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| Author: | curtis [ Thu May 10, 2007 6:39 pm ] |
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Hi - firstly - please move/ remove this post if its not really supposed to be here! I originally posted this on the Taylor AGF, but i've kind of been persuading myself to use rather than sell..but i could use some advice before i make my mind up. i have a Taylor 8 series neck that i either want to sell or use...obviously use would be preferable! someone asked me how i came to have it, my reply: it was the freakiest thing,
the board grain opened up around the 15th fret about 2 days after the guy took it home. you could almost fit a plectrum down there! I changed the neck as fast as we possibly could (the U.S and UK Taylor guys are awesome) and all was good. i kept an eye on the old neck in case we started to get more of this problem, that was approx 4 yrs ago and its been rock solid to this day. Bizarre, i wouldnt have believed it if i hadnt seen it with my own eyes. ( i should add the grain returned itself to its original perfect state) i've left the neck in slightly warm and cold, moist and dry conditions and its never happened again. i've been thinkng about sticking it on another taylor - like i say tho, finding a taylor body for sale is very rare... guess i'll keep looking! so - someone has asked me if they can buy it, but i think i'm a bit greedy (and kind of want to use it) so i guess what i'm really asking is Has anyone ever made a new body to fit a taylor neck, and how did it turn out? any pics of neck socket at the time would be hugely appreciated (i think i'm asking way too much here!!!)
all the best
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| Author: | crazymanmichael [ Thu May 10, 2007 11:57 pm ] |
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is it an older style butt joint bolt on with the glued fb extension or one of the newer bolt ons with the bolted tenon and fb extension? the older style neck would be easy to attach to a body built for a butt joint bolt on, again a straight forward operation. making the necessary mortices to matchup to the current neck joint would a lot more complicated. getting them to be as tight as the originals without a cnc and the original code is probably close to impossible. i believe the new style taylor neck is patented so there may be legal issues using it on a non-taylor body. actually even building the body with the required mortices would probably be a patent infringement. i haven't heard any tales of taylor pursuing any patent infringement suits but i know gibson and fender surely has. |
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| Author: | curtis [ Fri May 11, 2007 4:13 am ] |
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Thanks Michael, i totally agree the new joint would be out of the question, its the older style i have. I feel a bit odd about it as i wouldn't want anyone to really see it even as i wouldnt for a second want anyone to think that i was trying in anyway at all to pass the new guitar off as a taylor. its just occurred to me that anyone reading this may have had alarm bells ringing about that! we've all seen those kind of shenanigans before...nasty! its just that kind of 'sofa' guitar thing that i'd like to use it for....maybe i should just sell it to a guy who needs a new neck for his 814. hmmm. |
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| Author: | Bob Garrish [ Fri May 11, 2007 4:32 pm ] |
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Bob Taylor has too much class to sue anybody for adapting his ideas, unlike the people running some other guitar companies... The Taylor guys are about as luthier-friendly as a company can get. |
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