Item: TOD614CE

The 614CE V-class guitar stands out as one of the most touch-sensitive models in the entire Taylor acoustic line. Whether you play fingerstyle arrangements or strum in alternate tunings, whatever your preferred musical style, the 614CE pays musical dividends on what you put into it. On this maple and spruce Grand Auditorium, a torrefied (specially roasted) Sitka spruce top and Taylor's tone-enhancing V-Class bracing take tone and versatility to a whole new level. One of the distinctive traits of maple as a tonewood is its sonic transparency, which makes it wonderfully player-reflective. Whatever the player brings to the guitar comes through, it can be played to sound warm or bright. The roasting process for the top elicits a more played-in tone, and together with the V-Class bracing gives the player a more expressive tool in the form of increased dynamic range, greater projection, longer sustaining notes, and more harmonic agreement with chords up the entire fretboard. Aesthetic touches include a hand-rubbed Brown Sugar stain that highlights the rich figure of the maple back and sides, along with ebony binding, a paua abalone rosette trimmed with ebony and grained ivoroid, and “Wings” fretboard and peghead inlays in grained ivoroid. Add the Taylor Expression 2 System preamp, and you have an extremely versatile and impressive instrument.

Serial # 1209012160

Features:

• Torrefied Sitka Spruce Top
• V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout
• Single Ring Abalone, Ebony and Ivoroid Purfling Soundhole Rosette
• Striped Macassar Ebony Pickguard
• West African Ebony and Ivoroid Striped Top Trim
• Brown Sugar Stained Figured Maple Back and Sides
• West African Ebony Binding
• 16" Lower Bout Width with 4 5/8" Body Depth
• Venetian Cutaway
• Thin 4.5 Mils UV Cured Polished Gloss Finish Body
• Hard Rock Maple Brown Sugar Stained Satin Finished Standard Carve Neck
• 25 1/2" Scale Length
• 1 3/4" Width Black Graphite Nut
• West African Ebony 20 Fret 15" Radius Fingerboard
• Grained Ivoroid "Wings" Position Inlays
• West African Ebony Headstock Overlay
• Grained Ivoroid "Wings" Inlay and Taylor Logo
• Taylor Enclosed Chrome Plated Nickel Tuners
• Ebony Standard Peghead Backstrap with Grained Ivoroid "Wings" Inlay
• Hide Glued Ebony Bridge with Compensated Micarta Saddle and Ebony Bridge Pins
• Taylor ES-2 Expression System 2 Acoustic Electronics
• Elixir (16052) Phosphor Bronze Light Gauge String Set

Includes:

• Taylor Deluxe Grand Auditorium Dark Brown Hardshell Case
• Taylor Guitars' Limited Lifetime Warranty