Launched in January 2025, Taylor’s Gold Label Collection introduced a rounder, warmer, more robust flavor of acoustic tone inspired by an older, more traditional acoustic sound — a dramatically different sonic personality from anything previously crafted by Taylor. Among the key tone-shaping design features were a new Super Auditorium body style, new bracing architecture, and Taylor’s patented new long-tenon Action Control Neck. Together, the design elements create a voice rich with old- school character, coupled with modern playability refinements that extend Taylor’s legacy of exceptional playability.

Andy Powers has reimagined his Grand Pacific shape with a deeper-bodied design for the Gold Label Collection — it’s 3/8-inch deeper (5-inch body depth at the soundhole). The extra depth gives the guitar extra “lung capacity” and a deeper resonant frequency. This translates into more low-end expansiveness, power and projection — the guitar has more sonic push toward an audience or a microphone, yet with pleasing musical clarity. Even the treble notes have enhanced warmth and depth. Compared to the Gold Label Super Auditorium, the curves and depth of the Grand Pacific produce even more volume and tonal depth. Its voice is earthy, honest and uncomplicated — like sonic comfort food. A reliable acoustic workhorse — both seasoned and soulful. Fitting into the distinctive design aesthetic of the Gold Label Collection, the guitars feature Andy’s modified headstock shape with an angled back cut and script- style Taylor logo inlay, a different pickguard shape, and a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge.

Features:

• Clean, understated appointments reflect a down-to-earth, workhorse spirit:
• “Crest” inlay motif in cream featuring simple dot/diamond position markers in the fretboard crowned with a new headstock inlay
• Cream binding with simple black/white top purfling and a single-ring rosette in cream and black with black/white purfling
• Pickguard color: Firestripe (natural, sunburst top) or cream (blacktop, sunburst top)
• Indian rosewood bridge pins

General:
Brand Name: Taylor
Case Type: Hardshell Case
Hardware Color: Nickel
Made in: Made in the USA
Product Color: Natural
Serial Number: 1205205085
Series: Taylor 700 Series
Weight: 4lbs 15oz

Body:
Body Binding: Cream Binding
Body Finish: Gloss
Body Material: Indian Rosewood
Body Notes: 5" Body Depth at Soundhole (3/8" deeper than standard Grand Pacific)
Body Shape: Grand Pacific
Bracing Pattern: Fanned V-Class
Purfling: Black/White Purfling
Rosette: Single Ring
Top Material: Torrefied Sitka Spruce

Neck:
Fingerboard Inlay: "Crest" Inlays Motif w/Dot/Diamond Markers
Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
Frets to Body: 14
Headstock Inlay or Decal: Script-Style Taylor Logo w/Cream "Crest"
Headstock Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Binding: Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin
Neck Joint: Taylor Long-Tenon Action Control Neck
Neck Material: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Neck Shape: Standard Carve
Number of Frets: 20 Frets
Nut Material: White TUSQ
Nut Width: 1.75"
Side Marker Inlay: Silver Dots
Truss Rod: Adjustable

Electronics:
Acoustic Electronics: L.R. Baggs Element VTC
Controls and Switching: Volume & Tone

Hardware:
Bridge: Honduran Rosewood "Curve Wing"
Bridge Pins: Indian Rosewood
Pickguard: Firestripe Celluloid
Saddle Material: White Micarta
Tuning Machines: Standard Taylor Nickel