Hollow Body Electric Guitar Reviews

Another evolutionary part of Taylor guitar design

By Dan Day
Musician’s Friend Team Author

The T3 Semi-Hollowbody, the most recent guitar from Taylor, offers supreme resonance and awareness of design down seriously to the tiniest details, rendering it both a joy to play and behold. The Taylor T3 while the Bigsby-equipped T3/B tend to be artistic stunners with extremely figured quilted maple tops and chrome appointments that elicit the sort of oohs and aahs you hear at a 4th of July fireworks reveal. The semi-hollowbody design, woods, and construction result in the T3 very resonant electric guitars I’ve ever before played. Unplugged, i discovered it a joy in order to sit on the sofa and have fun with the mid-day away. The big lower bout plays a role in that wonderful resonance while creating tonal stability while the feel of an acoustic electric guitar, in the place of an inferior, solid-bodied electric.

Taylor-design DNA

The DNA passed on into the T3 includes Taylor’s single-bolt T-Lock neck combined. Its jigsaw puzzle-like form guarantees a strong fit and dead-on intonation because of the look and feel of a collection throat. The Taylor control knobs have actually a lip advantage that allow super-smooth amount swells. The design 2 HD (hi-def) humbuckers mirror two Taylor design improvements. They’ve altered the main focus and course of magnetized flux with a new form of magnet and brewed up a secret dish for windings. This leads to pickups that produce the sweet sound of vintage humbuckers with an increase of powerful range and output.

The T3 includes improved electronic devices such as coil-splitting triggered by pulling up the amount control. In a discussion I had with Taylor fashion designer David Hosler, he talked-about the thinking that moved into the tone control circuit. "numerous guitarists discovered not to anticipate much from a tone control. We made a decision to make a move making it of use. Whenever pulled up, the T3’s tone control adds an additional capacitor to the circuit generating a quasi-parametric brush for the range of the control. Players may use the boosted mids to incorporate just a little heat to your single-coil or mellow out of the humbuckers for a level jazzier tone without squashing it into a muddy sound." My audition regarding the T3 verified Taylor’s design goal was met in every respect.

Incorporating the Bigsby generate the T3/B version marks the very first time Taylor features put some one else’s element on one of their guitars. Hosler revealed it was Fred Gretsch whom urged Taylor to make use of the Bigsby vibrato—a function made popular on Gretsch models. Taylor however, went the additional help its integration. For ultra-smooth functionality, the company added a roller bridge that keeps the strings from getting caught into the bridge saddles after becoming pulled by the vibrato.

Nice trip

Fellow staffer Martin Race and I put both T3 guitars through their paces during a recent Musician’s Friend Jam Night, a music get-together of your staff at a nearby watering hole. After offering both designs a workout on many tunes from ’60s jangle rockers to mellow jazz tunes and getting lots of thumbs-up from other buddy staffers, we attained a consensus: The Taylor T3 is one highly functional axe having its really tweakable electronic devices, highly playable smooth-action throat, fretboard-access-friendly cutaway, and custom-shaped frets. Similar to 6105s, the frets tend to be tall, fat, and designed for thorough note-bending.