Posted 2016-04-07 8:58 AM (#524468 - in reply to #524466) Subject: RE: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: December 2014 Posts: 1713
Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota
I know that Ovation also did that kind of research, and gave that kind of dedication to the top woods (100 year old Sitka Spruce) and saving of these primeval forests too.
I like when the Company's can work together to help the planet, over the promise of money. I wish the Leaders of the World could do as well.
Thank you for sharing this Muzza!
And I know that allot of people recycle Taylor Guitar boxes, because every Ovation I get, comes in a Taylor Box... I don't know about their guitars, but they do make good sturdy boxes! LOL!!!
Posted 2016-04-07 2:49 PM (#524481 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: December 2005 Posts: 247
Location: Seacoast NH
Haha! My buddy just got a new Taylor a few months ago and I just noticed the box still lingering in his rehearsal space the other night!
I must say that 818e he has sounds and plays wonderfully...definitely overpriced, but I've been very impressed with the craftsmanship and quality on that thing. Very, very nice wooden box, although I'll never admit it to his face since we've been giving each other hard times about our respective love for "stringed planks" and "plastic near-guitars" for 2 decades now.
Posted 2016-04-08 12:59 AM (#524495 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: December 2015 Posts: 287
Location: Katmandu
Thanks a lot for posting that video, it was very educational. I didn't even suspect that ebony as a resource was in such dire straits as well, even though I've heard a lot from Ren Fergusson about the equally (?) dire situation for high-quality top tonal woods.
Posted 2016-04-08 3:35 AM (#524497 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: December 2004 Posts: 574
Location: Denmark
One of my 2nd hand Ovations came in a Taylor box as well. Maybe thats a common pattern. But I do own a Taylor box :-) The Ovation in the box has a fingerboard of "Ebony stained Rosewood". From a natural resource point of view I don't know if that is so much better. I have a fretless bass with a synthetic material fretboard, called "Ebonol". Another change which might affect the consumption of endangered woods in general would be if any of us only acquired the number of instruments that we actually need. But that would hardly be appraised by the instrument making industry. Back when I started playing it was like "I have an electric guitar and a bass" and we used the instrument at hand for playing country, jazz, blues, soul, pop or rock'n'roll. In present is seems common to have a specific instrument for each genre or whatever. Even I have a broken moral and have several guitars (Ovation collectors are protected in this context ;-) ) Maybe a total off topic comment, but even for a promo video appearance this Bob Taylor seems a nice person.
Posted 2016-04-08 3:36 PM (#524510 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: March 2005 Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho
I've received at least one used Ovation in a Taylor box as well, but I only kept a couple of Ovation boxes when we moved.
Today something arrived in a Taylor box that got me in big trouble. My wife called and accused me of ordering a guitar for my birthday (Monday, BTW, but just send cash). It wouldn't have been the first time, but this time I didn't know what she was talking about. She said she just picked up a guitar at the post office. Then she told me it was in a Taylor box. I swore I would never have bought a Taylor and then I remembered this thread. I asked her to look at the return address, but he box was in the back of the Pilot. I shouldn't have told her that I suspected Nancy was up to something. Of course, she wanted to know who Nancy was and why she would be sending me a guitar. (She swears that it feels like there's a guitar in there, but it's been years since she lifted a guitar in a box.) She's still driving around with whatever is in the Taylor box and I'm at work, so the mystery will be unresolved for a while.
Posted 2016-04-08 4:18 PM (#524512 - in reply to #524510) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: December 2014 Posts: 1713
Location: Frozen Tundra of Minnesota
Nope, that Taylor box is sitting down in the shop waiting for me to drag it upstairs, then out for recycling next Thursday! If it keeps snowing like it is, I am going to cut it open, and ride it down the hill first!!! LOL!!!
Posted 2016-04-09 6:05 AM (#524520 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535
Location: Flahdaw
Taylors have great necks, about as good as Ovation necks.
Good for them, trying to save the forests from decimation. A century from now, people will scratch their heads looking at the barren land and say, "we did all this just to make some guitars, most of which sit around peoples houses, unplayed?"
Posted 2016-04-09 12:35 PM (#524529 - in reply to #524466) Subject: Re: Something good from Taylor guitars.
Joined: January 2009 Posts: 4535
Location: Flahdaw
Yes, but pine trees are farmed and "mature" in about 10 years. Ebony...60 to 200 years, and ain't no one farming 'em. Ditto for Rosewood. Not sure about mahogany.
Something good from Taylor guitars.
I clicked the link and saw Nancy's photo of the box... 
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