After years of waiting Taylor Guitars have finally included Tasmanian blackwood into their standard line of guitars!!
This is the first time a major international guitar manufacturer has incorporated Tasmanian blackwood into its standard production.
This is farm-grown Tasmanian blackwood.
HOORAY FOR TASMANIA!!
Taylor Guitars master guitar designer Andy Powers explains why the refinements applied to the new Taylor 300 Series make the guitars the most dynamically responsive, expressive instruments the series has ever offered. He also talks about the addition of Tasmanian blackwood to the series…
…. and why it’s one of his all-time favorite tonewoods, from its warmth and dynamic range to its sustainable sourcing outlook.
You can’t ask for a better recommendation than that now can you?
Nonetheless, blackwood has been attracting an ever-growing following among guitar makers and players. The supply is also sustainable, with a healthy sourcing outlook for the future.
Ok that’s enough! You can stop now!!
The 300 series are Taylor’s lowest price solid wood guitars.
How do you introduce a relatively new unknown tonewood into the American market?
You bring it out at a low price so the market is better able to experience the magic of Tasmanian blackwood.
https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/browse?series=105
My only request to Andy Powers!
Please also include Tasmanian blackwood as a top wood option in the 300 series!!!
Please let us have a Taylor 300 that speaks 100% Tasmanian blackwood.
Now we want guitar buyers to stampede these new Tasmanian blackwood models from Taylor guitars.
Tasmanian blackwood – the profitable, sustainable quality tonewood.
Lapoinya and Forestry Tasmania profitability and commercial management
Here’s a great video interview with economics commentator John Lawrence who has been following the mismanagement of Forestry Tasmania for a very long time.
His comments relate somewhat to the current conflict around the logging at Lapoinya in north west Tasmania. But much of his observations relate to FTs general business operations.
I have two comments to make in relation to what Mr Lawrence has to say:
But it’s way too late!
The forest industry should have been reformed along commercial lines back in the mid 1980s when the Hawke-Keating economic reforms were in progress. But the forest industry refused to reform. By my reckoning the last chance the forest industry had to reform was during the RFA process in the late 1990s. But once again the forest industry resisted change.
And now it’s too late!
The public native forest industry is all but gone. Decades of politics, conflict and waste have driven the industry to the point of extinction.
Any idea that there is still something that can be rescued is pure delusion.
Forestry Tasmania is now just a political play thing. A toy to help win the next State election.
The problem for Tasmania is that no politician has the courage to face the truth.
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