I heard that it was more the younger guys that moved from NY to the new plant in NJ after the 1951 strike. The younger guys were getting pissed because they were stuck doing menial jobs while the older "real" luthiers put out the world class guitars. I also heard that the best luthiers worked on the highest end instruments like the Deluxe and Emperor (a point that should be obvious but an article on the Reverb site about collecting vintage archtops erroneously said there was little difference between the models except for the appointments). So I heard it was the older more experienced guys who didn't want to move but stayed behind to start the new company - Guild.
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