| Bob Taylor's exotic, heavily figured inset koa or walnut
top is a wood lover’s dream. The high-performance, Taylor Style I humbuckers
are a tone lover’s dream. Artistic, Mother-of-pear fretboard inlays and
on-edge Ivoroid binding around the body and headstock, with micro-purfling
up the fretboard, complete the high-end design detail on their new Custom
model solidbody electric guitar!
Most electrics either have a hard edge with binding
or sleek contouring. Taylor is able to integrate the two in a unique way,
because of the way they inset the guitar top into the body. This enables
them to define an edge with binding and then contour up to that edge. Their
forearm and cutaway contours are comfortable and especially beautiful with
elegant binding trim.
Insetting the top also allows them to use gorgeous,
exotic woods (like walnut burl used in high-end furniture design or luxury
cars) that otherwise can¹t be used on electrics; it would require
carving up a thick slab, which would be insanely expensive with woods of
this aesthetic value.
Chambering on electric bodies has been used primarily
to lighten the body weight. Taylor has applied their acoustic expertise
to chambering in order to create the optimal acoustic "bloom." This enhances
sustain, which is otherwise hard to create on an electric when everything
is locked down.
Even reckless rock 'n' rollers have to respect
the "blue spark" effect of getting shocked when grabbing the mic at a venue
with improper ground. Bob Taylor designed a fused string ground (wired
to the switch plate inside the guitar), so that in the event of faulty
ground or funky wiring, the 5-milliamp fuse will fry instead of you. If
the fuse blows, your guitar will still play, but it may be susceptible
to more noise until you can replace it, which is easy to do, especially
since you won¹t be in the hospital! |
