Question about Taylor Model Numbers

[Strumming Fool]

A "CE" model will always have the cutaway, though...

That's exactly what I mean. The cutaway is always a cutaway while the non-cutaway is always a non-cutaway. I believe that customers should have a choice regardless of whether they choose a guitar from the "ce" line or the pure acoustic line. That way, people can get the visual appointments they like, with or without a cutaway. Before the pure acoustic line was introduced, this option was possible. Below is an example: my 2001 514 without a cutaway, with electronics (it used to have a Fishman, but now it has the ES retrofit), and with a honey sunburst-finished engelmann top....



Taylor could change the name of the ce series to "deluxe" and change the name of the pure acoustic series(or non-cutaway as they call it today) to "standard" so that people could either pay more for bling or pay less for an understated look. The cutaway should be an option, not a "given". I'll let this go now, and hope that Taylor listens to me or others with the same opinion.

[Steve]

Well, again, you can't please everyone.

The reality is that you can get the guitar you want. You can get the appointments you want.

You just get to pay for it,and there's not a single thing wrong with that.

Specs change. That's simply a fact of the industry. I can remember people saying that Taylor should've kept the old 800 Series diamond inlays for no other reason than they liked it, so it should be offered at no additional charge.

Well, that's just not how the business works.

Ain't capitalism grand?