I have two Taylors I'm hanging on to. One is my LKSM-12, which I will take to my grave. It's a pretty unique guitar and I've never come across a 12-string more suited to downtuned fingerpicking.
The other, my sinker redwood/EIR GSce BTO, I find is much more suited to strumming. It has none of the nuance, responsiveness, or detailed midrange present in my Webbers. When played fingerstyle, it feels overbuilt and quite "dead" - like you have to struggle to get the tone out of it. However, it has a massive, Martin-like low end and is an amazing strummer. It quite surprised me because it follows none of the Taylor stereotypes - it's got less high-end than many Martins I've played, more low-end, and strums far better than it fingerpicks.
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Some might call me a "Webber Guitars enthusiast".
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