Taylor 414ce acoustic

Just bought this baby yesterday and set it up for DADGAD tuning. Looks like I'll be eating toast for a few months, but that's OK. Between this one and the Larrivee I own, I can cover some musical ground. Not bragging here, just excited and feeling very creative.

Thanks Frank. What's on your wish-list man????

Hey Frank,

I have a GS - went with the Cedar/Mahogany w/ expression system. AMAZING guitar - you will be happy with whatever model you choose, I can assure you.

I play a lot of fingerstyle - and cedar just sounded better to me. Cedar as a soundboard is very warm and mellow and bodes well for that type of work.

Another reason I went with cedar is that I also have a 510 which has an spruce top with mahogany back/sides. So, no reason to have two guitars so similar. Another thing with spruce is that it really takes a while for it to age and sound 'great', IMHO. My 510 is 10+ years old and sounds better every time I play it - in short, spruce gets better with age and cedar is pretty much the same from the time you play it. Cedar is a very soft wood so on non-lacquered tops, you have to very careful - picks will destroy them. The GS has a nice finish, so you won't have to worry about that.

There's two cedar topped GS models - rosewood and mahogany back/sides. If you like cedar tops - it's just a matter of playing them both to figure out which one you like better. I just thought the mahogany was a bit brighter with longer sustain. The Rosewood had a little better low end though. An example, and I know this for sure - a lot of bluegrass rhythm players prefer rosewood/spruce guitars. If you play acoustic 'lead' and want to cut through a mix, many folks prefer mahogany/? guitars.

There's a few video's on Taylor's site here: http://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/archive/2006/GS/Videos.aspx

Vince Gill had one of my favorite guitar quotes. He said:

"It takes 10 years for a guitar to quit thinking like it's a tree."

Good Luck - I played one of these when it first came out and knew I would own one. Just took me a while to figure out which one.

I would be drooling too. Someday I would luv to take a tour of one of these manufacturer facilities.

ORIGINAL: Jessie Sammler

Taylors sound great. If I were serious about acoustic guitars, they'd be on my short list. I think a $1,900 Taylor makes at least as much sense as a $1,900 Jackson.

For some reason I can justify in my mind paying that much for an acoustic but not an electric, an acoustic just seems harder to make or something. LOL !

Or, it might be that I can build my own electric guitar from parts if I want to so it doesn't seem like that big a deal. Kinda like looking at modern art, if I can do it.. it's not art. LOL !! I can't build an acoustic guitar so I apply more value to it.