The sound quality is excellent and so is the response to my fingers........................I brought it to a luthier to have a custom bone nut and saddle installed the second week I had it and the difference is phenomenal.

The "plastic" (Non Bone) nut and saddle is useless on a $ 2,449. guitar. Also the extreme bevel on the fret ends that stop before the edge of the neck binding takes away from available playing width for string spacing.............Out of all the guitars I have owned over 40 years, I have yet to push a high E string off the fretboard due to being way too close to the edge of the fret. I corrected this by having a new nut and saddle installed out of bone while we were at it and the string spacing on the nut was corrected to alleviate this problem.

Very easy to use.............and articulate what my brain tells my fingers to do. Great full tone from bass to treble.............I like it. It is my first Taylor............I have had Martin, Guild, a Lawsuit Takamine and Seagull............I have a solid wood Breedlove cedar/rosewood for fingerpicking..........the Taylor will be up there with the Breedlove as my 2 favorites.

The quality of design and construction is excellent...............I am a little taken back by the nut spacing problem and a small blemish in the finish at the top body binding which should have been flagged before it left the factory............those thing aside, Taylor makes excellent guitars. Surely as with any manufacturing there will be blemishes and imperfections, but normally they are flagged.

Well we get what we pay for..............I do feel that the Taylors are a little overpriced as compared to other guitars such as Breedlove, Martin, Santa Cruz. Collings etc.

Yes I contacted Taylor who was very supportive and offered to send a new nut to a luthier for them to cut. They were very friendly and discussed the issue with me. I however elected to go with a new Bone nut and saddle which I paid for out of pocket.

My favorite guitar prior to this Taylor was a hand made, all solid wood, Breedlove........made in Korea......LOL............it's a truly excellent guitar even with the Korea stigma......The Taylor is made in USA (yeah) and is a great strummer...........the 516ce is a plain looking but very nice guitar...........so, it's more of a Utilitarian thing than Wow............like a Martin D28 or a Guild D50.

Have played 45 years......not professional but countless gigs. I play bass and acoustic guitar

Jazz on Bass....................fingerpicking on acoustic.......eclectic.

Ben playing since I was 40 years of age, 30 years. Only serious last 4 years.

Bluegrass and Acoustic Country.