Taylor Next Generation Builder's Edition 814ce Honduran Rosewood/Adirondack Spruce (059)

With its refined voice, comfort-enhancing touches and premium tonewood selection, the Builder's Edition 814ce sets a new standard for player-focused design. This updated Grand Auditorium combines Adirondack spruce with Honduran rosewood to yield a richly textured response with sophisticated harmonics, warm lows and bell-like trebles, while a new scalloped variant of our V-Class interior bracing delivers even greater improvements to volume, sustain and pitch accuracy. Thoughtful contours such as the beveled armrest, matching cutaway and rounded body edges add up to a remarkably seamless playing experience. Other updates include the Action Control Neck, which enables exceptionally easy action adjustments to dial in the perfect feel, and our new Claria electronics, which deliver beautifully authentic plugged-in tone in any scenario without the need for fine-tuning EQ. Visual details include Element fretboard inlays in shell and mother of pearl, a rosewood pickguard, Gotoh 510 tuning machines in antique gold, and a full-body gloss finish with a dusky edgeburst color treatment.

Number of Strings: 6
Orientation: Right-Handed
Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
Top Wood: Adirondack Spruce
Back & Sides: Honduran Rosewood
Bracing: Scalloped V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout
Cutaway: Beveled Cutaway
Color: Kona Edgeburst Back/Sides, Shaded Edgeburst Top
Back Configuration: 4-Piece, Simons Wedge
Body Binding: Chamfered Edges
Armrest: Beveled Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Rosette: Green Abalone Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
Top Finish: Gloss
Back & Sides Finish: Gloss
Neck Material: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Neck Profile: Standard Carve
Neck Finish: Satin
Scale Length: 25-1/2"
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
Fingerboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Fingerboard Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Element
Peghead Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
Peghead Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Element
Peghead Type: Paddle
Peghead Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Peghead Finish: Satin
Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
Nut: Black TUSQ
Saddle: White Micarta
Bridge Pins: West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Gold with Antique Gold Buttons
Electronics: The Claria Acoustic Pickup System
Pickguard: Indian Rosewood
Strap Pin: Black
End Pin: Black
Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012-.053)
Case: Brown Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case