Taylor Gold Label 814e Koa – Natural #45018

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

~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 twocore 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 willalso 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-Classvariant features a fan-like arrangement of bracesin the soundboard’s lower bout. They are alsoset in place using traditional hot hide glue.

A new long-tenon neck joint: The long-tenon’senhanced wood coupling translates into greaterlow-end resonance and a sound some mightcompare to historic guitars featuring dovetailstyleneck joints. (But this design remainsglueless and brings even easier and more preciseneck angle micro-adjustability to the guitar.)

The decorative design aesthetic draws inspiration fromseveral sources of the past including classic banjosand mandolins, early Taylor designs, and Andy’s ownpre-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 Wingdesign used with the Builder’s Edition Collection, buton these guitars it’s made from Honduran rosewoodrather than ebony, and incorporates bone bridge pins; A new “Continental” inlay motif;The guitars feature a specially designed Gold Labelguitar label inside the guitar, and the guitars come in adifferent Taylor hardshell case (featuring a new exteriorcolor, “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.

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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