DIRECTOR’S CUT

Andy Powers has certainly come a long way since, at the age of just 15, he ran into Bob Taylor at a Harvey Reid concert and showed Bob a ukulele he’d built. Impressed with the quality of the workmanship, Taylor famously told the teenager, “If you ever need a job come look me up.”

A couple of decades later, Andy was recruited by Bob to lead guitar design for Taylor Guitars, freeing up the company’s co-founder to spend more time on forestry and sustainability projects in Cameroon and Hawaii. If it all seems fated already, what if we told you that Andy’s middle-name is Taylor? True story…

Powers’ recent achievements at Taylor include reinventing the internal architecture of the flat-top acoustic, introducing an elegant new round-shouldered dreadnought into the catalogue in the shape of the vintage-flavoured Grand Pacific, designing the most in-tune 12-string acoustic we’ve ever heard and much more besides. And 2019 also saw Andy join