Great choice to show! Thank you. Also, great explanations. Great distinctive sounds. Great looking! Still plenty 'o jangle for me. Pretty good value in Taylor terms.
Perfect pieces to showcase that guitar. Beautiful voice, beautiful guitar. There are competitors on the market, but they don’t sound like this one. Even with layered back and sides the sound was full and bright where it needed to be.
There is also an all solid wood Eastman 12 string with an L R Baggs Element VTC for 1,111.20 Sitka over mahogany. Jumbo body. Enough for a few songs in a gig.
I considered a Taylor 254 Plus 12-string, but for that money I really thought I should buy something with all solid wood. I found Breedlove and bought their Organic Solo Concert CE 12-string. It’s solid mahogany back and sides, with a solid red cedar top. Surprisingly, I really do like that wood combination as it softens the not so uncommon over-the-top jangle of a spruce top, lower-end 12-strings. The Breedlove is a beautiful guitar with a great setup and tone. It’s also easy to play. It’s early, but I do not regret passing on the Taylor.
That Breedlove is amazing, heard and played one myself, it produces such a lovely and full sound. Another great option as well is Yamaha's LL16/12. Solid Engelmann Spruce top with Solid Rosewood back and sides, for $1,019.99 and sales that drop it as low as $900. Actually, I'd rather buy both the Breedlove and Yamaha and have two great and unique sounding guitars, than just one good sounding Taylor 😂
@ I thought about the Yamaha, but I really didn’t want a jumbo body. I also wanted to go a different route with the tone wood, away from spruce. I have also been intrigued by Breedlove and over the years have flirted with buying one. Not to say that one is better than the other, the Breedlove was the right choice for me! And my Martin 6-string is spruce, so I have that covered.
Nice review! After comparing several Taylor 12 strings earlier this year I chose this one. I thought it sounded better than the 300 series all mahogany. The spruce top was a touch brighter but honestly I loved the look and sound of this guitar. Had several friends play it as well and all have been really impressed.
Yamaha.... all solid LL16/12. solid Englemann top. Solid Indian rosewood sides, beautiful fit and finish, sounds like angels singing, SO easy to play. Around $1000 Australian. So next to nothing in devided states dollars. Wouldn't want to own any other 12 string....oh, nice playing by the way.
Chris, those words may have a copyright: Double your pleasure, Double your fun with Double mint, Double mint, Double mint gum. Built Wrigley field. Double string, Double string, Double string ring. Mahogany, Koa, Maple, or Sycamore tops.
@johnwashburn3793 nah, a Taylor 12-string is not A trouble. They tune easy and play well. Not your typical 12-string "half the time tuning, half the time playing out of tune." I had one, but traded it during shutdown because I was not playing it as much. I now have a 9-string that is more useful.
Sounds great! Question for your luthiers: since the ES2 elements are behind the saddle, could you install an Anthem, without ripping out the ES2? Thanks.
i just love 12 strings ❤ i have one with fantastic action and solid top and it sounds great and the only difference to a 6 string is the wider fretboard. other than that it plays extremely close to a usual guitar.
i’ve just watched a video where a luthier or guitar service technician actually installs thin strips of off-cut veneer and puts one between the saddle and the piezo element and he swears that it improves the tone and gets rid of the imbalances between the strings. but i still think the es-2 is the superior system in general.
Looks like a plainer version of the K62ce, for around half the price. I own that model and like it a lot. If the difference is largely cosmetic I'd say this one is great value.
It's a slightly bigger body and longer scale, 14 fret neck to the body and solid top but with layered back and sides. Those are the biggest differences - Chris
another great guitar demo and sales pitch, you guys are great. That Koa top sure is a beauty! Nice Gretsch on the wall behind you too!
Great choice to show! Thank you. Also, great explanations. Great distinctive sounds. Great looking! Still plenty 'o jangle for me. Pretty good value in Taylor terms.
Perfect pieces to showcase that guitar. Beautiful voice, beautiful guitar. There are competitors on the market, but they don’t sound like this one. Even with layered back and sides the sound was full and bright where it needed to be.
Hard market against all solid wood Guilds, Takamine and Yamaha. But I do love the 6 string version and imagine this is equally great.
