Next Generation Builder's Edition 814CE Blacktop

From Taylor:

"Updated this year with new features that enhance its sound and musical utility, this Builder's Edition 814ce Blacktop offers a richly appointed take on our flagship Grand Auditorium with a tone that's bolder than ever. Back and sides of solid Indian rosewood paired with an Adirondack spruce top generate a complex voice with blooming overtones that resonate around clear trebles, warm lows and exceptional power. Inside, a new scalloped variant of our V-Class architecture provides an additional boost to volume, sustain and tonal depth, also improving pitch accuracy and harmony all the way up the neck. Player-centered touches include a beveled armrest, matching cutaway and chamfered body edges for a truly seamless feel, while our new onboard Claria System pickup features intuitive soundhole-mounted preamp controls that make it easy to plug in and play on the fly. Appointments complementing the striking black top color treatment include a full-body gloss with a Kona edgeburst for the back and sides, Element fretboard inlays, Gotoh 510 tuners in antique gold, an abalone rosette, maple binding with black and rosewood edge trim, and a rosewood pickguard."

Blacktop with the Kona Edgeburst back and sides, Gloss top and body finish, Grand Auditorium body shape with the beveled cutaway and armrest, Adirondack Spruce top, Single Ring Green Abalone Rosette and bound soundhole, Scalloped V-Class bracing with Relief Rout, Indian Rosewood back and sides, Chamfered body edges with the Maple/Rosewood top and Maple back edge trim, West African Crelicam Ebony fingerboard with the Mother of Pearl Element inlays on a Neo-Tropical Mahogany neck, 25.5” scale length, 1 3/4” nut width, Gotoh 510 tuners, With the Claria pickup system and hardshell case