Factory installed strap button on NH Guilds

[SFIV1967]

Knew it was a very early model, but assume that w/ 3 guys working there (as I've heard there was in '74), the output would've been higher than a half-dozen...I'd've thought more like 30 or so.

I know we are a bit off-topic here. But Taylor's S/N 10109 to 10146 were made in 1975, so if your's from 1974 it does not have a serial number at all yet, correct?

I found the source, look here: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/guitars/taylor

"That first year, the young entrepreneurs managed to make six (!) guitars. By 1975, Taylor Guitars had made 36 instruments, including the 810, a six-string, rosewood dreadnought with the company’s trademark mustache-shaped bridge. Serial numbers that year began with the number 10, to denote the firm’s first full year in business."

Ralf

 

[Terry Allan Hall]

Knew it was a very early model, but assume that w/ 3 guys working there (as I've heard there was in '74), the output would've been higher than a half-dozen...I'd've thought more like 30 or so.

I know we are a bit off-topic here. But Taylor's S/N 10109 to 10146 were made in 1975, so if your's from 1974 it does not have a serial number at all yet, correct?

I found the source, look here: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/guitars/taylor

"That first year, the young entrepreneurs managed to make six (!) guitars. By 1975, Taylor Guitars had made 36 instruments, including the 810, a six-string, rosewood dreadnought with the company’s trademark mustache-shaped bridge. Serial numbers that year began with the number 10, to denote the firm’s first full year in business."

Ralf

Just looked and no, no serial #, so maybe it is rarer that I'd supposed. Had no idea it was only one of six.

Thanks! 8)

 

[adorshki]

Just to add my 2 cents:

2007 F30 - Strap button installed on the side of the body as in the images above. And yes, the guitar has factory installed electrics.

1991 JF30 - no strap button, no electronics

1991 D15 - Has strap button on the treble side of the heel, and electronics, though neither the electrics or the button look factory installed.

My 2 cents:
'96 and '97 catalogs show strap buttons on body in all pics of F-series acoustic electrics (like F65ce). '96 catalog pics of DCE-1 and DCE-5 (dreadnoughts) clearly show no strap button on body even though they're a/e guitars.

Personally, I like it on the body, I think playing standing up it provides better balance, and I don't think it affects the sound. I think the way you sit with a guitar in your lap has more effect on the sound than anything else.

I'm ok with it on the body on my F65ce, but then, I virtually never play standing up. In fact, a strap button would probably interfere with access at the cutaway on that body.
Havens D40 has no strap button, equipped with passive Dtar.
And I'm a real fanatic about playing in classical position, as my avatar shows. And that room? My living room. It has good dimensions. And a "popcorn" (acoustic) ceiling.