Taylor DDSM (Doyle Dykes Signature Model)

This guitar was purchased as a collectors piece, and remains in near-new condition. The quality, craftsmanship, sound and playability is absolutely remarkable on these instruments.

The Taylor Doyle Dykes DDSM signature acoustic-electric guitar brings you the incredible tone of a premium Grand Auditorium-sized acoustic, with beautiful appointments and stage-friendly features worthy of the fingerstyle legend. The DDSM has a solid Sitka spruce top, beautiful big leaf maple back and sides, and an elegant ebony neck with distinctive pearl inlays. The comfortable hard rock maple neck is amazingly playable. You also get a Florentine single cutaway and an onboard L.R. Baggs pickup system for top-notch live performance from the DDSM.

Doyle Dykes is widely hailed as one of the greatest acoustic fingerstylists in the world, and a guitarist with few peers in any genre. The DDSM acoustic-electric 6-string is the product of several years of collaboration, and features a "thin-body" Grand Auditorium body with Florentine cutaway, a white rose peghead inlay made from mother of pearl and abalone, and mother of pearl "Chet"-style fretmarkers.

Great acoustic tone is essential for great performances, but sometimes you need equally stellar amplified tone - not just an adequate pickup to plug into the PA, but an electronics system that makes the guitar's true tone really live and breathe when plugged in. That's why this great guitar features an L.R. Baggs pickup system. You'll be amazed how natural and responsive this guitar sounds, whether you're onstage or on the couch!

Like all Taylor products, the DDSM combines great tonewoods and components with an innovative approach to guitarmaking. Using time-tested methods in concert with cutting-edge processes, Taylor's craftsmen are able to make incredible-sounding, reliable instruments that you can depend on for great tone and road-ready performance.