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My Son In law brought over a guitar that he claims is a Taylor kit guitar.
For the life of me I can't find a reference to Taylor ever offering a kit.
The head shape looks like a Taylor but there is no head plate.
The linings are laminated .
The neck joint is a butt joint with (4) 6mm wood dowels.
I think its a knock off but before I open my my big mouth I thought I would ask y'all.
Thanks
Dave

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I think the wood dowel neck joint is a give away. That would only come from the orient.

I'm no Taylor expert, Dave - but it can't be true....

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It is probably a "Taylor" kit in the same sense as you have Chibson, PRS, Tele, Strat kits, etc. If things have gotten tougher with Customs they may figure kits are a safer bet than counterfeit guitars.
People buy the kits, evaluate the components and make upgrades where they feel necessary.

Call Taylor's customer service, they ought to know.

I saw one of those a while back in 2018. It's chinesium

Taylor does make kits but they are dreds and are used in the STWM program and not for the general public . As stated before dowels are a dead giveaway for the cheap chinese kits

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