Taylor Gold Label 814e Koa, Ebony Fingerboard, Sunburst Top

*This instrument was on display at the Winter NAMM show. It has been hand-inspected with any significant playwear listed below in detail. The instrument includes its full factory warranty and original case. We'll complete a full professional setup before shipping.*

~Guitar pictured is the actual guitar that you will receive~

Taylor’s Gold Label Collection reveals a stunning old-heritage sound that’s unlike anything Taylor has ever produced — more reminiscent of flattop guitars from the 1930s and 1940s.

The guitars in the collection combine several new design elements that contribute to the sound — a new Super Auditorium body style, a unique V-Class-inspired bracing pattern, and a new longtenon neck joint — plus a new decorative aesthetic. The Gold Label Collection launches with two core models in different wood pairings: Honduran rosewood + torrefied Sitka spruce and figured Hawaiian koa + torrefied Sitka spruce. Each is offered with a choice of a natural or sunburst top.

A new Super Auditorium shape: The proportions resemble Taylor’s Grand Auditorium, but the body is slightly longer and the lower bout is slightly wider. Taylor chief guitar designer Andy Powers describes it as having a “classically proportioned set of curves.” (Note: Because of the family resemblance of the “Auditorium” shapes, Super Auditorium model numbers will also be designated with the “4” used to signify a Grand Auditorium elsewhere in the Taylor line. But within the Gold Label Collection, the “4” will always represent a Super Auditorium body.)

New Fanned V-Class bracing: This V-Class variant features a fan-like arrangement of braces in the soundboard’s lower bout. They are also set in place using traditional hot hide glue.

A new long-tenon neck joint: The long-tenon’s enhanced wood coupling translates into greater low-end resonance and a sound some might compare to historic guitars featuring dovetailstyle neck joints. (But this design remains glueless and brings even easier and more precise neck angle micro-adjustability to the guitar.)

The decorative design aesthetic draws inspiration from several sources of the past including classic banjos and mandolins, early Taylor designs, and Andy’s own pre-Taylor design work on his archtop guitars. 

Altered design elements include Taylor’s most iconic stylistic details: a new headstock shape featuring an angled back cut and a reinterpretation of the Taylor logo inlay, along with a new pickguard shape and design; The bridge borrows the elegantly contoured Curve Wing design used with the Builder’s Edition Collection, but on these guitars it’s made from Honduran rosewood rather than ebony, and incorporates bone bridge pins; A new “Continental” inlay motif; The guitars feature a specially designed Gold Label guitar label inside the guitar, and the guitars come in a different Taylor hardshell case (featuring a new exterior color, “British Cocoa,” with “Graphite” internal lining).

The guitar has a louder, fuller, deeper, more open sound, heavier-bodied high notes — the trebles are warmer, woodier and more rounded off, overall, a robust, muscular tone; it’s a guitar a player can really lean into, but it also produces a full-bodied tone in response to a light touch. Lastly, it retains the pitch accuracy that Andy’s V-Class architecture is known for.

Note: After close inspection, this instrument has an impression/dimple on the back low E string side edge. (See Pics)

• Serial #: 1210154111
• Top Material: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
• Back and Side Material: Hawaiian Koa
• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Tuning Machines: Gotoh 510, Antique Chrome with Ebony Buttons
• Nut Width: 1-3/4”
• Scale Length: 25-1/2”
• Bracing: Fanned V-Class
• Bridge: Honduran Rosewood “Curve Wing”
• Bridge Pins: Bone
• Nut: TUSQ
• Saddle: Micarta
• Finish: Gloss Body, Satin Neck
• Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
• Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light
• Guitar Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case, “British Cocoa” Vinyl Exterior, Graphite Interior
• Fretboard/Peghead Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl “Continental”
• Body/Soundhole Binding: Grained Ivoroid
• Top Purfling: On-Edge Grained Ivoroid, Honduran Rosewood and Black
• Back Purfling: On-Edge Grained Ivoroid and Black
• Rosette/Purfling: Single-Ring Paua, Black, Ivoroid and Honduran Rosewood
• Pickguard: Faux Tortoise Over Ivoroid with Engraved “Continental” Motif

The guitar pictured is the actual guitar that you will receive. It comes with Taylor's Factory Warranty and our 100% satisfaction guarantee! It will be professionally set up and ready to play before it leaves our store.

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