There is also an all solid wood Eastman 12 string with an L R Baggs Element VTC for 1,111.20 Sitka over mahogany. Jumbo body. Enough for a few songs in a gig.
I considered a Taylor 254 Plus 12-string, but for that money I really thought I should buy something with all solid wood. I found Breedlove and bought their Organic Solo Concert CE 12-string. It’s solid mahogany back and sides, with a solid red cedar top. Surprisingly, I really do like that wood combination as it softens the not so uncommon over-the-top jangle of a spruce top, lower-end 12-strings. The Breedlove is a beautiful guitar with a great setup and tone. It’s also easy to play. It’s early, but I do not regret passing on the Taylor.
That Breedlove is amazing, heard and played one myself, it produces such a lovely and full sound.
Another great option as well is Yamaha's LL16/12. Solid Engelmann Spruce top with Solid Rosewood back and sides, for $1,019.99 and sales that drop it as low as $900.
Actually, I'd rather buy both the Breedlove and Yamaha and have two great and unique sounding guitars, than just one good sounding Taylor 😂
@ I thought about the Yamaha, but I really didn’t want a jumbo body. I also wanted to go a different route with the tone wood, away from spruce. I have also been intrigued by Breedlove and over the years have flirted with buying one. Not to say that one is better than the other, the Breedlove was the right choice for me! And my Martin 6-string is spruce, so I have that covered.
Nice review! After comparing several Taylor 12 strings earlier this year I chose this one. I thought it sounded better than the 300 series all mahogany. The spruce top was a touch brighter but honestly I loved the look and sound of this guitar. Had several friends play it as well and all have been really impressed.
Love it when you get Geeky Chris.
Yamaha.... all solid LL16/12. solid Englemann top. Solid Indian rosewood sides, beautiful fit and finish, sounds like angels singing, SO easy to play. Around $1000 Australian. So next to nothing in devided states dollars. Wouldn't want to own any other 12 string....oh, nice playing by the way.
Yep I'll be picking this up.
Nice guitar. Really nice! 🧡
Chris, those words may have a copyright: Double your pleasure, Double your fun with Double mint, Double mint, Double mint gum. Built Wrigley field. Double string, Double string, Double string ring. Mahogany, Koa, Maple, or Sycamore tops.
Double trouble?
@johnwashburn3793 nah, a Taylor 12-string is not A trouble. They tune easy and play well. Not your typical 12-string "half the time tuning, half the time playing out of tune." I had one, but traded it during shutdown because I was not playing it as much. I now have a 9-string that is more useful.
Great sound and looks! Wish my fingers could handle a 12 string.
Sounds great! Question for your luthiers: since the ES2 elements are behind the saddle, could you install an Anthem, without ripping out the ES2? Thanks.
i just love 12 strings ❤ i have one with fantastic action and solid top and it sounds great and the only difference to a 6 string is the wider fretboard. other than that it plays extremely close to a usual guitar.
I use a Misi rechargeable pickup in my Epiphone DR 212 and it has great sound up and down the neck for me.
Now I got it. You and Cooper had a boy fight 🤪🎸
WOW . . . two words I never thought I'd see in the same sentence:- ' Taylor' and 'Value'.
i’ve just watched a video where a luthier or guitar service technician actually installs thin strips of off-cut veneer and puts one between the saddle and the piezo element and he swears that it improves the tone and gets rid of the imbalances between the strings. but i still think the es-2 is the superior system in general.
of course you need to sand down the saddle to make room for that extra piece of wood.
Looks like a plainer version of the K62ce, for around half the price. I own that model and like it a lot. If the difference is largely cosmetic I'd say this one is great value.
It's a slightly bigger body and longer scale, 14 fret neck to the body and solid top but with layered back and sides. Those are the biggest differences - Chris
@@AlamoMusic Thanks, that's way more than cosmetic! It's a shame that people will baulk at the layered B&S at this price.
Such good looking guitar very nice. Is being guitar geek considered bad thing? 😮
Not in my world.
How does it compare to 356 ce 12 Strings Taylor acoustic electric guitar?
The middle number just means different wood, and the last digit is the body shape
Not to long ago Koa was the cheap guitar wood. Now its priced as a luxury wood.
Please. It sounds like a big cigar box.