The neck is obviously Hoboken era. The writing in the guitar is dated 1996. This is about the time that Fender purchased Guild. Makes me wonder if this was a dumpster find. Alot of stuff was discarded during clean up..... interested what others think.
Don't think Fender dumped anything until closing Westerly in '01.
In any case, I've had a pretty good eye for this stuff in past and thanks to Frono even took a second look.
Don't think any part of that's a Guild, except
maybe neck as you said, but only if a "crown" had been modified to try to duplicate a "lips" style, from what I can see.
Other points:
Location of cover screw holes around truss rod slot/ access slot cut all the way to nut.
Frets don't look right, and something about board doesn't look right either, like it's been dyed.
Although heel is rounded and we know there was a "flatter and "rounder" profile depending on body neck was joined to, that one's just too round.
Interior bracing is way too sloppy for Guild (crooked center strip)
Guild only used herringbone rosette in a limited number of models like the DV52.
It
might be a Guild top, but even bridge is wrong.
Finally, body shape looks a wee bit too flat on bottom.
Along with Frono's observation that the logo looks like a decal, I wouldn't even look any deeper into this one.
Now, if it had an
s/n stamped on back of headstock
then maybe I'd be tempted to look a little deeper.
Edit: I see Hans slipped in while I was composing...what took me about 5 minutes he probably eyeballed in about 10 seconds....LOL!!