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Taylor Builder's Edition 816ce - Natural
Leading the way for our newly redesigned Grand Symphony body shape, the Builder’s Edition 816ce highlights the transformative Taylor design philosophy with lovingly crafted contours, an expansive acoustic tone, and player-focused enhancements. The ultimate playing experience begins with Indian rosewood back and sides paired with a Lutz spruce top, offering all the low-end warmth and sparkle you’d expect from the classic rosewood/spruce combination with additional bloom and resonance added by V-Class bracing. But this Builder’s Edition model truly shines in the details, starting with its most significant innovation: the soundport cutaway. Crafted to resemble a partial Florentine cutaway, the design keeps the guitar’s full back intact while still allowing easy access to the high-register frets. The additional soundhole adds a truly new dimension of acoustic sound, creating a wide-angle sound that would fit as well in a classical orchestra as it would a rock band or a fingerstyle solo act. For aesthetics, we’ve appointed this model with a host of our most player-centric features, including figured maple binding with chamfered edges and rosewood edge trim, a single-ring rosette in green abalone, Windansea inlays in shell and mother-of-pearl, and ultra-precise Gotoh 510 tuners in antique gold. The guitar ships with ES2 electronics in a deluxe Western Floral hardshell case.
N Stuff SKU: |
BE816CE |
Manufacturer: |
Taylor |
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Specifications: |
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| HIGHLIGHTS: | |
| Shape: | Grand Symphony |
| Number of Strings: | 6 |
| Scale Length: | 24-7/8" |
| Body Length: | 20" |
| Body Width: | 16 1/4" |
| Body Depth: | 4 5/8" |
| Nut and Saddle: | Tusq Nut/Micarta Saddle |
| Bracing: | V-Class |
| Truss Rod Cover: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Pickguard: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Number Of Frets: | 20 |
| Tuners: | Gotoh |
| Electronics: | Expression System 2 |
| Case: | Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown |
| BODY: | |
| Top Wood: | Lutz Spruce |
| Body Wood: | Indian Rosewood |
| Binding: | Rock Maple |
| Top Finish: | Silent Satin |
| Back Config: | 2-piece No Wedge |
| Backstrap Wood: | None |
| Backstrap Finish: | None |
| Rosette Size: | Single Ring |
| Rosette Material: | Abalone |
| Bridge Inlay: | None |
| Back/Side Finish: | Silent Satin |
| Armrest Binding: | None |
| Stain/Sunburst: | Natural |
| Wedge: | None |
| NECK: | |
| Neck Width: | 1-3/4" |
| Fretboard Wood: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Fretboard Inlay: | Windansea |
| Fretboard Binding: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Heel Cap Binding: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Neck/Heel: | Tropical Mahogany |
| Heel Length: | 3-1/2" |
| Neck Finish: | Satin |
| Type Of Neck Joint: | Scarf |
| PEGHEAD: | |
| Peghead Finish: | Satin |
| Peghead Binding: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Peghead Type: | Standard |
| Peghead Purfling: | Maple |
| Peghead Inlay: | Windansea |
| Peghead Logo: | Taylor Mother of Pearl |
| Headstock Overlay: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| OTHER: | |
| Bridge Pins: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Buttons: | Gold |
| Fingerboard Ext: | None |
| Edge Trim: | Maple/Indian Rosewood |
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