Which would you pick? 12.13.2010

mystixboi1

mystixboi1

Kick Henry Jackassowski
Today's choice: Taylor Guitars

www.taylorguitars.com it might be hard to pull from that website so please feel free to go elsewhere for your choice.

My choice:

1106010108-front-l.jpg


1106010108-detail1-l.jpg


The Taylor K22ce acoustic/electric guitar brings the great sound of koa back to the Taylor line! This Grand Concert-style guitar features a single Venetian cutaway, with beautiful and amazing-sounding Hawaiian Koa wood making up its top, back and sides. This gorgeous wood is accentuated by breathtaking binding and abalone appointments. The K22ce's tropical mahogany neck is topped with a quality ebony fingerboard, and the neck inlays are specific to Taylor's Koa Series. You'll love the excellent midrange projection you get out of the great-playing K22ce.

Taylor K22ce Grand Concert Acoustic/Electric Guitar with Cutaway Features:

Color: Natural

Type/shape: 6-String Grand Concert

Back and sides: Hawaiian koa

Top: Hawaiian koa

Soundhole rosette: Abalone

Neck: Tropical American mahogany

Fretboard: Ebony with Binding

Fretboard inlay: Abalone Koa Series

Headstock overlay: Ebony

Binding: Maple

Bridge: Ebony

Nut and saddle: Tusq

Tuning machines: Taylor slot-head

Strings: Elixir medium gauge strings with NANOWEB coating

Scale length: 24-7/8"

Truss rod: Adjustable

Neck width at nut: 1-3/4"

Number of frets: 20

Fretboard radius: 15"

Bracing: Standard II (forward shifted pattern w/relief rout)

Finish: Gloss

Cutaway: Venetian

Electronics : Taylor Expression System

Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell
 
I don't personally care for Taylor guitars. They offer a neat money clip, though :embarrassed:

MCoverview.jpg



Bob Taylor knows superb craftsmanship when he sees it. So when he received a William Henry pocket knife as a gift from a friend, he knew right away that the quality of the materials, the workmanship, and the aesthetic choices all were something special. His reaction reminded him of the way people respond to a Taylor guitar.


Bob was so impressed that he contacted the owner of the company, Matt Conable, to compliment him, only to discover that Matt was a Taylor guitar owner and loved music. A friendship was quickly forged, Matt came to visit the Taylor factory, and before long the two master craftsmen were brainstorming a possible collaborative project that would be a good fit. In addition to knives, William Henry also produces beautiful money clips, and the conversation led to the idea of a special offering of money clips that would appeal to Taylor owners.


The result is a limited edition series of co-branded money clips, offered in two different guitar-driven motifs: one designed to hold guitar picks, the other adorned with a tonewood embellishment using premium wood from the Taylor factory.
The money clips feature a choice of two different materials: either aerospace-grade titanium, noted for its strength and durability, or "raindrop"-patterned mokume gane (Japanese translation: "wood grain metal"), a metal alloy of copper, brass and nickel silver that boasts an exotic wood grain appearance. Mokume originated with the ancient, hand-forged techniques used by Japanese swordsmiths to craft decorative sword fittings and other fine tools.


Each money clip takes about six months to produce and incorporates the work of more than 12 skilled artisans and 300 individual operations overseen by Conable.


To identify the manufacturing sequence of this limited edition series, the back of each clip is engraved with an individually assigned number. In tribute to the mutual contributions of Taylor


Guitars and William Henry, the clips are engraved with the logos of both companies, along with a Taylor "gothic vine" peghead inlay design. Each pick holder money clip comes with a pack of 6 assorted colors and gauges of Taylor guitar picks. Available exclusively and for a limited time through TaylorWare, the money clips give Taylor enthusiasts an exceptionally crafted pocket accessory that complements the elegant design of a Taylor guitar.



hdr-materials.png


Titanium: An electrical process is used to color the entire titanium body, which is then selectively polished to expose colored accents.


Mokume: The process begins with the lamination of 89 layers of copper, brass and nickel silver, which are repeatedly heated and pressed flat. From there, a special patterning die is stamped onto the material to distort the top layers with the layers below to create a unique pattern. Much like a fingerprint, no two pieces of mokume are patterned the same.



hdr-styles.png


Pick Holder: A built-in pick holder stores two heavy picks or three medium/thin picks, with easy, slide-out access.


Tonewood: Three different Taylor tonewood embellishments are available: Indian rosewood, Hawaiian koa, or cocobolo. Raw, tightly-grained selections of the woods are sent to the William Henry Studio, where they are milled into a teardrop shape on a CNC machine.


MCstyles.jpg
 
1107290105-front-l.jpg


Want SOOOOO bad. For that price I can get Alistair at Emerald to custom build me one to my specs though.
 
I thought I was at jimihendrix.com for a sec, looking at all those money clips.
But no, no small Fender Heavys got clipped.
 
I am generally with Mark on Taylors. Well built guitars, but I do not care for them in the vast majority of cases...

That being said I did play a 416-CE Limited Edition (walnut B/S) in West Virginia that I really liked. There are almost always exceptions....

416-CE-LTD.jpg
 
I've played a few Taylors that I thought were pretty spectacular, a couple that were awful, and a bunch that were modestly bland.

I think if I had wanted to buy a Taylor, I could have eventually found one that I really loved, but who knows what kind it would have been. In the end, good or bad often depends on the individual guitar rather than a specific model.
 
well, after looking at the Tayloyr site for a few minutes I have to go with...

...I can't decide...
 
I really like those new GS Minis. If I ever start gigging acoustic again I'm going to buy one.
 
I'm six feet tall, and the one thing that made the first Taylors stand out for me was a wider neck.
That's the only thing I'm still interested in upgrading for my own guitar, a slightly wider neck.
That would help when it comes to bending a couple of strings up, while bending another one or two the other way.
Jann Arden is my favorite Taylor player, kinda sad and sentimental wit'it.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top