Tacoma DM9 Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar, Made in USA, Solid Wood

These Tacoma's are great. Real Gems and great finds when you can get one in great shape like this one. Solid wood, deep full sound, beautiful wood grain, super lightweight. These are very nice guitars. This one has very little play. A few swirls here and there, small scratches, nothing much, the worst blem is the strap scratch in the picture. Minimal to no fretwear. Comes with a really nice Breedlove soft case. Not sure of the exact year. I'm guessing late 90s or early 2000s. Serial Number is hand written.

Technically, as was pointed out to me, this is a post-Fender instrument, since Fender purchased Tacoma in October 2004 and this has a serial number indicating it was made in June of 2005. However, it is a handwritten serial number like the pre-fender tacoma's I have owned, and this one is exactly like the other two DM9's I have owned, so I would imagine this was being built prior to the sale or Fender getting their cost-efficiency experts in to ruin things. I have owned post-Fender Tacoma's with the stamped serial numbers, and they are nothing like these Tacoma's. According to Wikipedia:
"FMIC purchased the company in October 2004 for a price estimated between $2 million and $4 million and made it a division of Fender. In 2008, Fender announced it would close the 44,000 square foot  plant and lay off 70 employees, intending to move Tacoma production to existing Fender factories in Connecticut to take advantage of economies of scale. When the move was announced, former Tacoma Guitars CEO Ferdinand Boyce suggested that Fender's decision to close the plant was motivated in part by a desire to  the Tacoma manufacturing process to cut costs."
To make a long story short, this is still one of the good ones.

Details:

Solid-wood instrument featured a sitka spruce top, mahogany back and sides, a rosewood fretboard and bridge, tortoise-colored body binding, abalone dot inlays, a four-color wood rosette, and a light satin finish. Clear pickguard. The EM9's body measures 15 1/2" rather small for a jumbo, but wider than a parlor guitar. The body is joined at the 14th fret by a 25 1/2"-scale neck. Comes with original hardshell case.

 

Tacoma DM9 Made in the USA

Dreadnought Guitar.
Solid Spruce Top.
Mahogany back and sides.
Mahogany neck.
Great USA Made Guitar.