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otis66

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Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« on: November 09, 2013, 10:04:09 PM »
I thought it was time for me to add a Taylor Solid body guitar to my Taylor guitar collection but I cannot find Solid body electric guitar on the Taylor website. Did Taylor stop making solidbody electric guitars?

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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2013, 02:42:56 PM »
Otis,
 It is a bit odd that the solid bodies seem to "hidden" or taking a back seat to the Z. This link will get you there. Hope that helps, bro.
 
 http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/electric/solidbody

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otis66

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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2013, 08:31:04 AM »
Otis,
 It is a bit odd that the solid bodies seem to "hidden" or taking a back seat to the Z. This link will get you there. Hope that helps, bro.
 
 http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/electric/solidbody

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Thanks this does help. Now if only I can find a guiitar shop near me that have Taylor solid bodies.

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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2013, 06:46:04 AM »
I can confirm that as of October 1st Taylor stopped making these guitars.  It took me the last few weeks to get anyone there to actually admit this though.

This really upset me because I just bought one in mid September!  I'd always wanted one and do love the guitar but one of the big selling points for me was that they built the whole pickup and pickguard assembly so that you could actually buy (from Taylor) different pickup configurations and just "pop it in" (there's a single cable connection under there so you don't have to rewire your guitar to get a whole different pickup configuration).

So now, after owning it for about 6 weeks I asked my local guy "get me the 3 single coil pickup config" -- and that's when I found out: no more guitars and no more parts either.  So I can't buy the pickup config I wanted to buy.

So I guess if the guitar breaks in any way, I'm screwed since they won't have parts to fix it?

Anyway - just found this out yesterday so I'm still pretty upset…  >:(



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rbr49x

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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2013, 12:03:55 PM »
Yes, confirmed at Road Show by Taylor rep. in Cincinnati last night - Solid Body officially discontinued.
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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2013, 12:44:54 PM »
I wonder if the amount of dollars poured into this project, and its ultimate failure, was what led to Brian Swerdfeger leaving Taylor.
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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2013, 01:39:27 PM »
I'm assuming that these were not well selling guitars. Not that they weren't good, but most likely when people are looking for solid bodies they have other makes in mind. Companies are wise to discontinue items that don't sell well. I do think they ought to keep a supply of spare parts around to at least be able to repair what you have.

I liked their site where you could configure a model and see what it would look like before ordering. That would be cool to do with the acoustic BTO's. The wood patterns would vary, but you could at least get a general idea of what it would look like with certain bindings, armrests, and other appointments.

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Re: Taylor Solid Body Guitar
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2013, 03:43:28 PM »
You knew it was the end when they donated 300 units of prebuilt inventory into the school music programs.  Better to take the write-off...


The solidbody is/was a fine guitar.  Visually very appealing with the nice woods, and the build quality was typical Taylor precision.  Tonally, I had an issue in that they lacked personality and character.  Transparent tone (good), but didn't have anything that separated it from the pack.   I think the issue was, as pretty and easy playing as the SB was, they were about double the price they should have been for what they offered the player. 


It's okay.  Taylor learned the same lesson that Martin, Larrivee, and most other modern acoustic only guitar builders have learned -- Electrics are a completely different ball game steeped in their own traditions and tonal signatures...
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