Taylor Guitars Road Show - Gand Music & Sound

Wayne Johnson inspects an x14ce guitar

with a florentine cutaway, ES electronics,

Sinker Redwood top and Macassar Ebony back & sides

Wayne tries out one of the new Solid Body Taylors

Dave Hager shows off a cutaway version

of a GS body with ES electronics inside

Dana Behl works on a neck reset

Dana shows the proper technique

for restringing a guitar

Last night, I attended the Taylor Guitars Road Show which was held at Gand Music & Sound in Northfield, IL.

Wayne Johnson who had played with The Manhattan Transfer for many years was on hand to help demonstrate various Taylor guitars and also to help unveil the new solid body electric guitars that Taylor Guitars will be offering very soon.

Taylor's regional sales manager, Dave Hager and Taylor Guitars repair technician Dana Behl were there as well to help explain the various technologies offered by Taylor.

The new solid body electric guitars look very promising. This is a new venture for Taylor and they have high hopes for it. A couple of years ago, Taylor started making electric guitars with the introduction of the now legendary T5 model which is a hollow body guitar. The new solid bodies have a lot of competition but I think these models will do just fine in the marketplace. To see more photos from the Road Show, click here.

Photo notes: These images were taken with just the ambient light at the store. The Fuji S5 pro was set for both aperture priority and manual modes depending on what was being shot. A strong floodlight was directly over Wayne Johnson which confused the camera's aperture priority mode. Switching to manual mode saved the day. (Exposures: ISO 1600, f2.8 and various shutter speeds which hovered around 1/80 second to 1/125 second.) Lenses used: Nikon 70-200mm f2.8 VR and Tamron 17-50mm f2.8 XR DII SP.