Taylor Gold Label 517e - Sunburst #85029 (NAMM 2026)

Taylor Gold Label 517e, Ebony Fingerboard, Sunburst

*This instrument was on display at the 2026 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 warm-voiced Gold Label Collection grows to feature a powerhouse new Grand Pacific with a deeper body and sound.

Andy Powers has reimagined his Grand Pacific shape with a deeper-bodied design for the Gold Label Collection — it’s 3/8-inch deeper (5-inch body depth at the soundhole). The extra depth gives the guitar extra “lung capacity” and a deeper resonant frequency. This translates into more low-end expansiveness, power and projection. The guitar has more sonic push toward an audience or a microphone, yet with pleasing musical clarity. Even the treble notes have enhanced warmth and depth. 

Compared to the Gold Label Super Auditorium, the curves and depth of the Grand Pacific produce even more volume and tonal depth. Its voice is earthy, honest, and uncomplicated like sonic comfort food. A reliable acoustic workhorse both seasoned and soulful.

Fitting into the distinctive design aesthetic of the Gold Label Collection, the guitars feature Andy’s modified headstock shape with an angled back cut and scriptstyle Taylor logo inlay, a different pickguard shape, and a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge.

The 517e's clean, understated appointments reflect its down-to-earth, workhorse spirit. Its torrefied spruce top and mahogany back and sides are paired with a cream binding with simple black/white top purfling and a single-ring rosette in cream and black with black/white purfling. "Crest" inlay motif in cream features simple dot/diamond position markers in the fretboard crowned with a new headstock inlay. Finishing out the features are a mahogany neck with a West African Crelicam Ebony fingerboard, cream pickguard, Indian rosewood bridge pins, Taylor Nickel Tuning machines, and LR Baggs Element VTC electronics.

Exclusive to the Gold Label Collection, Taylor's new neck design combines the tonal benefits of a long-tenon neck joint with easy neck angle micro-adjustability, allowing the string height (action) to be tweaked with unprecedented ease and precision.

The long tenon extends deeper into the guitar body and, together with the heel structure, enhances the wood coupling to produce greater low-end resonance and a sound comparable to traditional neck designs. Like Taylor’s existing neck, the neck joint is glueless, but instead of incorporating tapered shims to calibrate the neck angle, the design is shimless.

Note: After close inspection, this instrument has impressions on the high E string side of the body. (See pics, light reflections used to show wear)

Specifications:

• Serial #: 1208285029
• Top Material: Torrefied Spruce
• Back and Side Material: Mahogany
• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Tuning Machines: Taylor Nickel
• Nut Width: 1-3/4"
• Scale Length: 25-1/2"
• Bracing: Fanned V-Class
• Bridge: Honduran Rosewood "Curve Wing"
• Bridge Pins: Indian Rosewood
• Nut: TUSQ
• Saddle: Micarta
• Finish: Gloss Body, Satin Neck
• Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
• Pickguard: Cream
• Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light
• Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell, "British Cocoa" Vinyl Exterior

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.

We are proud to have been chosen as one of a select few Taylor Guitars Online Preferred Dealers!