How Many Instruments Do You Own? The Guitars: Tacoma DR8C Roadking
This is 
my Tacoma DR8C Roadking (2000) - a discontinued model made before the company was sold to Fender. Another Elderly purc
hase, it's a rosewood dreadnaught with a some unusual features: a bolt-on heel-less neck with 15 frets clear, a pinless bridge, and a paisley shaped soundhole located in the upper bout bass side. It has a unusually deep and full bass response, due to Tacoma's proprietary bracing design, the slightly forward bridge placement and the unusually large soundboard area, along with very strong presence and volume. It has a L.R. Baggs piezo bridge pickup and preamp with an endpin jack. Currently it's my "special effects" guitar, strung with GHS BB50H heavy gauge (!) Bright Bronze strings (.014, .018, .028, .038, .048, .060) I keep it tuned down a whole step to D. It's a tribute to the bracing design that even with the low tuning the heavy strings have never bowed the top up, nor has the bridge lifted or twisted. I use Kaiser partial capos with it to simulate drop D, open G and DADGAD tunings. My only problem with the guitar is that the preamp has a push button phase switch that sometimes interrupts the pickup output. Sometime I should try to open the preamp and remedy the problem; even a relatively large hand like mine can fit into that big soundhole... (11-29-09 update - just happened to look at the Tacoma web page and there is a Roadking model available, the RM6C - a mahogany dreadnaught with a Fishman pickup and preamp)
This is 
my Tacoma DR8C Roadking (2000) - a discontinued model made before the company was sold to Fender. Another Elderly purc
hase, it's a rosewood dreadnaught with a some unusual features: a bolt-on heel-less neck with 15 frets clear, a pinless bridge, and a paisley shaped soundhole located in the upper bout bass side. It has a unusually deep and full bass response, due to Tacoma's proprietary bracing design, the slightly forward bridge placement and the unusually large soundboard area, along with very strong presence and volume. It has a L.R. Baggs piezo bridge pickup and preamp with an endpin jack. Currently it's my "special effects" guitar, strung with GHS BB50H heavy gauge (!) Bright Bronze strings (.014, .018, .028, .038, .048, .060) I keep it tuned down a whole step to D. It's a tribute to the bracing design that even with the low tuning the heavy strings have never bowed the top up, nor has the bridge lifted or twisted. I use Kaiser partial capos with it to simulate drop D, open G and DADGAD tunings. My only problem with the guitar is that the preamp has a push button phase switch that sometimes interrupts the pickup output. Sometime I should try to open the preamp and remedy the problem; even a relatively large hand like mine can fit into that big soundhole... (11-29-09 update - just happened to look at the Tacoma web page and there is a Roadking model available, the RM6C - a mahogany dreadnaught with a Fishman pickup and preamp)
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