I don't know if any of you are Acoustic Guitar Forumites...
But over on the AGF a thread in the General Guitar Discussion Section just popped up.
Ren did not leave from Cordoba/Guild and go back to Montana to retire...at least not for long apparently! He has gone to China to help lead the set up a brand new state of the art Pac Rim guitar factory with Shadow Electronics...who make guitar pickups and a line of electric and some limited acoustic guitars, sold mostly overseas. So Ren is over there helping to create a new SOOA factory to build primarily, I believe, acoustics.
Sooooooo...I now wonder to myself...why did Ren REALLY leave Cordoba/Guild???...cuz it sure wasn't really to flat out retire back to Bozeman, or parts thereby, and tinker with guitars, mandolins, and custom gun stocks/vintage repro firearms.
Check the thread out over on the AGF...there is a brief video too where Ren mentions that they will not be using rosewood in their guitars for the immediate future because of import/export rules,regs, and restrictions.
Do I remember properly from the thread here on Ren leaving Cordoba/Guild, that Ren left based at least a little bit on, and in some parts his frustrations with, being away from Montana and also with the slog of dealing with Cali rules, regs, and restrictions in setting up the new Guild factory?
China is a lot further away from the Big Sky Country than Cali...and rules,regs, and restrictions are still a slog...even over there.
Things that make you go hhhhhmmmmmmmmm....
duff
PS...I did post on that thread, and some of you whom are very diehard Ren fans may not like all that I had to say about Ren's tenure at FMIC/Guild and Cordoba/Guild. While I really do respect Ren's knowledge and skill, and especially the truly amazing work he did in re-building Gibson Acoustic, in my personal opinion, which it not worth anymore than anyone else's, the work he did for Guild was not of the caliber of his Gibson work, and very problematic for Guild in some important aspects. I just mention this so as to warn that I was not out to offend anyone...as I managed to do over there on the AGF thread already...but it is just my long held opinion about the whole Ren/Guild situation...and again...my opinion is just that, and perhaps not as informed as some of yours about all this...
Still...a very interesting thread about Ren over there...worth a look and your thoughts and opinions!
But over on the AGF a thread in the General Guitar Discussion Section just popped up.
Ren did not leave from Cordoba/Guild and go back to Montana to retire...at least not for long apparently! He has gone to China to help lead the set up a brand new state of the art Pac Rim guitar factory with Shadow Electronics...who make guitar pickups and a line of electric and some limited acoustic guitars, sold mostly overseas. So Ren is over there helping to create a new SOOA factory to build primarily, I believe, acoustics.
Sooooooo...I now wonder to myself...why did Ren REALLY leave Cordoba/Guild???...cuz it sure wasn't really to flat out retire back to Bozeman, or parts thereby, and tinker with guitars, mandolins, and custom gun stocks/vintage repro firearms.
Check the thread out over on the AGF...there is a brief video too where Ren mentions that they will not be using rosewood in their guitars for the immediate future because of import/export rules,regs, and restrictions.
Do I remember properly from the thread here on Ren leaving Cordoba/Guild, that Ren left based at least a little bit on, and in some parts his frustrations with, being away from Montana and also with the slog of dealing with Cali rules, regs, and restrictions in setting up the new Guild factory?
China is a lot further away from the Big Sky Country than Cali...and rules,regs, and restrictions are still a slog...even over there.
Things that make you go hhhhhmmmmmmmmm....
duff
PS...I did post on that thread, and some of you whom are very diehard Ren fans may not like all that I had to say about Ren's tenure at FMIC/Guild and Cordoba/Guild. While I really do respect Ren's knowledge and skill, and especially the truly amazing work he did in re-building Gibson Acoustic, in my personal opinion, which it not worth anymore than anyone else's, the work he did for Guild was not of the caliber of his Gibson work, and very problematic for Guild in some important aspects. I just mention this so as to warn that I was not out to offend anyone...as I managed to do over there on the AGF thread already...but it is just my long held opinion about the whole Ren/Guild situation...and again...my opinion is just that, and perhaps not as informed as some of yours about all this...
Still...a very interesting thread about Ren over there...worth a look and your thoughts and opinions!