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Old 10-06-2008, 07:17 AM
Chazmo Chazmo is offline
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Originally Posted by Andromeda View Post
Thanks, that's too bad. Tacoma built a very good guitar. I used to own a JM9.

I hope they don't let Guild die!!!!

Any idea when the New Hartford Guilds will be coming to the dealers?
Well, 'dromeda, that's what a lot of us are worried about.

It was at the end of August that I got a letter from the the Kaman VP indicating that they weren't ready for a factory tour yet (that's what I was asking for) but that they were making progress getting people trained and set up. It was optimisitic and upbeat, but no timetable was given.

If I hear anything about production, I'll post up. To my knowledge no Guilds have yet been produced in New Hartford. And, there is/was still some production of Guilds coming from Tacoma, though I can't imagine it's much at this point.

There was also a nasty rumor about some of the USA-made Guilds moving production to Mexico. A couple of people confirmed this rumor and I got no response back when I sent email to the Kaman VP about it, so I suspect it's true.
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