Now with HNTMGD Not the Taylor Ovenkol though

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telecaster911

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I’m thinking it’s one of the Spring ‘09 LTD ovenkol guitars but it’s listed as mahogany. It plays like butter and not a mark on it but I’d like to know what it is. Considering selling some electrics to fund the purchase since 99% of what I do outside of the house these days is open mic. I don’t really enjoy playing a traditional acoustic. What say the experts! TIA.
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I can't find anything about it on the Taylor website, but all the information I can find on it elsewhere says it's Ovenkol, which makes sense with that color and grain...
 
It’s the Ovenkol. My first T5 looked almost exactly like that, and my current one is the same model but happens to look like Koa.
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Late to the thread but that is definitely Ovenkol. I've never seen a Mahogany with a dark grain like that. It is usually much more uniform in color.
 
I've not seen a T5 with that top. I like it!
I've actually considered selling off stuff and ending up with something like that. I just don't play enough to justify all of the individual stuff. When I want to play it would be nice to just grab the one for everything.
I am fully aware that it is not going to do what a full on electric or acoustic would do but for me, I don't need all of that anymore.
 
When you brought up the "Ovankol vs Koa" thing.... it reminded me that the Taylor T5 guitar that I've been playing for the past 10 or so years was my SECOND T5.

I had an Ovation which was cool, but I wanted a guitar that I could switch between acoustic sounds and electric sounds... so I bought a used Koa guitar with built in acoustic/electric options (I believe it was an Ibanez, seen below with my buddy Tim playing it at Pragestock.

EDIT: It was the Ibanez Montage which had an electric pickup under the strings, built in fuzz, reverb, chorus... but all the weight and thick poly finish on the Koa just made the acoustic sounds very meh.

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Only problem was.... the acoustic sounds in this guitar were basically garbage.

The T5 came out about then and I got a STEAL on a used one.... think it was Summer of 2012 and it might be the one in this video:



I really liked it, but it wasn't as good looking as the Koa Ibanez I had before... just plain brown, even though it sounded WAAAY better. Then a couple months later, one popped up on Sweetwater's site and my eyes fell out of my head! It looked just like Koa but was the same Ovankol model... but brand new. I sold the T5 to a guy locally for well under what he could get one new, but managed to make an extra $75 over what I paid for it. :helper:

Sold a pedal as well, and with a few bucks on top of the used T5, I took delivery of this brand new one at the end of 2012. They may have even come from the same batch because in many places the wood was a similar grain and color... but this one has flame on it that I've never seen on another T5 Classic. The T5z came out a year or two later and the body is dimensionally smaller... like the T5 Classic is 335 sized and the T5z is 339 sized.

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Since the pic above, this guitar has played hundreds of indoor and outdoor gigs... sun rain... my ham-handed thrashing... wore the frets down to road kill... got refretted with medium jumbo EVO Gold frets, has PRS strap buttons in all three locations, had the tiny humbucker routed out for a Duncan 'Lil 59 that runs to it's own volume and separate output, and I swapped out the Taylor tuning pegs for Hipshot locking tuners.
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