laxpatrick's Full Review: Taylor Big Baby Acoustic Guitar
I'm a fan of Taylor guitars. The neck feels just right and the brightness and sustain still give me chills.
But I'm scared to take my guitar out of the house. No dings, no damage from being outside the womb that is the humidified bombproof Taylor case.
What if I want to actually play somewhere else?
I spent a lot of time looking for the right "beater" guitar - you know, one that wouldn't send me into hysterics the first time I put a ding in it. One that would handle the variabilities of climate - both humidity and temperature.
I looked at Ovations, I looked at Alvarez, Seagull, and many more. I played the Taylor Baby, which reminded me of a Ukelele in appearance as well as sound. Then I tried the Big Baby.
The neck felt just right - it was oh so familiar. The trademark Taylor brightness was there. The sustain - well, let's face it - it's a $400 or so guitar. Bottom line, it had some life to it.
Oh, bass? You want it all? For a standard guitar review, I'd beat it up in this category, but it's a 15/16 plywood body guitar. It's a matter of physics - it does all it can do.
And that's good enough for my purposes - traveling with the guitar and playing for friends around campfires and other situations which lack the environmental controls that my "Big" Taylor demands. It's great to slip into the gig bag and zip off to a lesson as well.
I appreciate the solid spruce top and the construction seems solid enough for my requirements. The overall user interface (neck, strings, etc.) is quite familiar and for the Taylor fan it's a gimme.
Cons? I covered the mediocre bass. Construction is clean, but I worry about how this thing's going to take the beatings. The aesthetics of having two screw showing through the fretboard where the neck connects to the body are questionable. It looks a bit questionable.
The Taylor Big Baby Acoustic Guitar, the Baby Taylor’s big sibling, is a 15/16-scale Dreadnought with a solid Sitka spruce top and sapele-laminate ba...More at American Musical Supply
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