Complete with Sinker Redwood Raised from the River’s Depths
Combining elegant aesthetics with sophisticated playability and tone-enhancing details, the 800 series marks Taylor’s incredibly popular class of premium rosewood guitars. Now, the Taylor Builder’s Edition 814ce takes this revered series a step further with a truly exquisite arrangement of tonewoods. It starts with a rich, warm, and responsive sinker redwood top crafted with old-growth timber pulled from the depths of California’s rivers. Honduran rosewood back and sides then complement the top’s richness with a clear and articulate top-end shimmer, along with ample low-end heft. This amazing guitar plays gloriously, thanks to its comfortably sized and proportioned Grand Auditorium body, graceful beveled Venetian cutaway, and ergonomically radiused armrest. You’ll love the clear, balanced tone forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing and amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. As your eyes drink in this instrument’s understated elegance, your hands savor its flawless playability, and your ears revel in its rich, organic tone, you’ll treasure your Taylor 814ce Builder’s Edition. It’s a veritable feast for the senses!
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The Builder’s Edition collection
Taylor’s premium Builder’s Edition family of acoustic guitars is the brainchild of master guitar designer Andy Powers. Builder’s Edition guitars were created to highlight Taylor’s V-Class bracing system and to demonstrate Taylor’s most cutting-edge innovations. With a level of craftsmanship typically not offered on standard models, Builder’s Edition guitars provide players with an exemplary instrument that promises to inspire. According to Andy, “the Builder’s Edition concept is meant to be an expression of Taylor’s instrument-building imagination.” And what an incredible imagination it is!
Taylor’s commendable commitment to sustainability
The 814ce Builder’s Edition features beautiful premium solid tonewoods: a sinker redwood top, Honduran rosewood back and sides, a neo-tropical mahogany neck, and — demonstrating Taylor’s commitment to sustainability — a Crelicam ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay. Based in Cameroon, Crelicam is an international supplier of high-quality West African ebony that has raised the bar for socially and environmentally responsible forest resource management in the country. The company’s support for scientific research and replanting efforts helps cultivate a healthy forest economy for Cameroon.
Optimized volume, sustain, and intonation
With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible, for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and, hence, sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It’s the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation, not only producing notes that are louder and with longer sustain, but also more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience what guitarists at Sweetwater have already discovered.
Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence
Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 814ce Builder’s Edition, employs the width and depth of a dreadnought, so it delivers prodigious volume that makes it a “tone cannon” in its own right. However, its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium-bodied acoustic guitars more treble zing, in addition to improved playing comfort and a sleeker look. The 814ce’s Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note you play, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its V-Class-braced sinker redwood top.
Taylor Builder's Edition 814ce Features:
- Environmentally responsible solid premium tonewoods
- Graceful beveled Venetian cutaway gives you unfettered access to the high register
- Lush, warm, and responsive sinker redwood top crafted with old-growth timber pulled from the depths of California’s rivers
- Honduran rosewood back and sides round out your tone with deep bass, zingy highs, and a mild midrange
- Revolutionary V-Class bracing for optimized volume, sustain, and intonation
- Neotropical mahogany neck in Taylor’s player-favorite Standard Carve
- Crelicam West African ebony fingerboard with 15-in. radius, 20 frets, and shell/mother-of-pearl Element inlays
- Crelicam ebony headstock overlay with shell/mother-of-pearl Element inlay
- 1.75-in. TUSQ nut provides plenty of room for fingerpickers to navigate
- Crelicam ebony bridge and pins; Micarta saddle
- Gleaming Gotoh 510 antique gold tuning machines
- Stage-ready Taylor ES2 electronics