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Title: Wood & Steel
Post by: mgap on October 20, 2016, 12:19:37 AM
Great day today.  In the mail came volume 86.  Yes my Fall issue came.  It must be the earliest I have received it.  How about everybody else, have you received yours yet?

Wow.  Limited Edition Showcase in this issue.
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: woodnut on October 20, 2016, 12:22:32 AM
Got mine yesterday.
Have no idea who the bearded one is, but some nice looking Taylors grace the pages.
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: NavyChap on October 20, 2016, 12:50:59 AM
Haven't received mine yet  :(
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: Minnesotaman on October 20, 2016, 11:19:33 AM
Got mine yesterday also.
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: NavyChap on October 20, 2016, 05:39:06 PM
Hmmm, Taylor or USPS is probably servicing the west cost before the middle states and then us poor folks on the east cost are last in line  :(
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: Strumming Fool on October 20, 2016, 06:43:40 PM
Got my 2 copies yesterday (one for me and my GAs and one for my wife and her GS Mini). Been so busy that I haven't even opened one yet!
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: ds_holz on October 21, 2016, 05:15:56 PM
My playing isn't worthy of that koa confection but ... jaw drop ... I'm not sure I've ever seen such beautiful fretboard inlay. Even my hubby said "Have you seen this?!" It is the best thing I have received in the mail in a long time!
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: NavyChap on October 22, 2016, 01:09:10 AM
Mine arrived today
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: michaelw on October 22, 2016, 03:07:40 AM
not sure exactly when mine hit the mailbox, but i got
a chance to look at it yesterday (it's tomorrow now) -
416ceFLTD cedar/walnut = big time GAS :o

the grand orchestras will be available with a florentine cutaway,
so i reckon i'll be on the lookout, some time or other, for a 418ce-r


Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: mgap on October 22, 2016, 07:32:36 AM
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416ceFLTD cedar/walnut = big time GAS :o

In 2006 they came out with a Sitka/walnut combination.  It was a Fall Ltd.  I had it in a 414e. The Sitka/Walnut pairing was pretty good but it had a little to much in the high end.  That was easily compensated with different strings, and I like the guitar.  In 2006 it had a satin finish, this year it is finish with gloss.  Fast forward to 2016 and now a pairing with Cedar/Walnut and I think I could really love this guitar.     
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: Strumming Fool on October 22, 2016, 10:08:21 AM
I'm also a walnut lover. I 've got two at home - a cedar/black walnut GA and an Adi/claro walnut GA.  They are both tonally stellar, and the walnut is so pretty in its natural finish - lots of color/shade variation, browns, reds and even iridescent grays besides the occasional sap wood streaks. Truly magical guitars!
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: TaylorGirl on October 22, 2016, 01:33:41 PM
Ooooooo....walnut. I have 5 walnut dulcimers and 2 walnut native American flutes. I guess I've expressed my love for walnut with other instruments.

Nice offering by Taylor.
Title: Re: Wood & Steel
Post by: TaylorGirl on November 01, 2016, 12:39:40 PM
Got my W&S yesterday. Got it all read already, as I'm nursing a pinched nerve in my back. Feel lazy, but at least I got a good read!  ;)