think selling them, they are heirloom instruments to me.
Ralf
