Taylor and Santa Cruz are making serious inroads into the Martin monopoly around here. Thats good in more than the obvious ways, but, it has forced Martin to go back to building quality guitars as they used to. I've owned them all, Gibson, Martin, Mossman,Yamaha, Guild and Ibaneze. I swapped the Ibaneze for a gun, the Guild for a Mossman, I gave the Gibson away and I sold the Martin. Do I like the Taylor? Hope to piss in your mess kit!! (thread creep)