>Matt visits the Taylor Guitar factory on a preliminary tour..

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I will post some more soon if you are enjoying these.

[KennyF]

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[Music Junkie]

Matt:

Thanks for taking the time to post these. I am still planning on making it down there this year to take this tour. If things go according to plan, it will be later this month, or the first part of next month (depends on when grandma cam come watch the boys while my wife and I get away for a weekend to SD....lol).

I found my recent dealings with the Taylor Company to be quite wonderful. Made me want to take the tour even more....

J

[wrench]

Matt,

I think Bob tricked you with the pine guitar. Pine and Spruce are first cousins, so shipping crate pine could conceivably become a soundboard. Beyond that though, I agree with him totally. In the mid 1800's, Torres made a guitar of paper mache to prove exactly that point.

By the way, after a lot of serious study, Bob Taylor is the greatest innovator of guitar design and manufacture of all time. Full stop.

[KennyF]

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[wrench]

KennyF wrote:

wrench wrote:

By the way, after a lot of serious study, Bob Taylor is the greatest innovator of guitar design and manufacture of all time. Full stop.

I think you may have over-enthusiastically skidded past the realm of reality with that statement. :laugh:

On design maybe, but not on manufacturing. Taylor has extremely efficient, effective, and intelligent manufacturing. Yeah, he's a victim of his time in history on design, though. Torres and C.F. Martin made the rules on design.

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