Guild moved to New Hartford in '09. I'd guess some of the Tacoma production made it over to the East Coast and got a New Hartford label before going to market?
Most definitely not.
It was liquidated through MIRC, not all of it "happily", either.
Interesting question. In the past, Guild seemed to use what labels they had on hand and didn't start using new factory ones until they ran out. At least that's what if feels like.
ONLY DURING THE HOBOKEN TO WESTERLY TRANSITION.
NOT SO for any of the successive moves.
I suppose, however, there could have been guitar ALMOST finished that did get shipped all the way from Washington to Connecticut, and then labeled. Guitars cost more to ship to the new place than guitars do, so it's less likely.
Corroborating Chaz's input, simply "No".
The only things I've seen that come "close" were early NH "idea" prototypes that obviously used existing Tacoma parts.
And seem to recall those didn't even get labels.
They DID ship "kits" of almost completed guitars from Westerly to Corona, but that was because the Corona builders had no experience with acoustic flat-top construction.
That wasn't the case in New Hartford: those guys already had a ton of experience building Ovations.
Wondering about my early '09 D50 Bluegrass Special. I've read some of the specs changed with the move (radius of the top, lighter build in general) Wondering if mine could be a Tacoma with a New Hartford label, or if all the New Hartford labels had the new specs? One giveaway may be the neck side strap button in the body of mine, which they did in Tacoma but did away with in New Hartford. Just curious really. Either way it's fantastic! Any clue?
Corroborating everybody else's input here on all those points matches my memories of posts and threads at the time.
One, thing though, I did think they had the specs already locked in when production started, because they had plenty of time to work 'em out.
And one member got a brand new F50 at an LMG as a warranty exchange for his Tacoma which was determined to have a flawed neck.
Because the construction and specs were so different that it wasn't possible to simply mount an NH neck on a Tacoma-built guitar.
"Read between
those lines", as I like to say.
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