Guild will be sold to Cordoba

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Interesting!

To any who would have concerns about that, I would say that I've owned 4 Cordoba flamenco guitars and all were awesome. I still own the FCWE Gypsy Kings Reissue. Only reason that I sold the rest is that I stopped gigging my new-flamenco originals and went back to playing rock last year.

The "four musketeers"...

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Now to find a good owner to take the Hamer name from FMIC and return it to a state of goodness. :headbang:
 
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Hmm, interesting indeed.

I quite like the look of the Master series guitars Cordoba does, particularly the Torres model. Don't know what the regular guitars are like.

How are your guitars going, Frank?
 
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What happened is the facility that where Guild guitars were made closed down (they shared the building with another company). My question is are they going to continue to make the Guild electric models, as Cordoba seems to only make acoustics?. Maybe they'll get another company to make the electrics, and Cordoba will make the acoustic ones, but it wasn't clear from the announcement.

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Guild may just give up on acoustics all together, or they'll all come out of Korea, China, etc. Regardless, it's good news for the brand. It's like someone taking ownership of Buick and making them proper again after 50 years.
 
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Fender is making all those Kingmans now. I wonder if they want to simplify there line up?
 
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Alittle off topic, but everytime I see the name Cordoba I hear Ricardo Montalban's voice saying it from back when he did the commercials for the Chrysler Cordobas..

Congrats Frank! Glad its going well!
 
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I've always wanted a guitar made of fine Corinthian leather.
 
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Alittle off topic, but everytime I see the name Cordoba I hear Ricardo Montalban's voice saying it from back when he did the commercials for the Chrysler Cordobas..

Congrats Frank! Glad its going well!

You know how I know you're old? (Like me.)

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Well I hope that Cordoba is truly looking to maintain Guild as a high quality American made brand, that would be nice.

My old Guilds are certainly pulling for 'em.
 
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I love my old guilds too, and im also with the hamer comment. guild and hamer are my two favorite brands and I feel they deserve to be brought back to glory
 
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Quite well, thank you. It hasn't even been 18 months, and I couldn't have asked for a better reception. :) I've been blessed.

Proof is in the pudding, as they say. I'd love to try one, of course. There's a good little music shop where I live which is a big Lowden stockist (most comprehensive in the UK, I think), so swanky guitars would be at home ;).

I'd also be curious to know how/whether your design works for a classical. To me that would be a serious treat/gas inducer.
 
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Since this thread was started seven years ago, I'd think we'd know by now. :D
Wait...what? It was announced last week.
Proof is in the pudding, as they say. I'd love to try one, of course. There's a good little music shop where I live which is a big Lowden stockist (most comprehensive in the UK, I think), so swanky guitars would be at home ;).

I'd also be curious to know how/whether your design works for a classical. To me that would be a serious treat/gas inducer.
Feel free to contact me about that dealer. I'm always looking for good dealers and will open up dealers and distributors internationally over the next 6 months.

That's actually an interesting point to the Guild divestiture. We've only really seen Fender acquire these companies, and therefore existing dealers have to begin working with Fender. So does Guild have a dealer network, or do those accounts all belong to Fender? Like, what happens if you're a Guild dealer at the moment? It's going to be fun to watch how it plays out. I wish them well. The Cordoba factory is a few blocks from the Larrivee factory where I make the Falbos, and they're here a lot. Maybe I'll catch some early glimpses of what's to come.

BTW the first iteration of this design, many years ago, was a nylon string. It is excellent and I will launch the Classical as I have time, or if I get an order I will push it to the front.
 
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Wait...what? It was announced last week.

Man . . . I can't believe what I did. I had just searched the forum for some info, and found it in an old thread from 2007. I must've had that date in my mind when I saw this one. My bad. :banghead:
 
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Feel free to contact me about that dealer. I'm always looking for good dealers and will open up dealers and distributors internationally over the next 6 months.

BTW the first iteration of this design, many years ago, was a nylon string. It is excellent and I will launch the Classical as I have time, or if I get an order I will push it to the front.

Cool, I'll shoot you a pm.

Interesting; as a predominantly classical player on the acoustic end of things, I'm very curious. As you no doubt know, classical players are always struggling for volume, power etc. (especially in an orchestral setting) while maintaining tone. The lattice braced guitars achieve this to an extent, but tonally they can vary - I've heard some that are wonderful, others that are pretty meh. Invariably builders use a cedar top for this type because spruce would sound to harsh, so there's that restriction. You design seems to achieve many of these things while using the traditional format, so, there's potential for appeal - the lattice guitars polarize opinion a good deal, either on principle or for other reasons, such as the ones I mentioned.
 
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