Taylor Guitars Builder's Edition 717e Grand Pacific Spruce/Rosewood Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Natural

Part of Taylor’s inaugural class of Grand Pacific guitars, the Builder’s Edition 717e builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound. The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here. V-Class brings extra punch and sustain, along with improved intonation and musicality across the entire frequency spectrum. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom. It’s a voice comfortably rooted in a traditional sound, yet updated to offer more expressive musical range. As a Builder’s Edition model, the 717e also sports an array of premium, player-friendly features: chamfered body edges, rolled fretboard edges, and a new compound-carve neck profile, whose contours match the natural adjustments in the player’s hand position when moving up and down the fretboard. Even the bridge design was refined to add a more ergonomic feel for the player’s pick hand. Taylor’s noise-reducing Silent Satin finish displays the muted sheen of an older guitar, while elegantly understated appointments include mother-of-pearl Arrowhead fretboard and peghead inlays, with sapele binding. This edition also features our stage-ready ES2 electronics.

String Type: Steel

Number of Strings: 6

Body Shape: Round Shoulder Dreadnought

Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed

Color: Natural

Finish: Satin

Top Wood: Torrified Sitka Spruce

Back & Sides Wood: Indian Rosewood

Body Bracing: V-Class

Binding: Sapele

Neck Wood: Tropical Mahogany

Neck Shape: Compound Carve

Radius: 15"

Fingerboard Material: West African Ebony

Fingerboard Inlay: Mother-of-pearl Arrowheads

Number of Frets: 20

Scale Length: 25.5"

Tuning Machines: Taylor Nickel

Bridge Material: West African Ebony

Nut/Saddle Material: Black Graphite/Micarta

Nut Width: 1.75"

Electronics: ES2

Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze Medium

Case Included: Hardshell Case

Manufacturer Part Number: A70303401100358S000