Ten Things you should know about Taylor Guitars BEFORE you buy one!

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before buying a Taylor guitar so if you are in the market and you've been buying one, maybe something beautiful like what I have on my lap, then you'll want to pay attention and be sure that you're not an informed buyer because I read things on the Internet and some of the shenanigans that go on, but if you know This, you will be better informed when you buy one, so let's get started.

The number one Taylor guitar makes acoustic and high quality. electric

guitars

in El Cajon California USA and in Tecate Mexico and that's it, those are the only two places where Taylor currently makes

guitars

, so if you see a really good deal on a Taylor guitar and it wasn't made in El Cajon California or Tecate Mexico then is not a Taylor guitar, run, run, run fast, run Talon, my number two music, so all Taylor guitars are made in the US or Mexico. Guitars made in the USA are made of solid materials, meaning they have solid tops and sides on all of them.

Of the acoustic guitars, even the t5 s have solid tops with hollowed sapele bodies, only the t 3, which are hollow body electric guitars, have laminated maple tops and at Mexico Factory in Tecate they make guitars with layered back and sides , but they all feature solid wood tops, now some people say they are ply or laminate, but Taylor wants to make a distinction on that because not all laminates are created equal, so if you are buying guitars in general and You're comparing guitars and wondering what the difference is between laminated ones. and the layer, it's well laminated, it may not even be wood, it could be a composite material, sawdust, wood glue, resins and screen printed wood grain and at that point it looks more like formica than wood, while ply laminated wood is actually layers of real wood grain, so it's an important distinction to keep in mind when purchasing, but if it's made in Mexico, its solid top with back plies on the sides, if It is made in the USA, is completely solid, being the third manufacturer of Taylor guitars and a high quality gig. bags that come with their guitars, from a baby Taylor to a 200 series, they come with a different type of case, but they are all custom made cases and they are all really good, and anything from a 200 Series Deluxe.

From now on, all American guitars come with a hard case, the case comes with the guitar dealers, they don't pay any extra for those cases, they pay what the guitar costs and the guitar arrives in a case, so if anyone is trying to sell you. case of an additional amount above the price of the guitar, run Alamo Music or another reputable dealer who will not do that. Taylor number four guitars feature a bolt-on neck construction. Now, this is pretty common in the electric guitar world, but it wasn't a no-no, in the acoustic guitar world, particularly high-end acoustic guitars, when Bob Taylor initially started doing it in the 1970s. , that design has progressed and become normative, where many high-end guitar manufacturers now use proven bolt-on necks. stable and easily adjustable, but none as much as Taylor's on the Teaneck, refined in the early 2000s and on all guitars since late 2000 or 2001.

Taylor features and on the Teaneck construction which uses CNC machines for milling cavities within the guitar body and By allowing both the heel and fingerboard to be screwed to the guitar body, this ensures a precise fit and angle from the factory, but also means that your guitar, which is a quality heirloom that you want to keep for a lifetime, you can easily have the mast angle. adjusted in about three minutes, maybe a little more than that, but it takes that to remove the neck, put the proper shims on, put it back on, everything is fine at this point, this should give you an indication of exactly how innovative and technological focus.

Taylor is one of the first acoustic guitar makers to start using CNC computer numerically controlled milling machines in their factory, as well as lasers, and they use that technology along with robotic polishing machines and other things to create consistency where it's needed, but the las Tools do not replace the craftsmen, they are there to help the craftsmen, leading to high quality, lightly built, virtually perfect acoustic guitars, so they are unrivaled when it comes to quality in a guitar built in factory and that's one of the main reasons why number five Andy Boosts the master guitar designer from Taylor Guitars introduced in 2018.

The class V bracing is a very different design from how acoustic guitars and Taylor guitars specifically, as well as many others, have been reinforced in previous years. Traditionally, steel-string acoustic guitars use a two-lead X-brace. Crossing X on top to provide strength but flexibility and powers V-bracing two occurred. parallel braces that run parallel to the guitar strings and provide a means of balancing sustain and volume without sacrificing one for the other, so instead of having an active rocker where you have sustain or volume or volume or sustain, you can manipulate both independently. each other also have the added benefit of improving intonation without changing anything on the neck, nothing on the saddle, nothing on the fret, but the harmonics are now in tune, the top moves more orderly, the guitar overall is more tuned with great intonation.

Even the neck with no dead notes Taylor believes in this so much that they introduced it to his most popular body shape, Grand Auditorium expanded it to a new body shape, the Grand Pacific, a round-shouldered dreadnought guitar designed this year. year a great concert body shape and in the future will be present in their entire line of acoustic guitars. Whether Tecate guitars made in Mexico will get it at this time remains to be seen, but stay tuned, we'll find out later. six Taylor guitars are not afraid to introduce new bracing, new pickups, new finishes, new woods or anything else that to an outsider might seem silly or threaten their place in the market as a market leader, that's because they don't design guitars by committee or based on Market Research Taylor Guitars is a design-driven company and in this point follows the lead of Andy Powers, who has been designing guitars there for a while and introducing innovations such as V-Class bracing.

