How would you design a guitar to commemorate 50 years of premium craftsmanship? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to stop by Sweetwater to check out Taylor’s 50th anniversary 914ce Builder’s Edition guitar 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Taylor_914ce_Builders_Edition
It's a beauty! I have worked with wood a lot. I think that I would build a neck that instead of the Dot inlays on top. I would make lines extending down through the back of the neck. That would be really cool. They could be inlays or on this guitar maybe another exotic wood inlay, maybe Zebra. I would incorporate maybe a drop D mechanism. Sweetwater customer Ed A.
The E2 need to be upgraded too I lke everything about this excepr the ES 2 very harsh I wish they came out without pick up I got mine 3 weeks a go I very dissapointed when plugged so I play mine unpliuggef
Unrivaled aesthetic. Unrivaled ergonomic design and I think those two features along with the quality tone will sell a lot of players. I've played and owned a lot of acoustic guitars, to my ears this body shape is just not the best sounding Taylor. I think that win goes to select models in the GP series and even then, it's not the most expensive delivering my favorite tone. That's the thing with guitars, you can put objective pricing on the labor and materials for things like inlays, exotic wood choices, labor to build a comfortable instrument but at the end of the day it's a tool to a person looking for a certain tone. I understand retailers and builders have a job to do to sell product, but I would encourage everyone in the industry to take a more honest, transparent position and stop selling the concept "pay more = get better tone". Tone is completely subjective and everyone knows this. So when I see a guitar that's obviously made very expensive for its specs I become very untrustworthy when a dealer or product vendor tries to sell me on "pay more = get better tone". Trust is just broken at that point, because the honesty is not there. Believe it or not, C.F. Martin does not project this message (you can find video of Chris Martin IV praising their 15 series as his favorite line). Gibson does not project this message. However, for some reason Taylor does project this message. That's really odd to me because, if you pick up a GS Mini, nothing really competes with it at its price point. Same thing with the 100-200 series. Amazing ROI, but tonal variation beyond that flatlines pretty quick for me with Taylor's. It's the great balanced tone you're either into or your not. For the asking price of a 900 series, there are models by boutique builders, some not Sweetwater brands so I will not list them here, but even C.F. Martin custom shop models have some much more going on with tonal dynamics, I'm talking about more natural scooped EQ range, simmering highs and clangy lows and if that's your thing and that is to be fair the definitive sound of great playing on historic recordings, Taylor is just not about that tone. They are doing the Taylor thing.... I think acoustic guitars are things of historic beauty and the best new guitars available today are the ones built the most traditional ways paying the most respect to the peek of the instrument in the mid to late 1940s. But I like that Taylor stands out in that they are trying to innovate and bring something different for players who want something different.
How would you design a guitar to commemorate 50 years of premium craftsmanship? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to stop by Sweetwater to check out Taylor’s 50th anniversary 914ce Builder’s Edition guitar 👉 sweetwater.sjv.io/Taylor_914ce_Builders_Edition
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It's a beauty! I have worked with wood a lot. I think that I would build a neck that instead of the Dot inlays on top. I would make lines extending down through the back of the neck. That would be really cool. They could be inlays or on this guitar maybe another exotic wood inlay, maybe Zebra. I would incorporate maybe a drop D mechanism.
Sweetwater customer Ed A.
The E2 need to be upgraded too I lke everything about this excepr the ES 2 very harsh I wish they came out without pick up I got mine 3 weeks a go I very dissapointed when plugged so I play mine unpliuggef
Unrivaled aesthetic. Unrivaled ergonomic design and I think those two features along with the quality tone will sell a lot of players. I've played and owned a lot of acoustic guitars, to my ears this body shape is just not the best sounding Taylor. I think that win goes to select models in the GP series and even then, it's not the most expensive delivering my favorite tone. That's the thing with guitars, you can put objective pricing on the labor and materials for things like inlays, exotic wood choices, labor to build a comfortable instrument but at the end of the day it's a tool to a person looking for a certain tone. I understand retailers and builders have a job to do to sell product, but I would encourage everyone in the industry to take a more honest, transparent position and stop selling the concept "pay more = get better tone". Tone is completely subjective and everyone knows this. So when I see a guitar that's obviously made very expensive for its specs I become very untrustworthy when a dealer or product vendor tries to sell me on "pay more = get better tone". Trust is just broken at that point, because the honesty is not there.
Believe it or not, C.F. Martin does not project this message (you can find video of Chris Martin IV praising their 15 series as his favorite line). Gibson does not project this message. However, for some reason Taylor does project this message. That's really odd to me because, if you pick up a GS Mini, nothing really competes with it at its price point. Same thing with the 100-200 series. Amazing ROI, but tonal variation beyond that flatlines pretty quick for me with Taylor's. It's the great balanced tone you're either into or your not. For the asking price of a 900 series, there are models by boutique builders, some not Sweetwater brands so I will not list them here, but even C.F. Martin custom shop models have some much more going on with tonal dynamics, I'm talking about more natural scooped EQ range, simmering highs and clangy lows and if that's your thing and that is to be fair the definitive sound of great playing on historic recordings, Taylor is just not about that tone. They are doing the Taylor thing.... I think acoustic guitars are things of historic beauty and the best new guitars available today are the ones built the most traditional ways paying the most respect to the peek of the instrument in the mid to late 1940s. But I like that Taylor stands out in that they are trying to innovate and bring something different for players who want something different.
Big words
Too bad most people can't afford them.
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This guitar sounds FAR better than this - surely? What did you record it with??
You can always plug it in to make it sound worse.
Where’s the bass 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