Plant
owned factory
Westerly, RI, USA[1]. Built for 1 brand on record.
Former furniture factory. conflict:K003 opening 1967 (mmone) vs 1969 (Blue Book). Geolocated 2026-10-15: 23 Industrial Drive, Westerly, identified as the former Guild factory by inference from a forum post plus a directory listing (low-medium confidence); Nominatim building match; claim C423.
More: every plant in the USA, the Guild lineage.
The point marks Westerly, RI, USA at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded place[1]. Lines run in from where its materials come from (listed below). Each origin is the centre of the region or country on record, not a mill or a forest.
Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.
The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.
| Years | Operator | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 1967–1986 | Avnet, Inc. | secondary[2] |
| 1986–1988 | Management/investor group incl. George Gruhn (legal name unverified) | secondary[2, 3] |
| 1988–1995 | FAAS Corporation (renamed U.S. Music Corp. 1993) | secondary[2, 3] |
| 1995–2001 | Fender Musical Instruments Corporation | secondary[2] |
| Years | Brand | Line | Role | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967–2001 | Guild | Guild USA | full build | secondary[2] |
| 1969–2001 | Guild | Guild USA | full build | disputed[3] |
The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.
| Years | Line | Owner | Parent |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967–1986[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 2] | Guild USA | Avnet, Inc. | — |
| 1986–1988[9, 5, 7, 10, 2] | Guild USA | Management/investor group incl. George Gruhn (legal name unverified) | — |
| 1988–1995[9, 5, 7, 2] | Guild USA | FAAS Corporation (renamed U.S. Music Corp. 1993) | — |
| 1995–2001[11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, ] |
What reaches the plant, in what form, from where, and who supplied it. A plant building for several brands draws on the same supply for all of them. 1 of these has no map point and is listed only.
| Material | Form | From | Supplier | Customs | Years | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sitka spruce Picea sitchensisAdded 2026-10-15 (llm:claude-sonnet-5-5). Fan-site tour observed 1998-12-09 says Sitka spruce tops come from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest; raw wood arrives and is dried on site. Form mapped from 'raw wood'. A single-day observation. Source S213 (community). | sawn lumber | Alaska and Pacific Northwest, USA | Not on record | — | 1998–1999 | unverified[18] |
| Material not namedAdded 2026-10-15 (llm:claude-sonnet-5-5). Same 1998-12-09 tour: ebony from Africa, dried about two years. Species not stated. Form mapped from 'raw wood'. Source S213 (community). | sawn lumber | Africa (country not stated) | Not on record | — | 1998–1999 | unverified[18] |
Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.
| Guild USA |
| Fender Musical Instruments Corporation |
| — |