It is fitting then that Andy Powers was recently named the third partner in Taylor guitars joining founding partners Bob Taylor and Kurt. Congratulations well deserved. Andy Taylor guitars feature a proprietary UV-cured polyurethane-based finish that they developed many, many years ago. Now the design behind the finish was to create something that was durable but thin. they would resonate with the guitar but wouldn't respond to things like nitrocellulose finishes. They do just as much as many of us love a beautiful nitrocellulose finish. They are prone to damage and react to vinyl plastic foams and other things that contain plasticizers.

So Tangler wanted to make something that was environmentally friendly, fine, resonant and great for production. It UV cures in seconds, is rock hard and has a beautiful shine. Recently they have been experimenting and have created what is called a quiet satin finish which is On the guitar that I have, I have a fine satin finish that is also very quiet compared to a traditional satin finish, so as we have already seen , they continue to innovate and mess things up and are always trying to make guitars better. Have you ever been? church and noticed the worship leader was playing a Taylor guitar or turned on a saw Chris Tumlin on stage playing Taylor guitar or watching a country band playing a Taylor guitar or a rock band playing a Taylor guitar or Taylor Swift playing a Taylor guitar for For many years, Taylors have appeared on stages around the world and it was for two main reasons, or maybe three, one: a beautiful more modern look and a fantastic feel and playability, most importantly, with a thin neck and low action, which both new and former electric guitarists could feel comfortable playing, and three Taylor guitars have long been equipped with a pickup system;

In fact, you could say that, when it comes to high-end guitars, for many years Taylor was the main player when he came up with a Cee guitar, which means cutaway electronics. Now they used to use Fisherman pickup systems and for over a decade they have been making their own pickup systems, but these attributes have really appealed to players who are going to play on stage through amplification, so next time If you see six Taylor guitars lying on top of a worship stage, you'll know why Nine Taylor Guitars as a company is very vertically integrated, meaning they don't get many things that other companies would get for their guitars.

For example, the guitar's pickup system is designed by Taylor, manufactured by Taylor, and is not available on any other guitar. The reinforcement we have talked about is patented. You won't see it anywhere else. The next pocket is patented. The cases. They are made by them and in fact even many of the tools are designed and trademarked by Bob Taylor since the 1970s. It's actually kind of interesting if you ever pay attention to other guitar factories that they have taken advantage of. Some of the tools that Bob Taylor and his team have built over the years, from robotic automation for polishing machines to clamps for keeping the crimp inside the guitar while you're building it, it's pretty phenomenal that they had that type of scope. and easily share it with other manufacturers, finally number 10 Bob Taylor is a fierce conservationist, believes in responsible forestry practices and at this point in his career has stepped away from guitar design, leaving it in the hands of Andy Powers to focus on practices forestry and wood. and basically making sure that long after he's gone and long after I'm gone, long after most of us watching this video are gone, there's enough koa, mahogany rosewood and ebony for everyone and continue to make beautiful instruments, guitars and such with these valuable and precious tone woods in that mentality they have been involved with forest maintenance practices around the world and Taylor on his own YouTube channel has published a great series of videos where Bob Taylor has basically traveled the world visiting some of these sites, one of his main points in doing this refers to ebony.

Taylor invested with a Spanish company called Mad and entered an ebony factory in Cameroon called Crellick Ham. This is to ensure that the supply of ebony available for instruments, whether guitars, continues and that good forestry practices are implemented. That we don't run out of available ebony, replanting and better utilizing the material has really gone a long way to ensuring that ebony is here to stay and has had the added benefit of ensuring that guitarists have exposure to beautiful carved ebonies. their guitars instead of the jet black ebony we are used to, many have adopted this figure in the wood and really find beauty in it as an added bonus, now you can even get a cutting board made of this ebony and help support the people who run that factory on the other side of the world, very interesting stuff, okay, so bonus number 11, so to speak, has to do with Taylor guitars, but maybe it's something you don't necessarily need to know before buy them. this little song because people always ask me what I play in these videos this little song people always ask me what's the name of that song.

I don't know. I heard that tune played by Andy Powers at Taylor guitar Factory in 2014 while he was visiting othersdealers and he was showing what was at the time a prototype of the soon-to-be-released 6:14 C with the new Advanced Performance Boost. He played that song and I was mesmerized. I loved the melody. I'm in love with it and I've played it well a bit. I've been able to remember it since then, so I don't know what it's called. I don't have tabs for him, but maybe Andy will watch this video and he can tell us what his name is.

I'm pretty sure he wrote it and maybe he can give us tablature and he can start playing it properly. We'll see anyway. I hope they have helped you learn a little better about Taylor guitars. is a fantastic company, we have enjoyed partnering with them for decades and as a result we have been in the top ten dealers repeatedly and have probably earned one of the largest selections of Taylor guitars in South Texas. That's because we believe in the product we believe in. company and I am a fan in my house there are around seven tailors. I'm not saying they're all mine, but there are about seven of them, so if you have any questions about them, we consider ourselves experts, so click the link. below will take you to our website you can fill out a form and we will help you find the right guitar that suits your needs again if you are new here click subscribe turn on your notifications like our video and comment on continuation.

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