Tx, I agree! How long has it been now since everything went to Oxnard?!
Giving them the benefit of the doubt (maybe start up capital is tight, or they're making triple sure every I is dotted and every T crossed, or maybe they're just kinda laid back in good ol' sunny CA) but it feels to me like the roll-out of new guitars is creeping along at a snail's pace.
They've got barely a handful of models in production. (Three? Five?) And while I don't know what their production numbers are, I've never seen an Oxnard Guild in any store or in the hands of anyone playing out. Granted I'm on the other side of the country, but jeez Louise.
Glenn
It has been 3 years since they quit production at New Hartford. I am not knocking Oxnard at all, I was just wondering where they might be in Introducing New models of lines of American Made Guild guitars as they were extremely Creative Builders and designers who really seemed to click at New Hartford. Think about it, In the 5 years they were there, here is a list of some of the USA Made Guild Guitar Lines they designed and built.
Traditional Series.
First Standard series.
Second version of the Standard Series with Cutaways.
Orpheum Custom Shop Series
The Custom Shop in General including the 60th Anni. F30K.
The line of Handmade solid and laminated wood Resonators.
The GSR Acoustic Series of Limited run Guitars.
The GSR Electric Series of Limited run Guitars.
The American Patriarch Series of Electric Guitars.
Remember there were several different models of guitars designed and built in the same "Series". If you really sit back and look they were always designing and trying to build New models with Guild Heritage. For all that they did in the extremely short amount of time they were there, it is just flat out Amazing to me! 3 years is just over half of the production run time for all of New Hartford. I'll bet they would have come up with some really cool stuff in that time frame.
TX