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Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Taylor Acoustic & Electric Guitars => Topic started by: ronmcc4 on November 17, 2014, 10:09:30 PM
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The 324ce-K FLTD I ordered last Friday found its new home today! It looks even better to me than the pics on the website indicated. I am thrilled with the wood, the finish, and the tone. Just a wonderful instrument I am blessed to own. :D
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/BC08133D-01DD-4003-A468-296FBD8B412A.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/2D391DCA-7E2F-494A-B276-9A506715AA88.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/40ED5644-6553-48B3-B2FC-1DBF3FDDB10E.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/7D76262E-36B3-4F72-8C7E-204B2743D634.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/5833FF77-D5A5-4936-A60A-F15DC7DAC737.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/B0AD2636-9BFB-4622-B404-77AB6EBFA489.jpg)
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I love my Koa 326.....congratulations on your new Koa!
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(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/2D391DCA-7E2F-494A-B276-9A506715AA88.jpg)
(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p61/ronmcc4/324ce-K/40ED5644-6553-48B3-B2FC-1DBF3FDDB10E.jpg)
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congrats, ron :)
& thanks for sharing the pics 8)
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Very nice, Ron! I have yet to see a Koa guitar that wasn't a looker! Congratulations!
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Congrats. Y'all are killin' the Koa 'round here. 8)
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Does the three piece back make a huge tonal difference?
I've always been leary of those.
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Does the three piece back make a huge tonal difference?
I've always been leary of those.
Hard to say - comparing it to my others is like apples and oranges of course. Mine does have a three piece back but I certainly don't hear a tonal deficiencies. It is different than my 512e 12-fret and the 414ce I had. That's to be expected of course. I guess the real answer is "I don't know." ;)
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Welcome to the koa club. These Taylor koas are special. Yours is beautiful....I especially like the light/dark wood in the center on the front and the streaked fretboard. You picked a real winner. Congrats!
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Great looking guitar! I really like that three piece back. Congrats!
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Does the three piece back make a huge tonal difference?
I've always been leary of those.
My 656ce has a three-piece back, and to me it's tone is indistinguishable from a 'standard' two-piece 656ce that I played.
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Congratulations Ronmcc4. So now your part of the Koa club. Your is very nice, I like the way they matched up the top wood, and the fingerboard is cool.
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Love that streaked fretboard...and the rest is pretty nice too! Congrats!
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Very nice! Welcome to the Taylor Koa Appreciation Society!
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Congrats Ron!!! Love the three piece back and fretboard!..A real looker! Enjoy 8)
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Indeed, congrats! I'm sure it sounds great, but aesthetically that's a really nice one, IMHO. I'm personally not a real fan of the "streaked" fingerboards, but your fingerboard works perfectly with the aesthetic "theme" of the entire top and headstock ...really nice, enjoy! :)
Edward
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Does the three piece back make a huge tonal difference?
I've always been leary of those.
According to Bob Taylor, a three piece back makes no difference in sound. What's interesting is the website list the 324CE-k FLTD as a two piece back yet mine is a three piece and it seems the ones mentioned here are also 3 pieces. Here's a link to Bob talking about it at 9 min 50 secs in :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF6JP1WV6Xw&list=PL67B31A5CE0F0D4E1&index=1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF6JP1WV6Xw&list=PL67B31A5CE0F0D4E1&index=1)
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The difference between a three piece back and a two piece would be pretty hard to compare. First off to get a good comparison you wood have to come up with two guitars that are made from the stock of wood, and of course the same specs. Maybe Bob Taylor has done this. I have owned a couple of three piece back Martins, the M36, but I could not tell you if it sounded different than a two piece back, they don't make a M-36 in a two piece back.
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... What's interesting is the website list the 324CE-k FLTD as a two piece back yet mine is a three piece and it seems the ones mentioned here are also 3 pieces...
The same thing happened with the 400-Series Spring Limited guitars (all-gloss Ovangkol); although the web site indicated they were all two-piece backs with seemingly no option otherwise, many 416 and 456 guitars arrived at dealers with three-piece backs.
The Taylor web site is notorious for it's 'shortcomings' when it comes to accurate/non-ambiguous information on guitar specifications/options; I think this is probably just another minor example of that...