Newly built and easy to break

[Strumming Fool]

LOL!! 

> "My wife recommended maple, so that's what I did...."

SMART MAN!!!!!  (has nothing to do with the relative merits of your wood choices)

Well, I needed a tie-breaker, because it was split equally between rosewood and maple with the Taylor guys! In the final analysis, I'm glad I chose maple, because it really makes the other woods pop!

[Von Beerhofen]

I've heard that a newly built Taylor, say a BTO for instance, has to be kept at the same RH for the first 12 months in order for the wood to stabilize or something. True/false?

yep ...
if you don't keep it at exactly 49.5% RH (not 49.501 or 49.499%)
for the first year, it's quite possible that destabilization could occur -
like this

any questions
i didn't think so

Didn't you humidify your guitar Michael?

Brings back fond memories.
That's about how my first spanish guitar looked after refurbishing it with a single coil in the soundhole and then practising Pete Townsend's rotating arm strumming technique.
Those were the days!

Von Beerhofen

[michaelw]

LOL!! 

> "My wife recommended maple, so that's what I did...."

SMART MAN!!!!!  (has nothing to do with the relative merits of your wood choices)

Well, I needed a tie-breaker, because it was split equally between rosewood and maple with the Taylor guys! In the final analysis, I'm glad I chose maple, because it really makes the other woods pop!

the maple frames everything in quite well ... nice
koa would've looked ok too, i think

hmm ...  if macassar ebony was offered as a binding option, i wonder how that'd be

[Strumming Fool]

Koa binding is really nice- it's a slam-dunk on my next BTO!

[michaelw]

koa can also accent rosewoods pretty well, i think
cocobolo, in this case

[Strumming Fool]

Yeah, that's where I think I'm going...tobacco burst engelmann/EIR bound in koa...perhaps later this year!

[michaelw]

Yeah, that's where I think I'm going...tobacco burst engelmann/EIR bound in koa...perhaps later this year!

adi CV & gotohs
koa has a nice contrast with an ebony headstock overlay, imho

i wonder if a maple rosette would be an option with the tobaccoburst,
as it might visually 'pop' a bit more, although it wouldn't match the binding

maple purfling

or maple edge trim on the top (like on the current K2X series) could be cool, but
currently that option isn't shown yet - i wonder if it might  be on the next revision

[BigSkyTaylorPlayer]

Beautiful!!  I'm getting close to ordering an all-hog 12-string with maple binding and rosette.

[Strumming Fool]

Yeah, that's where I think I'm going...tobacco burst engelmann/EIR bound in koa...perhaps later this year!

adi CV & gotohs
koa has a nice contrast with an ebony headstock overlay, imho

i wonder if a maple rosette would be an option with the tobaccoburst,
as it might visually 'pop' a bit more, although it wouldn't match the binding

maple purfling

or maple edge trim on the top (like on the current K2X series) could be cool, but
currently that option isn't shown yet - i wonder if it might  be on the next revision

Definitely Adi and Gotohs. I agree that koa binding around an ebony headstock overlay would look great. I'm thinking of a single ring koa rosette with a koa bound soundhole. I have a koa rosette on my 514 with a honey burst top, and I love the way that looks. Here's a pic: