Description
A Wild Honey Burst top and low-sheen finish heighten the old-soul aesthetic appeal of this Builder’s Edition Grand Pacific, which builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound. The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here. V-Class brings extra punch and sustain, along with improved intonation and musicality across the entire frequency spectrum. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom. It’s a voice comfortably rooted in a traditional sound, yet updated to offer more expressive musical range. As a Builder’s Edition model, the 717 also sports an array of premium, player-friendly features: chamfered body edges, rolled fretboard edges, and a new compound-carve neck profile, whose contours match the natural adjustments in the player’s hand position when moving up and down the fretboard. Even the bridge design was refined to add a more ergonomic feel for the player’s pick hand. Elegantly understated appointments include mother-of-pearl Arrowhead fretboard and peghead inlays, with sapele binding. It all adds up to a Taylor like you’ve never seen, heard or felt before.
- Scale Length – 25-1/2″
- Nut & Saddle – Black Graphite, Micarta saddle
- Bracing – V-Class
- Truss Rod Cover – West African Ebony
- Pickguard – None
- Number of Frets – 20
- Tuners – Taylor Nickel
- Case – Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral
- Brand of Strings – Elixir Phosphor Bronze Medium
- Body Length – 20”
- Body Width – 16”
- Body Depth – 4 5/8″
- Nut – 1 3/4″
- Back and Sides – Indian Rosewood
- Top – Sitka Spruce
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