The Builder's Edition philosophy
Each guitar in the Builder's Edition family represents the pinnacle of Taylor's design philosophy: comfortable, welcoming guitars with a rich, robust sound and stunning aesthetics.
Designed for the ultimate playing experience
?With our finest craftsmanship, the Builder's Edition family represents a new level of comfort, playability and sound in acoustic guitars.?SOUND, refined musicality
Builder's Edition guitars are designed to deliver exceptional sound quality. Subtle modifications to the body shape, tone-enhancing inner bracing, premium tone woods and other tuning adjustments result in complex and sophisticated sound profiles that transcend boundaries between genres, playing styles and musical applications.
FEEL, unrivalled playability
No guitar sounds as good as it feels in the player's hands. With innovative design elements such as bevelled armrests, modified cutaways, chamfered edges and subtly modified neck profiles, Builder's Edition guitars strengthen the bond between player and instrument.
V-Class damper
Our revolutionary new sound engine powers every Builder's Edition guitar, reshaping the sound to produce more volume and sustain, with better-tuned notes from top to bottom.
914CE BE GRAND AUDITORIUM SINKER REDWOOD
Crafted with top-tier tonewoods and master-level detailing, the Builder's Edition 914ce raises the bar for our family of refined, player-focused acoustic guitars. This Grand Auditorium features back and sides of solid Honduran rosewood, a dense, hard wood that yields stunning harmonic texture with warm lows, piano-like trebles and a smooth attack. We've selected sinker redwood for the top, a wood sourced from old-growth logs submerged in Northern California riverbeds. Redwood's warmth and touch sensitivity are comparable to cedar, but with a higher volume ceiling and an enhanced dynamic range. With our V-Class bracing inside, the result is a high-fidelity sound complemented by lush overtones and remarkable pitch precision. Comfort-enhancing features include a beveled armrest and cutaway, chamfered body edges, and a smooth Curve Wing bridge, yielding a truly seamless feel. The Builder's Edition 914ce is artfully detailed with Hawaiian koa purfling, paua edge trim, an ebony backstrap, Gotoh 510 tuners in antique gold, Belle Fleur inlays in paua and mother-of-pearl, and a gorgeous Kona edgeburst for the back and sides with a full-body gloss finish.
Highlights
Grand Auditorium
Taylor?s signature shape embodies the ultimate all-purpose acoustic.
Honduran Rosewood
Extremely dense compared to other rosewood species, Honduran rosewood sings with a uniquely smooth voice that makes it worthy of our finest guitars.
Sinker Redwood
Tight grain structure and cross-grain stiffness produce a bold and brilliant response with warm overtones. Think cedar on steroids.
Expression System® 2
The Expression System® 2 captures more of a guitar?s dynamic properties using a breakthrough behind-the-saddle design.
Beveled Cutaway
Our beveled cutaway design provides a more player-friendly feel for guitarists who utilize every inch of the fretboard. It features a compound design with a smoothened edge along the corner of the body between the end of the cutaway and the neck heel, providing a more comfortable feel for the fretting hand.
Specifications
Body
- Top Wood : Sinker Redwood
- Back Configuration : 2-piece or 4-piece Simons Wedge
- Body Binding : Rock Maple
- Top Finish : Gloss
- Back/Side Finish : Gloss
Neck
- Neck Wood : Neo-Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Fretboard Inlay : Belle Fleur, Mother of Pearl
- Fretboard Binding : None
- Neck Finish : Satin
- Scale Length : 25-1/2"
- Peghead Inlay : Belle Fleur, Mother of Pearl
- Peghead Type : Paddle, Standard
- Peghead Binding : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Finish : Gloss
Other
- Bridge : West African Crelicam Ebony
- Nut & Saddle : Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins : West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
- Strings : D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
- Pickguard : None
- Tuners : Gotoh
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