Taylor Gold Label 814e SB Honduran Rosewood Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Gold Brown Sunburst
6-String | Sitka Spruce Top | Honduran Rosewood Back and Sides | Neo-Tropical Mahogany Neck | West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard | LR Baggs - Element VTC Electronics | Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown Case
This edition of Taylor's all-new Gold Label 814e adds a lustrous sunburst finish to match its seasoned, heritage-style sound and lush overtones. Featuring the new Super Auditorium body shape, this model boasts back and sides of Honduran rosewood, a torrefied Sitka spruce top and a fanned variant of Taylor's tone-boosting V-Class bracing architecture. The result is a sound with stunning warmth and richness, complemented with remarkable power and clarity even with the most aggressive attack. A new long-tenon neck joint improves sonic transfer for greater resonance while also offering even easier and more precise adjustability, letting you dial in the feel you need to sound your best. A suite of Continental inlays, grained ivoroid trim, a new pickguard, antique chrome Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony buttons, and a full-body gloss round out the package. This model includes LR Baggs Element VTC electronics with discrete soundhole-mounted controls, ensuring warm, rich sound when you need to plug in. The Gold Label 814e SB ships with a deluxe hardshell case featuring a stylish British Cocoa exterior.
- New Super Auditorium shape for power and sonic focus
- Torrefied Sitka spruce top adds warmth and projection
- Honduran rosewood yields complex overtone profile
- Long-tenon neck joint improves resonance and adjustability
- Includes LR Baggs Element VTC electronics and deluxe hardshell case
FEATURES
Stylish Aesthetics. Superior Tone.
A new body shape combined with Honduran rosewood and torrefied Sitka spruce add up to exceptionally warm, vintage-flavored tone.
Super Auditorium Body: Building on the versatility, balance and clarity that players have come to love from Bob Taylor’s Grand Auditorium body shape, consider the Super Auditorium an evolution of that playing experience that incorporates all the benefits of the V-Class bracing architecture developed by Andy Powers. With curves and contours that draw on Bob’s design but with a slightly longer body and wider lower bout, the Super Auditorium will feel familiar while adding a new sonic dimension inspired by guitars from the 1930s and ’40s. With a focus on warmth, the Super Auditorium produces an open, blooming voice that produces room-filling tone with a light touch while gaining power as you dig in. Inside, a fanned V-Class variant enhances the depth and resonance, enhancing the volume and sustain while ensuring pitch accuracy all the way up the neck.
Super Auditorium Body Specifications: Body Length: 20 3/16" / Body Width: 16 1/4" / Body Depth: 4 1/2"
Honduran Rosewood Body Wood: Extremely dense compared to other rosewood species, Honduran rosewood sings with a uniquely smooth voice that makes it worthy of Taylor's finest guitars.
Origin: Honduras
Sound: Honduran rosewood has rich heritage in the world of acoustic instruments, highly valued as the wood of choice for marimba bars and now an ingredient in some of Taylor’s finest guitars.
Considerably denser than Indian rosewood, Honduran rosewood has an extremely low damping factor, which contributes to a supremely textured, harmonically complex tone. You’ll hear the warm low end and sparkling, chime-like trebles that you’d expect from other rosewood species, along with a smoothness that stands out from other hardwoods. Overtones are lush and bloom out as notes sustain while maintaining enough clarity to ensure you can cut to the front of a mix when needed.
Goes Well With: A wide range of playing styles and genres, from Americana to blues to fingerpicking applications and beyond. Pairs especially well with a sinker redwood top, which adds midrange heft and even greater warmth.
Sitka Spruce Top Wood: As a guitar soundboard, or top, Sitka spruce is the tonewood standard of the modern era. It’s used on 85-90 percent of the guitars that Taylor makes. Its combination of strength and elasticity translates into a broad dynamic range, yielding crisp articulation and allowing for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking. Sitka spruce is Bob Taylor’s personal favorite for an all-around great guitar.
Origin: Canada
Goes Well With: All styles of guitars and players.
SPECIFICATIONS
General
- Number of Strings: 6 String
- Orientation: Right Handed
- Body Shape: Super Auditorium
- Bracing System: Fanned V-Class with Tonal Route
- Color: Gold Brown Sunburst Top, Natural Back/Sides
- Electronics: LR Baggs - Element VTC Case/Bag Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown
Body
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Back/Side Wood: Hawaiian Koa
- Rosette: Custom Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
- Back Configuration: 2-piece or 4-piece Simons Wedge
- Body Binding: .080" Grained Ivoroid, Round Over Edges
- Top Finish: Gloss
- Back/Side Finish: Gloss
Neck
- Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Profile: Standard Carve
- Fretboard Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Continental
- Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Finish: Satin
Peghead
- Nut Width: 1-3/4"
- Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Scale Length: 25-1/2"
- Peghead Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Continental
- Peghead Type: Paddle
- Peghead Finish: Gloss
Other
- Bridge: Honduran Rosewood
- Nut & Saddle: White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins: Bone
- Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
- Pickguard: Ivoroid/Tortoise, with Engraving
- Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Chrome with Ebony EN01 Buttons
- Strap Pin: Black
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