2002 Taylor The Liberty Tree Acoustic Guitar

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  • Year: 2002
  • Manufacturer: Taylor
  • Model: The Liberty Tree Acoustic Guitar
  • Case: Hard
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  • Condition: Brand New
  • Description: When Taylor Guitars released The Liberty Tree guitar in 2002, the 400 instruments made, were distributed with a maximum availability of two per dealer. Rudy’s promptly stashed the first one we received #42 and are only now! putting this unique piece of history up for sale. One tree in each of the 13 colonies was designated as a Liberty tree, and used as a meeting place by the patriots who organized the Revolutionary War. The back and sides of the Liberty Tree Guitar are made from the last surviving of the 13 Liberty Trees, a Tulip Poplar, which resided on the St. Johns campus in Annapolis Maryland. Taylor guitars acquired the wood after the tree was uprooted by Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Each Liberty Tree featured a select sitka spruce top, Mahogany neck and ebony fretboard. An inlaid “Declaration of Independence and early American flag unfurl across the fretboard extension and top. The rosette has thirteen stars representing the thirteen colonies inlaid into it. The headstock also sports an inlaid American Flag in it’s Ebony headstock veneer. This Beautiful Taylor Grand Concert guitar is a piece not only of Taylor’s history, but America’s as well. Historical Background The Liberty Tree Guitar is Taylor’s homage to the resilient spirit of freedom that inspired our nation’s birth. This special series is made from the last survivor of 13 Liberty Trees, around which the early-American Colonists gathered to spread their ideals of independence and strategize the American Revolution. The Liberty Tree endured as a nurturing symbol of our nation’s growth until sustaining fatal injuries from Hurricane Floyd in 1999. Never before has Bob Taylor undertaken a guitar endeavor with such reverence. Features The Liberty Tree is a Grand Concert with back and sides of gloriously figured, chocolate-and-vanilla-colored tulip poplar, and an abalone-edged top of Sitka spruce. A laser-etched, burly maple inlay of a scrolled Declaration of Independence extends from the fingerboard onto the guitar top. The rosette combines a crescent of 13 stars (one for each of the original Colonies) around one half of the soundhole, opposite an early battle pennant that flew during the Revolution. A depiction of the first post-Revolution American flag is inlaid in dyed maple on the peghead. Give us a call for more information on this beauty! Rudy’s Soho: 212 625-2557 Specifications Type/Size of Guitar 6-String Grand Concert Back/Sides Liberty Tree Tulip Poplar Top Sitka Spruce soundhole Rosette Maple, Bloodwood, Koa and Color Core Fretboard Ebony Fretboard Inlay Maple, Bloodwood, Koa and Color Core Headstock Overlay Ebony Binding Ivoroid with Abalone-Edged Top Bridge Ebony Nut & Saddle Tusq Tuning Machines Gold-plated Schallers with Ebony Buttons Strings Elixer® Acoustic Light-gauge Bronze Scale Length 25 1/2 Truss Rod Adjustable Neck With at Nut 1 3/4 inches Number of Frets 20 Bracing Scalloped, X-Brace Finish Gloss Cutaway None Electronics None Body Width 15 inches Body Length 19 1/2 inches Body Depth 4 1/8 inches Overall Length 40 1/2 inches Case Taylor Hardshell