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BK - My 614 is close to the edge of needing the neck re-set shim. I have to babysit the truss rod and saddles more than another other. I brought it to a taylor authorized shop. He agreed, but then wanted me to do this system that goes inside and remains adjustable by me. It's some sort of wooden dowel that goes from the back to the top and raises/lowers the top and hence, the bridge. Nothing wrong with my top, he says, but essentially gives me an adjustable bridge, he says. I ask about tone. Might not even notice, he says, or something like that. Um - no thanks. I had every intention of bringing it across county to the better tech dude, but that will have to wait a while. What I REALLY wish for, though, is that Taylor wiould sell the shim kits to the general public. I understand why not, but still.

Nice playing! It's amazing, in hindsight, just how timely a good hobby can be.

Nice! Thanks for posting. Did he have a truss rod sytem put into this? The truss-rod cover was odd looking, plus I had always thought they did not do them during the war.(?)

I was somewhere in between. His earlier stuff was cool, I thought. Then I saw the contrived and scripted laid-back speak being poorly acted or otherwise phoned in one too many times. Now I don't know what to believe, so I don't bother. I did this one for a little while, though, as it's a topic I enjoy. Kind of dipping my toes back in. It didn't take.

Very nice, EA. I enjoyed it. You and Sal turned me onto two songs I've not heard and it's not even lunch time yet. 😎

Nice, yet again, Sal!

It's Martin Week here until tomorrow. Then it's SJ-200 Week!!!!! 🙂 My what I'm playing is my usual pre-2k pop-rock-country-blues mixture. Most recently, as of 20m minutes ago, it was "Running of Faith". After a short break and loaded up into Notepad is "Lay Down Sally", and will probably chase it with "Magnolia" as performed by the guy that wrote it to begin with.

Thanks, billroy. The whole studio experience has changed for me. Being able to hear everything is golden. This track is "enjoying" the benefits of me getting warm tones out of my system. It's got a fairly aggressive build up of the warm low-mids going on just because I could not get and hear them for years. I mixed this sans reference tracks just because I had a sound I had to get out of my system. Now I need to dial it back a little. This one's for me. 🙂 I will see it through ti a Mastered state, so to speak, and try some post-mixing totnal corrections to make it fit the more bright radio sound. It will be educational for me in the very least. Yes, the song is "Hurricane Blues", previously "Rain Blues". I think I recorded that using a Lap Steel directly plugged into an amp sim. I think I want to do it on a Dobro with a Mic. The vocals is the biggest thing I want to re-do, though. I think next, though, might be the song, "Good Morning". I think I remember us talking about that one last year. I've got 60 originals done, all with the old studio acoustics sound going. Of the 60, I've got maybe 25-30 that I want to redo. I've got at least that many songs in a mostly written state, waiting for me to on. One of them in particular has been nagging at me for 5-6 years, called the "The Battle of Bellows Falls". At any rate, I've got two 12-song albums in mind. That'll keep me busy. LOL

This is why I went through all of this work, time and expense this winter.. This song is is after about 7- weeks of re-learning everything from tracking to mixing. The room came out big. Lots of warm tones that I ever imagined I'd ever get I used a song from last year to learn the room again. I'll post the old version below, if you want to hear the difference. So here it is. Me on everything except for the canned drums application called Superior Drummer 3. I start a sort of a Mastering process on Monday. I'll start working on 24 or so old songs in hopes of having a collection of songs I could call an album. We'll see. I the meantime, I'd love to hear ny notes and thoughts you might have to help me get to that next level. PS- this is pre-Mastering and is about 6db shy, so may need to turn your cans up a couple notches. Thanks! And this is the version this past year; Just horrible. Ugh!!!

Nice Video, again - Thanks!

Very nice collection! Fun to look at. More fun to play and enjoy, I bet.

