See
also.
I think the question about Hamer is a red herring, in that I don't think Drum Works acquired any rights to Hamer and the folks who have such rights have shown no interest in restarting production in New Hartford. But that opinion is based on me picking and choosing from the uninformed opinions of others.
The email quoted in the AGF thread confrims what we have heard from several other sources - that only the Guild production equipment was sold and moved and the factory still houses the production line for Ovation and could be restarted, with some effort.