Taylor Builder's Edition
Builder’s Edition guitars are engineered from top to bottom to provide you with an effortless playing experience. Taylor is revered throughout the acoustic world for the superb playability of its 6-strings, and the Builder’s Edition collection ups the ante further with high-end appointments such as rolled fingerboard edges, beveled armrests, beveled cutaways, and chamfered edges. All these features are fine-tuned to ensure optimal playing comfort and to elevate the art of acoustic craftsmanship. With a Builder’s Edition guitar in your collection, you’ll enjoy the very best of acoustic innovation, playability, and luxury.
Hand-friendly Beveled Cutaway
One of the Builder’s Edition collection’s most well-performing hallmarks is found in Taylor’s beveled cutaway. Taylor cutaways are already revered for their impeccable fret access, and the Builder’s Edition bevel enhances your reach even further with its sleek and smoothed-over design. Moreover, this feature also greatly increases your fretting hand’s comfort when performing big upper-register stretches, as it all but eliminates the heel from the equation.
Refined Body Shapes and Voices
The Taylor Builder’s Edition collection comprises a select variety of distinct body shapes, supplying you with a vast range of sonic options to explore. These guitars represent the very peak of Taylor’s forward-looking 6-string philosophy, often introducing cutting-edge features and shapes that later find their way into Taylor’s standard 6-string offerings. And while the series comprises a vast range of sonic signatures to explore, every Builder’s Edition model sings with rich, full tone and boasts premium, playability-focused features.
Curated Tonewood Pairings
An ultra-modern motif serves as the Builder’s Edition collection’s visual calling card; these are 21st-century 6-strings through and through. And while that cutting-edge quality is often reflected in the series’ distinctive tonewood pairings, the Builder’s Edition is also revered for pairing innovative instruments with time-tested timber combinations. That said, no matter which Taylor Builder’s Edition model you sling up, you can rest assured that your guitar boasts ultra-premium tonewoods from stem to stern.
Comfort-enhancing Beveled Armrest
Every model in the Builder’s Edition collection boasts a beautifully beveled armrest on the guitar’s lower bout. It’s a truly striking appointment that also ensures ample comfort during long gigs and sessions. What’s more, because the player rests their arm on the beveled edge instead of the top, the guitar’s top is allowed to vibrate unimpeded, singing with enhanced projection and warmth.