So I've got a question on how these guitars ring out on the D-chords. It's something I've always wondered, and this video has a nice quality wound to it that makes it easy to hear. The timestamps for the strums are 1:59 for the 2013, and the 0:18 for the 1946 model. This may take a decent set of headphones to hear. So the 1946 model rings out very much how I might expect a guitar to ring out, though it may have gotten a bit off towards the end. The 2013 rings out with a more 'complex' resonant sound. In my mind, I hear the 1946 as one solid unit ringing as one solid unit might. On the 2013, I hear what sounds like more things on the guitar are contributing to the sound. My question is this. Is either of them wrong, or considered a slight imperfection? I do not mean to imply defect, btw. Is this something that decreases as guitars age? What do you folks' more experienced ears tell you on this? JC - Thanks for posting all these great pictures and video finds you discover. I enjoy them.

A moose once bit my sister. edit: The irony is that this was the very first guitar lesson my wife ever watched, circling back to billroy's thread. 🙂 One of the funny memories from when my Son was a wee lad was when he discovered the item in his left hand, when beaten on a steel shovel, sounded like a bell. I'm two stories up on a ladder taking down holiday decorations when my 4-year old walks through the yard with his clanking device yelling out "Bring out your dead!!!" Good times.

I've gotta agree. I know they claim to reserve the better cuts for the 40-series and blah de yadi yadi yada yada crapola. I despise marketing spin more than is probably healthy. But yeah, wow. I was nervous for the first few days, though. LOL 5 months later and "wow" is all I can say. All this while my Hummingbird is coming into it's own. Going back and forth between them in one sitting is an experience of pure guitar joy.

End of Summer would mean the World of Blue Grass festival in downtown Raleigh would be good to go. I had to miss last years due to crooked contractor. https://worldofbluegrass.org/wide-open-bluegrass/ Good times.

...and Merlefest is cancelled this year.

Right on, man! Kudos!

It is impressive. I remember it, too, but it was partial nerves, too, hoping it wasn't a dud until it opened up. The 'Bird and SJ-200 each sounded better from the beginning. It caught up, though. 🙂 I am very pleased with my small stable.

Mine dabbled a teensy bit in piano about 20 years ago. She's got her own things. Jewelry making, colroring books with markers/pens and a few online video games (or whatever they are called these days). Once a year or so, she looks at something with lifted eye, but ultimately decides not to. One time it was a cajon in a store, another time it was my bongos. I swear she's looked at my uke a time or two. She denies, and I DO NOT PUSH. No sir-ree. Not this kid. Nope. I'd sooner sandpaper a wild-cat's *** in a phone booth than to try to push her into doing something. A true story. I "tested" something once. I had my laptop open as she was up and about and made sure she saw the guitar product page I was on. This was right after getting my SJ-200, so she had every right to wonder WTF I was looking at and why, Her response was - measured. A day or two later, it was naughty pictures. VERY naughty pictures. The response was, in a much happier tone "oooooooo, what have you got there?". FWIW, she was totally supportive in my recent studio build and the D-41, both of which started happening within a year of the SJ-200 purchase. Also, I have referred to the pretty pics on wildwood as an online museum, and am sure to point out anything I see with abalone. Sooo, I can surf guitar stuff just as freely as naughty pics. LOL (well, I think so, anyhow. Been some times since the latter....cough cough)

Merle Fest in North Carolina is everything you describe from my understanding.

I know it might be overpriced for what it is, but this is a great lower strap button lock for the LR Baggs equipped output jacks. Take a little bit of effort to cut out the hole to fit, but it's worth it to me. http://www.marcusdanielsluthiery.com/purchase/

Congratulations on your latest addition to the stable. Mine keeps getting better and it's only been less than 2 years. Good times!

Congratulations on your score! A few weeks of new guitar discovery is usually a fun time. 😎

Does the nice tone and controlled volume characteristics apply across all production years, or is it just vintage models or certain construction processes and materials?

I'm a little late to the game, but I really dig the guitar you landed on and your original tune. Like zombywoof alluded to, it was quite interesting and enlightening to see and head one played so far up the neck and sound so nice. Anyhow, a big, almost 2-month congratulations are in order. One particular round of kudos for parlaying all of that search effort and patience to the big reward at the end of your search. Some people have a knack for finding things like this. Most of us have to work for it. I'm impressed. I feel compelled to post a note of agreement with everything you wrote on this.