Any other Taylor owners on the BBS?

Sorry Tony: Martin HD-28, and I wouldn't switch for anything.

It seems everyone I know is going with Taylors, but I just like the way my guitar plays and sounds. One of the greatest feelings is getting to play everyday on the nicest acoustic guitar I've ever laid my hands on.

And for you people out there who can't believe the price, if you bought an Empeg at the retail price you should understand: some toys are worth it. I've found that the price break of $2,000 is the difference between an acoustic guitar that will get the job done and one you will cherish all of your remaining days.

And for the interested, here's a link to my guitar:
http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=m&m=HD-28&PHPSESSID=34852a65b64f460ef8450497215734cb

I should note that the $2959.00 figure listed is (as with all musical instruments) a bit high. IIRC I walked out the door at closer to $2,100. I also knew the salesman well, but I'm under no illusion that I got a great deal. Never let anyone sell you a guitar at anything close to list price; actually, I've found they hardly even try anymore.

Soon after the purchase I added a fishman pickup at a cost of about $200 (with an external transducer), so I suppose that brings to total cost up to about $2,300 for my current setup.

Also Tony, I'll mention that I don't use anything other the Elixir strings on my guitar, though for tone reasons I don't go any lower than medium-light.

Any other Taylor owners on the BBS?

Well...I bought a Baby Taylor for the 5year old...does that count?

I suppose I can't be too astonished. I own 4 saxophones (about 6 over my playing career), and those get quite expensive as well. My alto cost about as much as your guitars, and my tenor was quite a bit more (for those who know, it's a silver plated Mark VI).

Instruments are worth it.

Also Tony, I'll mention that I don't use anything other the Elixir strings on my guitar, though for tone reasons I don't go any lower than medium-light.

Yeah, agreed about the tone. This guitar is supposed to have 12's, and the salesman handed me a pack of 10's and said he was "sure they were the right gauge".

What's the difference between a guitar salesman and a car salesman? The car salesman knows when he's lying.

Well...I bought a Baby Taylor for the 5year old...does that count?

Yes.

I just added one of these to my collection that also includes an old Fender Strat and a Les Paul. Unfortunately, a pretty serious shoulder injury has kept me from playing during the past year or so. Hopefully the new axe will motivate me to do some more rehab so I can get back to playing soon.

Ooooo... Setzer is God... The tone from those hollow-body guitars is insane. <drool>

Cool...although I didn't give the coupla grande you forked over it did cost a few hundero...

My latest toy would be the Gibson faded "V"

He says that every vehicle that gets traded in, no matter how many miles on it, according to the customer it's always highway miles.

At least when I said this, it seemed plauasable to the sales people. I did manage to put almost 40k on the car in 2.5 years. And of course the service records could track every one of my roadtrips, since I was usually there a few days after getting back for oil changes and such.

I have always found sales people treat their customers much better when they act like they just want to buy the object and get out. Hell, my second sales guy at Saturn was offering me discounts, not the other way around .

(I've been told on a couple occasions that I could sell [censored] on a stick).

Say, I might be interested in buying some of that from you. Do you allow shipping to an address different from the billing address?

No Taylors I'm afraid, most of mine are solid bodied electrics (Charvel, Jackson, Ibanez, Gibson and some cheap ones for drunken jams) but I do have a couple of Eko's and a Fender CG-24 which all sound pretty nice.

I do like the Taylor sound, but as 80% of my playing is on electrics, I could only justify that sort of price once ... mmm, my sweet Ibanez

When I win the lottery.....

but as 80% of my playing is on electrics

Once upon a time, I would have agreed with you. But the stuff I'm playing and the places I'm playing it have changed. I've already got the expensive electric rig, and I hardly ever play it lately. Once upon a time, it gigged regularly. Now it collects dust. I've been seriously considering ebaying it all. Can't bring myself to do it yet...

Heh, I think I'm going the opposite direction. I don't even own an electric right now, though that will change soon. The stuff I play is mostly folk-acoustic style, but I plan to start branching out and adding electric guitars, at least in the studio.

I play an electric right now (cheap DeArmond, aka Guild import) through a Behringer amp, and it's nice... (I a blues/folk/rock kinda guy) But I'd like to get away from it and buy an acoustic. I seem to spend a lot of time sitting around in other rooms without it plugged in, and something I could play at my friend's easily would be nice too.

Need mo money. I'll probably start playing a lot more when I ditch my roommates and move out on my own again. Great boredom cure. That means I'll just break down and buy one.