David Hosler: Quick Retrospect of 08

I was way too busy in 08 to write on my Blog or finish the instructions for building acoustic preamps and a Ray Gun!

It was a really busy 08!

In Jan of last year we launched the Taylor Solidbody Electric guitar at

the NAMM show in Anaheim. Three of us from Taylor also flew to NY to do interviews with Guitar World and San Francisco to interview with Guitar Player.

By late February I was on a plane headed for Europe for two weeks to begin planning the set up of Taylor Factory service centers in 3 different countries. In March I headed back to Germany for 10 days to attend the Music Messe in Frankfurt and continue planning and training for the centers.

In May I flew to Holland to work with the EDC where all the guitars ship from and then to the UK where we set up the first center in East Grinstead.

The Hotel I stay at in Breda Holland now sets up a small drawing and painting desk for me by the window in my room! Great folks and a really beautiful city!

Below is a picture of the Service crew and Danielle the CS director for Europe.

In July I was off again for another two weeks where we set up the second center in Dusseldorf Germany and in September we

set up the third in Gothenburg Sweden, another two weeks.

By late September plans for the launch of our next product the T3 were beginning to take shape and the Taylor Tremolo was in it's first advanced proto stage. As the year was winding down and we began ramping up for the launch I made a quick trip to Tokyo to begin setting up our service and sales support in Japan.

Today is Jan 11th 09, in 3 days the cycle starts again with NAMM and the launch of the T3! Checkout the Taylor websight for some great pictures of the new guitar and highlights from the NAMM show!

Here's a shot I did with my phone of the first proto outside my office, sorry about the picture quality.