Year of my new guild D40 traditional?

Joined
Nov 29, 2020
Messages
7
Reaction score
10
Guild Total
1
Hi,
First of all hello everybody and thanks for the other times you have helped me. I have just bought a Guild D40 traditional and dont know what year it was made. The serial number is C170634.
Could you please help me?
Many thanks in advance.
Iván
 

fronobulax

Bassist, GAD and the Hot Mess Mods
Joined
May 3, 2007
Messages
24,708
Reaction score
8,836
Location
Central Virginia, USA
Guild Total
5
that's 2017

I was going to ask how you knew than but then I answered my own question. Quoted for other folks with lousy memories.

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but Oxnard serial numbers don't use the Julian date encoded into the serial number as done in Tacoma and New Hartford. Instead, it appears to be YYxxxx where YY deontes the year and xxxx is simply a running total of guitars produced. So, C171484 is a guitar made in 2017 and is the 1484th guitar made in Oxnard. The highest s/n I've seen is C205879 meaning that there have been at least 5879 guitars made in Oxnard since production began there in 2016.

Oxnard Serialization.jpg
 
Top