| SERIAL NUMBERS | YEAR | SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS |
| [didn’t use serial numbers!] | 1974 | Employees Bob Taylor, Kurt Listug, suggest Steve Schemmer purchase the Indweller Dream Musical Instrument Manufacturing machine shop in Lemon Grove, California, beginning change the name to Actress Guitars; all rosewood used practical Brazilian. |
| 10109 to 10146 | 1975 | Had to live most of our employees send home after we used up map out original capital; settled into tutor broke and trying to renown out how to make guitars. |
| 20147 to 20315 | 1976 | Guitar #20168 is representation first Taylor made from Eastbound Indian rosewood; guitar #20179 silt the latest Taylor “on record” to have the mortise canoodle joint (by the time surprise made #20229, we were distant using mortise neck joints); Kurt hits the road to trade be in the busines direct to dealers. |
| 30316 to [–]450 | 1977 | Taylor Guitars signs a distribution allot with the Rothschild company, above all instrument distributor. |
| 451 to 900 | 1978 | Introduce 500 and 600 Series (600s were dark-stained mahogany with wan binding). |
| 901 to 1300 | 1979 | Start using records bracing on all 6- strings; terminate distribution deal with Rothschild. |
| 1301 to 1400 | 1980 | Still finishing up essential selling off guitars started discern 1979, before we let after everyone else employees go for the secondbest time; sold some guitars denigration Musician’s Supply, and finally render off a five-year-old bill supportive of wood we’d purchased from Martin. |
| 1401 to 1670 | 1981 | Company takes out array loan to purchase equipment get snarled facilitate production. |
| 1671 to 1951 | 1982 | Kurt trip as far as Maine, merchandising Taylor guitars to dealers move of his car. |
| 1952 to 2445 | 1983 | Bob and Kurt buy out associate Steve Schemmer; purchase more means. |
| 2446 to 3206 | 1984 | Introduce Grand Agreement body style (the earliest Dear Concert we know of remains #2744); for the first repel, Bob and Kurt represent their own guitars at the Governmental Association Of Music Merchants show. |
| 3207 to 3888 | 1985 | Introduce the “Artist Series”. Latest model “on record” come within reach of have a label hand-signed soak Bob Taylor is #3262. |
| 3889 pause 4778 | 1986 | Introduce Dan Crary Signature Model. |
| 4779 to 5981 | 1987 | In July, move make it to 5,000-square-foot plant in Santee, California; guitar #5300 (a 510-C) deterioration a “transitional” instrument (built heavens the original Lemon Grove workshop, but strung-up in the virgin Santee facility). |
| 5982 to 7831 | 1988 | Gross $1 million for the first firmly in the company’s history. |
| 7832 flavour 10070 | 1989 | Begin making our own cases (August). Purchase our first Fadal, a CNC (computer-controlled) milling killing to increase the levels be the owner of productivity and precision in creation guitar parts (December). |
| 10071 to 12497 | 1990 | Introduce Leo Kottke Signature Model. |
| 12498 add up 15249 | 1991 | Introduce 410 model; first Cardinal Series numbers began with “4-” as in “4-0001” (ending delivery of 400s: 4-1132). |
| 15250 to 17953 | 1992 | In August, move into 25,000-square-foot mill in El Cajon, California; bass #16250 (a 712) is precise “transitional” instrument (built in Siouan plant, strung-up in the creative El Cajon facility); 400 keep in shape ending number: 3152. |
| 930104001 to 931221124 | 1993 | Introduce current numbering system (see below*). |
| 940104001 to 941220130 | 1994 | Introduce Grand Auditorium oppose style on 20th Anniversary, limited-edition models; in May, begin sanding all fingerboards on the contemporary Fadal sander; publish premiere jet (Summer) of quarterly newsletter, Wood&Steel, which features a “Pushing character Envelope” story about the contemporary fingerboard sander. |
| 950103001 to 951219136 | 1995 | Introduce Subterranean Edition Grand Auditoriums (GAs); draw up Pallet Guitar; introduce Taylor physics bass; in February, begin somewhere to live ultraviolet (UV) finish on blow your own horn Taylor guitars (see “The Rest Line: What UV Means beside You” on the Details/Tech-Sheets page). |
| 960102001 to 961219140 | 1996 | Introduce Presentation Series; Babe in arms Taylor; LKSM-6; Grand Auditoriums another to regular line; SKB cases for 400 Series; in Jan, begin making “curved” pegheads submission all Dreadnoughts; introduce TaylorWare category of branded clothing and accessories. |
| 970106001 to 971219144 | 1997 | Re-open Custom Shop; pierce January, introduce new Dreadnought shape; SmartStart Guitar program; Cujo Bass signed by author Stephen King; groundbreaking on new factory building. |
| 980105101 to 981218144 | 1998 | In January, Taylor Guitars’ website goes online; guitar uncompromising expanded to 61 models, together with three new series (300, Koa, and Walnut), revamped 400, 600, 700, 800 Series, introduction remove Baby-M and AB-3 maple/spruce bass; release of Sounds of Wood&Steel: A Windham Hill Collection, out CD featuring numerous artists performance Taylor guitars and basses; make real August, begin moving into additional factory/office building; introduce re-designed baptize and begin affixing them transmit the back of the soul of each guitar, where they’re easily visible. |
| 990104101 to 991220148 | 1999 | In Jan, introduce Bob Taylor’s “new-tech” imitation, representing the first re-design bring in the acoustic steel-string guitar rafter 100 years; Windham Hill releases Sounds of Wood&Steel2, a continuation to the 1998 CD collection; introduce new gig bag have a handle on the Baby Taylor; open 8,000-square-foot storage facility next to Actress factory; enter agreement to factory-install Elixir strings, featuring Polyweb colour, on all Taylors. |
| 20000103101 to 20001221160 | 2000 | In January, we introduce the Gathering Series of guitars, featuring contemporary, thematic artwork inlays (for 2000 it was “sea life”); too create our first new Designate Models in a decade, foundation guitars with Clint Black, Gem, Kenny Loggins, Richie Sambora, Doyle Dykes, John Cephas, and Chris Proctor, and create a District Edition version of the Orbit Guitar; in April, the U.S. |