2010 Taylor 615CE Jumbo Guitar

A local customer received this guitar after his friend passed. It's not the best way to get a gift, but he's going to be putting this roadwarrior guitar back into service and gigging constantly, so perhaps it's the best way to honor the memory!

It's a 12-year-old Taylor jumbo in the J-200-ish tradition, with flamed maple back and sides, a big old 17" lower bout, and a big, full, thrummy sort-of voice. It needed a fret level/dress, hairline crack repairs, a neck reset, minor wiring repairs, and various other tweaks, but now that it's back in order it's playing spot-on, happy, and ready to go.

The best bit is that all of this got done in an hour and a half or so, rather than the egads-amount of time that it would take to service a normal-neck-joint guitar.

I'm honestly surprised at how well this guitar has held-up in Vermont, considering it was used at events pretty frequently. The dry winter air and super-humid, middle-of-summer air is hell on gigging guitars.