jazzman said:
At Willie's American Guitars, in St. Paul, Minnesota I just received some of the first guitars from the new factory yesterday. However, they weren't from New Hartford. No we don't sell the GAD Chinese series.....Does anyone know what I'm talking about???
ENSENADA Mexico! Some of you may have seen the DV-6 and the DV-4 from the last year. It was a great Tacoma made, reasonably priced acoustic. Guild discontinued them when Tacoma closed, and suddenly a handful arrived yesterday at the store.
I looked at the label and it said "DV-6(MX)"...Hmmm the box also read "Guild. Made in Mexico".
To me that's right up there with some of the low priced martins that come in and the box says "Martin. America's guitar. Made in Mexico"
SO I pulled one out of the box. The only visual difference is that they didn't stain the mahogany neck, so you have a super light colored neck on a dark body. Other than that it looks identical to the tacoma made version.
The playability and sound were decent. I'm curious to know if they cost less than the tacoma made variety. My guess is that they don't. The guitar isn't bad, and I have nothing against Mexico...but c'mon!!!!!
Jazz, we started hearing about the Ensenada transition very recently. Does the label or anything else on the guitar say "Made in Mexico" or anything like that? So, if it's just "(MX)" then we'll have to get used to that as the distinction. I'm glad the box, at least, is clear about the origin, however, most folks won't see that box.
I hope these guitars are up to snuff compared with their predecessors. I think Fender has had production facilities in Mexico for a while, so I hope this is an experienced set of factory workers... If you have a chance to snap some pictures, that'd be awesome.
I too am curious about the cost, but are you referring to the manufacturing cost or the sales cost? Let us know what you discover.
Maybe we need another thread for Ensenada Guilds... Unfortunately, Hans, this is 4 syllables.
