The Taylor "Liberty Series" of guitars

[tim]

I feel honored that I can be the first to post in this forum. Even though I'm a bass player, (Can't you tell? My typing is horrible!) I take intrest in news about all types of stringed instruments.

I found the article about Taylor purchasing the wood from the last remaining "Liberty Tree" and used it to make a special line of acoustic guitars. After all, it would have been a shame to have permanently destroyed an great artifact that played an important role in early American history:


www.imagineguitars.com/archive/acoustic/014_taylor_ltg/

But it's also interesting to note, that after the proper pieces of wood not suited for acoustic building, Taylor then used the remnants to build the Liberty T-5 series.

www.taylorguitars.com/news/NewsDetail.aspx?id=32

Anyhow, I thought thies may be of interest (especially to you, Richard)

[Blues Dues]

Sept 23, 2009 18:26:29 GMT -5 tim said:

I feel honored that I can be the first to post in this forum. Even though I'm a bass player, (Can't you tell? My typing is horrible!) I take intrest in news about all types of stringed instruments.

I found the article about Taylor purchasing the wood from the last remaining "Liberty Tree" and used it to make a special line of acoustic guitars. After all, it would have been a shame to have permanently destroyed an great artifact that played an important role in early American history:


www.imagineguitars.com/archive/acoustic/014_taylor_ltg/

But it's also interesting to note, that after the proper pieces of wood not suited for acoustic building, Taylor then used the remnants to build the Liberty T-5 series.

www.taylorguitars.com/news/NewsDetail.aspx?id=32

Anyhow, I thought thies may be of interest (especially to you, Richard)

I had never heard of the "Liberty" tree and the guitar wood it gave up.

Interesting stuff. Thanks.

RCE

[rickc]

I had two of them, bought the first one for $5000 and sold it for $7000, then bought another one for $5000 but ended up selling that one for what I paid.

Great history and a great looking guitar but it didn't really sound all that great. It was Tulip Poplar, not a traditional guitar tonewood but I have some great pictures of it If I was a collecter rather than a player I would have kept it.

They also had a run of Baby Taylors using the same wood, Not cheap though!

[rickc]

#140 Kinda miss it

[tim]

i wonder what the going rate is on one now?

[rickc]

I've seen them for much less, too bad! but in a hundred years or so who knows!

[tim]

That's really interesting. I would have thought they would have held value better than that.

Even with the downswing in the economy, I'd think that there's lots of money out there, and these are rare to begin with, and there ain't gonna be no mo'

So....

[rickc]

Oh I think the time will come Tim when they will be worth a pretty penny, it's just not right now and I'm very impatient ;D