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06-29-2016, 11:56 AM
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Looking for Taylor Guitar Bodies !!!
I have a 1998 655 taylor 12 string neck and a Taylor NS74ce Neck. Looking for bodies to go with them, leads or advice please, I have contacted - Taylor, sweetwater, guitar center waiting to hear back, any shops or online places you know of?
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#3
06-29-2016, 06:31 PM
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My guess is that you will have an easier time selling these necks than finding intacts bodies to match Odds are that bodies would not survive damage as well as necks might.
Is there a cool story how you came to have disembodied necks?
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#4
06-30-2016, 03:22 AM
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Gibson J45 Neck
I'm curious as to how you have a neck and no body as well. I presently have a perfect neck from a 2015 Gibson J45 and going to sell the neck if I don't find a body to fit this dove tail neck. The body was damaged beyond repair but neck is fine.
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#5
06-30-2016, 05:33 AM
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Tis the bodies that always get damaged beyond repair....that is why you have necks and no bodies, eh?
Good luck but I must say I don't think I have ever come across a Taylor body by itself...lot's of necks though......
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06-30-2016, 06:07 AM
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yes I am wondering if I will find any bodies. I have a friend that makes guitar. I may have to build one. I sent a message to Taylor, which they sold used bodies but they do not. Would any other brand of guitar body work? are there any places that sell parts online?
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#7
06-30-2016, 07:23 AM
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I just don't think it's economically reasonable thing. If you are going to have a guitar built I can't imagine a luthier accepting to do so with a Taylor neck. And I would probably charge you just as much or at least close enough to the full price of a guitar to build a body around that neck.
So it's a wash. You could have fun with it though and build a cigar box type contraption or just nail it to a log, solder up some pickups, and call it an electric guitar too 
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#10
07-01-2016, 08:49 PM
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guitar modifications to accept a Taylor neck
All your questions are answered in the current issue of Taylor's house magazine, 'Wood and Steel'. Go grab a copy at a Taylor dealer's. Better than us trying to explain something that ain't easy to explain.
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#11
07-02-2016, 04:12 AM
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Occasionally (rarely) I see WTB posts for replacement necks to swap for damaged ones. Taylor will only sell new necks to dealers and often charges nearly the cost of a whole new guitar, as I understand it. Their maximum value will be as replacement parts....
It isn't feasible to fit an NT neck to anything but an NT body.
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#12
07-02-2016, 06:38 AM
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Quote:
 Now here is a typical dovetail type joint.....  The two are nothing alike.......
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#13
07-02-2016, 10:15 AM
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Retrofitting an existing body, however, to receive an NT neck, is a lot more involved, but again, not out the realm of possibility.
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#14
07-02-2016, 02:34 PM
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I picked up a used GS Mini neck for $50 and retrofitted it to a 1940s Kay arch top body to make a stellar octave mandolin. It wasn't particularly difficult, but it was necessary to make a router jig to cut the angled heel mortise shape and tongue extension area in the Kay body.
The neck was narrowed and the peg head re-drilled and new overlay added to accommodate 2 additional Taylor tuners. As said, anything is possible.
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