Just ordered a Taylor UPDATE WITH PICS on pg 6!

[hannaugh]

It's finally here!  It looks and sounds great, and I look forward to wearing it in.  Hooray for my first all-solid wood acoustic guitar!  :hello2:

I must say, the case is also very nice.  I wasn't expecting something this nice with an included case.  Fits the guitar like a glove too.  As you can see, Mr. Tumnus approves. 

 

[bbl4ck]

Great congrats on your new geetar  ccasion14:
That is a real beauty and I would consider myself lucky to own one too some day.
Have fun with her &  :rock-on:

 

[elfro89]

Nice, I want to get myself a decent acoustic soon.

 

[DangerousR6]

Wow, nice geetar, very nice...Pretty cat too... :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

 

[hannaugh]

He's my favorite of our three cats (but don't tell the others). 

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Nice!  Looks like they picked some beautiful pieces of wood for your instrument.  Have fun!

 

[tfarny]

Sweet! Looks gorgeous, I'm sure it sounds amazing.  :icon_thumright:

 

[Cagey]

Taylors always sound amazing. Their plants are absolutely infested with tone worms.

 

[Soylent]

Taylors always sound amazing. Their plants are absolutely infested with tone worms.

Agreed. I love mine  :headbang:

 

[stubhead]

Well I'm at the wrong end of the stick here but: fret crowning files are the most kickassible fingernail files imaginable. Just don't tell the siggie ot. if you need to work on frets soon.... I would hope a Taylor would be past that lovely little part of newguitarisms. I like to listen to other people play them just fine, but I must personally side with Jeff Beck, the Rev. William Gibbons et alia - "I unplug for no one...."

 

[line6man]

I just don't like my fingers looking like I caught them in the garbage disposal. Makes it hard to play guitar.

I was being sarcastic...I use clippers like any other civilized person... :doh:

Nail clippers? Those are crude and old fashioned tools. I use a CNC router to trim my fingernails. I can get the tolerance down to 0.0001", and I get consistent results.

Awesome guitar, Hannah!  :icon_thumright:

 

[stubhead]

I'll be needing to add a backstage "Nail Plekker" to my concert contract rider....

 

[rapfohl09]

Wow, that is beautiful! I love the headstock!


And I like the cat as well!

 

[hannaugh]

Thanks for the comments, guys!  I played it a bunch yesterday.  The fretwork is just about perfect, the sound is great, the electronic component works great.  It's still a little stiff because it is new, but other than that... I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 

 

[Cagey]

Well I'm at the wrong end of the stick here but: fret crowning files are the most kickassible fingernail files imaginable. Just don't tell the siggie ot. if you need to work on frets soon.... I would hope a Taylor would be past that lovely little part of newguitarisms. I like to listen to other people play them just fine, but I must personally side with Jeff Beck, the Rev. William Gibbons et alia - "I unplug for no one...."

I don't know that I'd call fret crowning files the most "kickassible fingernail files imaginable". Far from it, actually. I can't imagine them working well for that at all, unless I had claws instead of nails. What you want is the diamond file from Maybelline. Now, that is a kickass file, and substantially less expensive than a fret crowning file. Although, if you can get multiple uses out of a tool, of course you should do it.

As far as "unplugging for no one" goes, I can appreciate the sentiment, but there are some things that only work on acoustics. What they should be saying is "I can't take advantage of an acoustic in such a way as to be entertaining." It's not an unusual situation. They require a different touch, and different compositions.

 

[reluctant-builder]

I rarely use my Seagull nor my classical, but I do appreciate both for their individual character.

For a long time, I was much more inclined to "make noise," used a lot of gain ... and I still like to make music like that ... but lately I've been really drawn to clean tones. I've been playing a lot of blues and, just recently, I put fresh strings on my dreadnought. It was a real joy to play, even if the action is absurdly high compared to my electrics.

I like most forms of stringed instruments. I love the way banjo sounds, fiddle and violin are great, too. I think everything has its place, in the grand scheme but -- usually -- not everything will fit into our own schemes, whatever they may be.

Can't go wrong with a Taylor, though.

One of these days, I'd like to have one. Maybe once I have a house whose climate I can control. It would be close to a crime to put a gorgeous, delicate and expensive guitar like that in a Brooklyn apartment, with its steam heat in the winter and absurd tendency to retain excessive humidity in the summer.

 

[MedianMusic1]

Nice acoustic. Makes me want to play mine again (although it's not a Taylor).

 

[hannaugh]

One of these days, I'd like to have one. Maybe once I have a house whose climate I can control. It would be close to a crime to put a gorgeous, delicate and expensive guitar like that in a Brooklyn apartment, with its steam heat in the winter and absurd tendency to retain excessive humidity in the summer.

Supposedly if you keep it in it's case when you're not playing, and you throw some silica gel packets in there with it every couple months, it should prevent it from getting wet guitar syndrome. 

I have the opposite problem in So Cal.  We have very dry weather here for part of the year.  October is usually the worst because that's when the Santa Ana winds pickup and we have wild fire season.  I'm gonna go pick up a hygrometer for my case today.  I don't want my baby drying out.

 

[bbl4ck]

One of these days, I'd like to have one. Maybe once I have a house whose climate I can control. It would be close to a crime to put a gorgeous, delicate and expensive guitar like that in a Brooklyn apartment, with its steam heat in the winter and absurd tendency to retain excessive humidity in the summer.

Supposedly if you keep it in it's case when you're not playing, and you throw some silica gel packets in there with it every couple months, it should prevent it from getting wet guitar syndrome.  

I have the opposite problem in So Cal.  We have very dry weather here for part of the year.  October is usually the worst because that's when the Santa Ana winds pickup and we have wild fire season.  I'm gonna go pick up a hygrometer for my case today.  I don't want my baby drying out.

Hannaugh,

I would suggest you get one of these hydrometers.  I do not have a nice Taylor like yours, but I have a fairly nice Breedlove of which I am very fond.
Living in Phoenix, likely a dryer climate than yours, I understand the importance of storing my acoustics in a properly hydrated climate.
I always have this hydrometer in my case with my guitar.  As you mentioned, if you store your Taylor in the case, it will be within a safe humidity level most of the time.
It is only during the driest times of winter, usually a couple months, that mine is out of range.  
I just put the humidifier in the case for a few days and everything is back to normal.  

Good luck and show that Taylor some good lovin'
:rock-on:

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[reluctant-builder]

As an aside, I think that's the nicest bedspread I've seen in any of the guitar photos on this forum, too.