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merc73

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anyone tried/bought a taylor gs mini? was thinking of getting one.

Care to share or review? post pics?

thanks.
 
is the mini the 3/4 sized? Get a Baby Taylor if you're not using it for travelling. Much bigger, fuller sound compared to the 3/4 size.
 
Baby Taylor not exactly the most comfortable guitar that I've tried because I felt that the neck was a little too small for me. No doubt the sound is good but it's not exactly the kind of guitar that I would play for a long period of time. It actually gets tiring to play with after a while. I rather get a 3/4 sized guitar like a big baby
 
relinquish69 said:
Baby Taylor not exactly the most comfortable guitar that I've tried because I felt that the neck was a little too small for me. No doubt the sound is good but it's not exactly the kind of guitar that I would play for a long period of time. It actually gets tiring to play with after a while. I rather get a 3/4 sized guitar like a big baby
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Ah yes! My mistake, i meant to put big baby... heheh.
 
the taylor baby production is falling short in the face of higher than expected demand...be prepared to place order and wait for it. I have been waiting for a month since i paid my deposit with Sinamex for one. I think it has good decent amount of lows and mids, but i feel the top end tone and overall feel of the guitar still sound far from the sound in a $5000 taylor that is often 'lively or crips or clear harmonically (whatever you want to call it)'. So to compare apple to apple, a big baby will be a good comparison. I'm not being very clear enough here, so the best is to go down to sinamex and feel and hear this guitar as what i like may not be your cup of tea.
 
Just an update...has just received my gs mini 2 days ago... and one thing i discovered was that the guitar is sucking in moisture faster than i thought, this is because i had never had solid wood top guitars before, this is my first that has a solid wood top, so now i know singapore's constant high air humidity really very harmful for solid wood guitars as i can really feel the action getting slightly higher and the string's are tuned slight lower every night i picked up the guitar to play ( i tune the guitar very often). So today i had panic shoppings for dehumidifier and bought 5 packets of zorb-it and 3 cupboard type thirsty hippos , although its not the best method, but at least i hope will retard the wetting of the guitar.
 
lemonade93 said:
the best way is just to chuck a bag of silica gel into the guitar, works fine for me :)
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isn't it difficult to remove out of the sound and possibility of getting it stuck in the braces underneath the top wood? How long does one packet last inside? I am looking for the next best alternative to a guitar dehumidifier cabinet as i cant find one in singapore yet...so spending $50 per month on dehumidifing is what i am looking at..... or do you know where got sell these kind of dehumidifying cabinets that can fit in a guitar?
 
distortion81 said:
Just an update...has just received my gs mini 2 days ago... and one thing i discovered was that the guitar is sucking in moisture faster than i thought, this is because i had never had solid wood top guitars before, this is my first that has a solid wood top, so now i know singapore's constant high air humidity really very harmful for solid wood guitars as i can really feel the action getting slightly higher and the string's are tuned slight lower every night i picked up the guitar to play ( i tune the guitar very often). So today i had panic shoppings for dehumidifier and bought 5 packets of zorb-it and 3 cupboard type thirsty hippos , although its not the best method, but at least i hope will retard the wetting of the guitar.
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Woah, I think thats going slightly overboard. Most guitar stores don't even have a dehumidfier and their acoustics stay perfectly fine. Check your neck whether it's straight. As for the tuning try stretching your strings. I don't think the main cause of all those problems are just humidity alone.
 
relinquish69 said:
Woah, I think thats going slightly overboard. Most guitar stores don't even have a dehumidfier and their acoustics stay perfectly fine. Check your neck whether it's straight. As for the tuning try stretching your strings. I don't think the main cause of all those problems are just humidity alone.
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my room cannot compare with shops bro, cos my room does not have the luxury of air conditioning.... its constantly windly or feeling warm.

just had a check on the thirsty hippos in the cupboard... all wet after a day, the tiny absorbing balls are like sticking together by wetness, need to give it a few hard shakes to loosen them up.

I also took the guitar out for a tune test... instead of the pitch dropping everytime i took out the guitar from the case during the first 2 days without any form of dehumidification, it has now gone slight sharper after 12 hours.... its working!

THe next thing i'm gonna do is to buy a hydrometer tomorrow...to make sure the humidity in my cupboard stays between 40 to 45%...these thirsty hippos does not know how to stop drinking.
 
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pls tell me, how much is a big baby,new and used.i want to know the USA made,not the made in Mexico.tks
 
All current big baby taylors are now made in mexico. If you want a usa model, you'll have to get yours used. Although just lurking in the buy sell thread for a while, will tell you that they are not put up for sale very often.
 
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