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With a beautiful sunburst top that echoes its old-school acoustic personality, the Gold Label 817e SB offers a bold visual twist on the classic slope-shoulder dreadnought experience. This deeper-bodied Grand Pacific model pairs Honduran rosewood back and sides with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, serving up a richly textured voice with clear trebles, rumbling lows and remarkable warmth across the frequency spectrum. The added body depth unlocks greater low-end expansiveness and projection. Fanned V-Class bracing—applied with hot hide glue—enhances volume, sustain and pitch consistency along the entire fretboard. A long-tenon Action Control Neck increases resonance and allows for on-the-fly string height adjustments through the soundhole. This model sports the Gold Label Collection’s modified headstock shape with an angled-back design and script-style Taylor logo. A stylized, dual-layer pickguard—with faux-tortoise over ivoroid—features an engraved motif that complements the mother-of-pearl Continental fretboard and peghead inlays. Additional appointments include a single-ring paua rosette, grained ivoroid body binding with ivoroid and Honduran rosewood edge trim, antique chrome Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony buttons, and a full-body gloss finish. The Gold Label 817e SB comes equipped with LR Baggs Element VTC electronics and ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case with a British Cocoa exterior.

SPECS:

HIGHLIGHTS:
Shape: Grand Pacific
Number of Strings: 6
Weight: 4.95 lbs
Bracing: Fanned V-Class with Tonal Route
Cutaway: None
Color: Gold Brown Sunburst Top, Natural Back/Sides
Electronics: LR Baggs - Element VTC
Case: Gold Label Hardshell Case British Cocoa

BODY:
Top Wood: Torrefied Spruce
Back/Side Wood: Honduran Rosewood
Rosette: Custom Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
Back Configuration: 4-Piece, Simons Wedge
Armrest: .080" Grained Ivoroid, Round Over Edges
Top Finish: Gloss
Back/Side Finish: Gloss

NECK:
Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Profile: Standard Carve
Fretboard Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Continental
Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin

PEGHEAD:
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Peghead Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
Scale Length: 25-1/2"
Peghead Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Continental
Peghead Type: Paddle
Peghead Finish: Gloss

OTHER:
Bridge: Honduran Rosewood
Bridge Pins: Bone
Nut and Saddle: White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
Pickguard: Ivoroid/Tortoise, with Engraving
Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Chrome with Ebony EN01 Buttons
Strap Pin: Black