Taylor 810 Solid Wood Or Laminated

A laminated top might have but if it was stiff enough to prevent that it would have sounded very dead.

Taylor 810 solid wood or laminated. If it doesn t make the guitar unplayable or mess with intonation it is nothing to worry about. One of the widely recognized distinguishing features of a premium or professional grade acoustic guitar is the use of solid wood panels for the top back and sides. 20070311301 9th digit is a series code number 0 for 300 or 400 series 1 for 500 thru presentation series 2 for 200 series 3 for a baby 4 for a big baby 5 for t5 7 for nylon. While layered woods won t produce quite as complex a sound as solid woods they allow us to blend exotic looks with climate resilient construction.

Do i have a wrong serial 3 or is taylor website wrong. Layered koa like taylor s other layered wood options layered koa features an all wood laminated construction in this case with an exterior layer of beautifully figured koa veneer and an. One thing you won t find me doing is looking down on laminates as a whole other than looking down on badly made instruments as a whole. Laminated b s would have have impacted that at all.

As we ll learn the rest of any acoustic guitar might be solid or layered. Laminated guitars offer a reliable sturdy platform for the guitar as it is less affected by changes in temperature and humidity factors which can alter the tone of the solid construction guitar. Plugged in the taylor really starts to move ahead of the pack. If it were metallic laminated would ring less than solid.

Also code on taylor website says that the 9th number designates model 3 baby not big baby. So in that respect the laminated back and sides will vibrate a little less and reflect more sound back into the box. Sure i own many solid wood ukuleles some at the very high end and given the choice and budget i would always buy them but i also have laminate instruments too. Solid wood construction tends to express a wood s tonal personality in the fullest most complex way resulting in a superior musical sound.

The answer is they don t really sound different. Solid wood guitars do not contain laminated layered wood so as an example if you own a solid top acoustic martin d18 the top is all solid wood not layered in any way. I recently bought a 2012 spring ltd taylor gs mini rosewood and i was wondering how the wood laminates in the gs mini spring limited series or the standard mini can sound different if they are all just laminate back and sides with maple rosewood blackwood or sapele veneer. Laminated wood is typically stiffer than many solid woods but has more internal damping.