fronobulax
Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
- Joined
- May 3, 2007
- Messages
- 24,795
- Reaction score
- 8,928
- Location
- Central Virginia, USA
- Guild Total
- 5
Well chazmo says
"The only bugaboo is you have to watch out for the guitars (mostly Contemporary Series) that got dumped into the reclamation market at the end of 2008 when Tacoma was getting shuttered. Some of those guitars should have been bandsawed, but weren't."
He is entitled to his opinion.
I have owned Guild guitars since 1966 and from every factory. My two favorites are both from that contemporary series, a CO-1c and a CO-2c. Both went the the FERC process (whatever) and had easily repairable issues when I got them. There are QUALITY instruments and well worth fixing.
That's my opinion.
If any of y'all have one gathering dust and wish to sell it reasonably, send me a message.
MIRC.
In case it is not clear there were several batches of instruments that went through the reclamation process to be liquidated. Some of them had absolutely nothing wrong with them and were liquidated just so that FMIV had no warranty obligations. But others needed some work and there is a judgment call as to whether they got it. As someone who often gets into trouble making sweeping generalizations that are not entirely correct I see two different generalizations being applied to two different situations as if they were the same situation