Wood & Steel Summer 2016

I haven't received my copy in the mail yet but received an email about the models. It will probably be a while before they show up in shops in my neck of the woods but the 400 series with rosewood peaked my curiosity. I would prefer a grand symphony (X16) size but perhaps the rosewood in the slightly smaller grand auditorium size would give the tone I am after.

Then again with the poor exchange rate for the Canuck buck that 414ce-R wiill be well over $2k I'm guessing, which is going make it an uncomfortable conversation with my wife if the GAS starts hitting hard.

I've signed up for Wood & Steel at 4 Taylor Road shows and have never received one. They must know I'll probably never buy a Taylor. Do they do a credit check?

Was just reading it a moment ago.  That neck article is fantastic and I learned a lot about Taylor approaches neck angle and their overall philosophy re the NT neck.  

I also learned something from Bob Taylor too in one of his responses to a customer about whether he should humidify his Taylor in the gig bag or get a hard case for it.  According to Bob, when you humidify in the hard wood case, you are also humidifying the case as well. He said they use three times the amount of wood in their cases as in their guitars. Therefore, there is a kind of "reserve" that helps humidify your guitar.  The gig bag, on the other hand, does not have this ability and so it's good to keep this in mind when considering storing/humidifying your guitar in a gig bag.  

CaliGull, that was one of the only other parts of that issue I read too!  I like knowing the difference in issues with specific cases.  Actually makes me feel a lot better about gig bags ( the good quality ones that is ) and I really like Taylor and Godin's padded gig bags.  Probably the two best out there imho.

In fact, the Taylor gig bags that come with their higher end guitars are "almost" as good as hard cases.  Not quite, but they're the best gig bags I've seen for the money.  Others that are it's equal or better are very expensive.  Also, for a lot of Taylors, those nice gig bags are included, which is nice.