So, is 1995 pre-NT? I wasn't sure, though it was obvious it was a one-piece neck.
I'm guessing the bracing HAD to be different back then . . the sound is just too different from the Taylors in the last 10 years. Of course, the new "Andy Powers" bracing (in the GO, 800-series, now 700-series, and presumably eventually all the guitars) sounds different than either one of those, too.
Guitar Center had a custom run of only fifty 516's made (with an ebony arm rest, striking bear-claw Sitka top, flamed mahogany back/sides, koa binding, streaked ebony fretboard) . . . and I strongly suspect (after hearing one . . this is what the guy bought that traded in the two Taylors, one of which I bought and is the subject of this thread) that it also had the new "Andy Powers" bracing in it . . . simply based on the sound . . . sorta like the Taylors of the last decade or so, but with a more "Gisbon-esque" bass.
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