I'm curious as to why Guild isn't offering a D25 again, especially seeing as it was their biggest seller over the years. I guess the D20 is kinda like the early D25's as it has the 'hog top.
That was then, this is now, and Oxnard's not set up to produce the volume Westerly did, especially with entry-level guitars. (the M20 was simply the"bootstrap" model to get the factory up to speed, just as in Westerly.I'm curious as to why Guild isn't offering a D25 again, especially seeing as it was their biggest seller over the years. I guess the D20 is kinda like the early D25's as it has the 'hog top.
Do either the D20 or the M25 have an arched back? I know not all D25s have the arched back, but to me that is the distinctive attribute of a D25 that makes it stand apart. That's what they need to come out with. I heard they got the equipment from the old plant, so they should be able to do it.
As I said, Oxnard is not Westerly and couldn't make money trying to sell enough US-built D25's.
In the end this is the statement that dooms a low priced, US-built D25 arch back.
When my time is up, I plan to have just one Guild acoustic in my possession. Yup, an arched back Guild D25, from the 70s, late 70s to be exact....but there could have been an alternative universe where a D-25 was made in New Harford and at an entry level price point.
While I tend to agree, an FMIC employee at New Hartford during one of the Let's Meet Guild presentations listed several economic trends that, if they continued, would make it cost effective to bring the MIC Guilds back into the US for production. I won't cite those trends since they were all global economic or political trends. Closing New Hartford and Covid makes things moot but there could have been an alternative universe where a D-25 was made in New Harford and at an entry level price point.