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R Taylor Style 1 Cocobolo / Swiss Alpine Spruce


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With dramatic, eye-popping grain patterns, cocobolo is one of R Taylors favorite tonewoods. Big and bold sounding, it imparts a beautiful musicality to every note and is a perfect choice for those looking for an excellent all-around guitar. A very dense species, Taylor typically build thier cocobolo guitars with slightly thinner backs and sides.

Whatever your playing style, these guitars yield tremendous dynamic range with superb
balance, nuance, and clarity.

.......... Cocobolo

With dramatic, eye-popping grain patterns, cocobolo is one of our favorite tonewoods. Big and bold sounding, it imparts a beautiful musicality to every note and is a perfect choice for those looking for an excellent all-around guitar. A very dense species, we typically build our cocobolo guitars with slightly thinner backs and sides.

...........Swiss Alpine "Moon" Spruce

Found in the Swiss Alps at altitudes between 4,000 and 6,000 feet, this rare, slow-growing species (Picea Abies) is light in color and weight, but rigid and close-grained, making it unbelievably responsive.

Felled only during the winter and before a new moon, it is stored at high altitude for at least a year before milling–the same traditional cutting method used by the famous violin makers of Europe.

There’s no question that fervent attention to detail yields a superior guitar. One strum is all it takes to reveal it. Even one look promises that you’re in for something good. Welcome to R. Taylor Guitars.

The R. Taylor studio is housed in a separate building on the campus of Taylor Guitars. Here, five craftsmen work to build a handful of guitars each week. Each luthier has a minimum of ten years experience at Taylor, and each possesses the skill and the will to bring a guitar to life in a special way that cannot normally be done. Starting with the finest woods available in the world, we thoughtfully lay out the parts, weigh and measure, and design a plan, drawing upon our depths of experience. What top geometry or bracing alteration will work on this striped ebony back and sides? How do we work with cocobolo to fashion a fingerstyle instrument for one customer and a strummer for another? This is what we do with each of the three hundred or so guitars we will make in a year. The extra attention to detail means a lot more labor hours spent on each guitar. But we believe it’s worth it. We’re confident you will, too. — Robert Taylor

The R Taylor Story

I’ve been building guitars for three and a half decades, and even though my factory has grown large, I’ve personally made thousands of guitars. One at a time. There is something so gripping about painstakingly making a guitar—a single guitar—and putting attention into every detail, sandpaper and chisel in hand. A luthier never tires of this.

With the resources of Taylor Guitars at my fingertips, I decided to start a new company that makes guitars in this fashion. One by one, with no detail too small. The quantity, almost by definition, is small because the talent needed to make guitars in this way is very rare and needs to be fostered in a small shop environment.

What resources, you ask? Well, after more than 30 years in business, Taylor Guitars has amassed an unimaginable supply of wood; it’s the best in the industry. The incredible craftspeople and the experience they’ve gained over the years are, in my opinion, beyond compare.

Then there is the choice of the finest dealers the market has to offer. All this at my fingertips, and catalyzed by an abiding love of guitar making and fine craftsmanship. Imagine running a small guitar shop that can go next door to a place like Taylor Guitars and “borrow a cup of sugar,” free of charge.

I’d like to mention the craftsmen working hand in glove with me on this. First, there is Larry Breedlove, my nearly life-long partner in design, and our young colleague Ed Granero. The three of us make up the design wellspring. When I arrived at The American Dream guitar shop in 1973 as an 18-year-old guitar builder, I worked beside a bench already occupied by Timothy Luranc. Tim still works with me today! He has now transferred to the R. Taylor shop. Tim does all the final assembly of the guitars along with any customer repair work, and even though he finished guitars for years on end, he gets a break from that pursuit now. The gorgeous finish on the guitars is proudly applied by Josh Carter. Josh has been finishing guitars at Taylor for ten years, and having finished literally thousands of guitars, he’s at the top of his game.

Bodies and necks are made by Keith Greenwood and Eric Larson, each 10-year veterans who were literally chosen out of a selection of 300 craftspeople. These guys are good! Guitar orders are supervised by product manager and sales manager, John DiMaggio. John came here exclusively for R. Taylor and has a lifetime of experience around guitars.

This is my guitar-building dream team, and the people who will make your R. Taylor guitar if you are ever of a mind to order one. I invite you to read on and learn more about the company and the guitars.

Robert Taylor

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Condition	New
Cat#:	8865
Market Price:	~~$7749.00~~
Price:	AU$6,199.00

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