GilgaFrank said:
While I respect Taylor for their conservation efforts, here's some (slightly NSFW) reasons why I won't ever be buying one ...
OK, have to comment and since this is a Warmoth forum, I will limit it to one comment in something I consider way off topic. But I can't let this stand.
If you use an isolated youtube video to inform your opinion on something, you're in danger of being horribly misinformed.
I can find these symptoms on an isolated sample of any brand of guitar. You have no idea how this guitar may have been misused as well as what humidity history it has. This guitar spent its life in Canada, and I'm highly suspicious that this guitar has suffered through many low humidity winters in Canada without proper humidification.
Why do I think this is possible and/or likely? Because the symptoms are familiar for this type of misuse and because these symptoms do not reflect the massive volume of Taylor guitars out there. I've played/inspected dozens of them, seen several hundred and have owned a number.
Let's not let snobbery get in the way of facts. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.......