Taylor Tecate

Name: Taylor Tecate
Address: Tecate, Baja California, Mexico

Tecate, Baja California, Mexico^{no source}. Built for 1 brand on record.

conflict:K018 2000 (Taylor timeline) vs c.1999. Cases first, then Baby, GS Mini, Academy, 100/200; about 700/day per KPBS. Lead added 2026-10-15 (not a fact change): Panjiva (S328) names the Mexican consignee as Taylor Musical Instruments de Mexico S de RL de CV, El Bajio 6500, Prolongacion Calzada El Bajio, Tecate, BC 21440, with a 2025-10-07 truck shipment from El Cajon (commodity masked). An ImportGenius Crelicam record of 2019-03-24 (S323) shows a Taylor shipment of 18,817 kg whose ship-to reads 'Tecate, CA' (garbled), which would point to ebony reaching this plant; see SL013.

More: every plant in Mexico, the Taylor lineage.

Where it is

The point marks Tecate, Baja California, Mexico at city level. It shows the town, not the factory gate. Recorded place^{no source}. Lines run in from where its materials come from (listed below). Each origin is the centre of the region or country on record, not a mill or a forest.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Taylor	Taylor USA, Taylor Tecate (Mexico)	1999–now^{[1, 2, 3]}

Who ran the plant

The operator is not always the brand owner. Follow a company to see every plant it ran.

Years	Operator	Source
2000–now	Taylor Guitars (Westland Music Co. / Taylor-Listug)	primary^[2]

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
1999–now	Taylor	Taylor USA	parts	disputed^[1]
2000–now	Taylor	Taylor USA	parts	primary^[2]
undated	Taylor	Taylor Tecate (Mexico)	full build	secondary^[3]

Where its materials come from

What reaches the plant, in what form, from where, and who supplied it. A plant building for several brands draws on the same supply for all of them.

current linkended or undatedorigin, region or country centre

Material	Form	From	Supplier	Customs	Years	Source
Ebony Diospyros crassiflora	sawn lumber	Yaounde, Cameroon	Crelicam	—	c. 2011–now	secondary^{[4, 5, 6]}

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
blogspot: 2026/03/taylor guitars history and current.htmlgraded community
2
taylorguitars: about/50th anniversary timelinegraded primary
- "Tecate Factory 2000… relocation of Taylor's in-house case production"Taylor built here
3
kpbs: podcasts/the finest/how taylor guitars changed the guitar industry and helped revitalize agraded secondary
- "102 guitars per day… Tecate… about 700 per day"Taylor built here
4
taylorguitars: projects/ebony in cameroon 2graded primary
5
Ebony's Final Frontier (Wood & Steel, Summer 2012)graded primary
6
Crelicam (ImportGenius supplier profile)graded secondary

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