I finally got ahold of someone at Taylor. Talked to a customer service rep first, then a sales rep. The Customer service guy was nice and did the calculations on the DMSM Dave Matthews Signature. He said mine was made in 2012. The production numbers he had for 2010 was 353 and in 2011 only 28. That makes little sense to me? All I know is mine started production on 1/12/12 and they have been discountinued for a couple months now.
On the flip side, the sales rep told me that they are discontinued, but couldn't tell me why or when. Not hard to figure out approx timeline. But he said it was a production model and not a limited edition model, so there are plenty of them out there. Even so, the numbers given to me and what they could have produced in 2012 can't be all that huge of a number. Especially when each one has a hand signed label from Dave Matthews and Robert Taylor. I am sure Dave did not sit there signing 2000 labels.
So in essence, I like to believe it is in fact a limited edition guitar. Look at some of the "um, hum"...Martin guitars that did LE models with Buffett, Mayer, etc and they had 400+ made. Am I wrong in thinking that this model will be a good one to hold onto? The Taylor rep sounded liek that was not the case???
Thx!
