Need Help Finding Serial Numbers
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Guitar was made in Westerly, RI so was made before the move to Fender in Corona, Ca. Cordoba has answered in on this and told me they think it may be a 2000 made in Westerly right before the move to Fender in Corona, Ca?? If so, this would be definitely be one of the LAST made in Westerly, RI.........
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GGJaguar
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Welcome to LTG! Your guitar was made sometime around the 1998-99 time period. The serial numbers for Westerly-made D-55s go quite a bit higher than yours. Post some photos. We love pix!
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Welcome aboard, @Guildme
1. GAD is our site owner's username, not a comment on the GAD acoustics of recent memory. Yup, your guitar is definitely not a Guild GAD.
2. The published serial number lists are wrong or incomplete for different eras. We do try to point people in the right direction to get answers for specific cases where guitars do not fit in the covered ranges. In your case, your D-55 was built as GGJaguar suggested.
3. Most of the members here do not have access to detailed information about guitars that extend beyond the published lists, but fronobulax is mentioning user Hans Moust as a published authority who has records available to him. You can contact him here, but I would not expect him to give you generic information; i.e., specific guitars will get specific answers if possible.
4. If you are interested, Hans' book (which we call the bible, see our FAQ threads) is a fantastic history of Guild Guitars but only covers up to 1977. Details about newer guitars are not available
Again, welcome aboard! I hope that helps answer your questions.
1. GAD is our site owner's username, not a comment on the GAD acoustics of recent memory. Yup, your guitar is definitely not a Guild GAD.
2. The published serial number lists are wrong or incomplete for different eras. We do try to point people in the right direction to get answers for specific cases where guitars do not fit in the covered ranges. In your case, your D-55 was built as GGJaguar suggested.
3. Most of the members here do not have access to detailed information about guitars that extend beyond the published lists, but fronobulax is mentioning user Hans Moust as a published authority who has records available to him. You can contact him here, but I would not expect him to give you generic information; i.e., specific guitars will get specific answers if possible.
4. If you are interested, Hans' book (which we call the bible, see our FAQ threads) is a fantastic history of Guild Guitars but only covers up to 1977. Details about newer guitars are not available
Again, welcome aboard! I hope that helps answer your questions.
SFIV1967
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Not at all one of the last....
According to Hans AD550691 was the last number for a D-55 from 1997. They made several thousand (!!!) D-55s in Westerly after that one.
AD 551035 and AD551039 were from end of 1998.
AD 551532 for instance was completed in year 2000, AD 551800 was completed in July 2000 according to Hans, AD552029 was also year 2000... and Westerly produced well into year 2001...
So your AD 551113 is from year 1999 as far as I can see.
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Yes, mine is AD552029, and Hans confirmed that it was a 2000.
adorshki
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HI Guildme, welcome!
Fender actually purchased Guild in November of '95 so last 5 years of Westerly were actually under Fender ownership.
Fender moved 'em to Corona during '01 while ramping down Westerly, which was shipping right up through November of '01, but first Corona production year was '02.
For whatever reason the available online s/n records top out at '96 or in some cases '97, I suspect they were misplaced or "stored" during the relocation to Corona. In fact they wound up at Fender's corporate headquarters in Scottsdale AZ where it took some doing to get somebody to go look for info on your guitar. I suspect they just shrugged and never "organized" the records to publish. There's no onlie source for Corona numbers either, but in Tacoma at least they started using a system with a built-in date decoding system.