With its deep, expansive voice and extraordinary projection, the Taylor Gold Label 517e adds a powerful new dimension to the Gold Label Collection. Designed to produce an older, more traditional acoustic sound, this model blends warm, old-school tone with modern playability.

Crafted with solid mahogany back and sides and a natural torrefied Sitka spruce top for a mature, played-in sound from day one, this gloss-finish Grand Pacific model offers a rich midrange character with a clear, woody response. Our round-shoulder dreadnought shape—updated here with a slightly deeper body—delivers incredible low-end power while a slender, satin-finish Taylor neck provides smooth playability. Inside, fanned V-Class bracing boosts volume, lengthens sustain and improves intonation along the entire fretboard. Taylor's patented long-tenon Action Control Neck™ joint enhances the wood coupling between neck and body to boost low-end resonance while enabling easy and precise adjustments to string height.

Showcasing the Gold Label Collection’s unique design details, this model features a modified headstock with an angled back cut and script-style Taylor logo inlay and a firestripe pickguard with a distinct shape. The appointment package also includes a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with Indian rosewood bridge pins, cream-colored Crest inlays on the fretboard and peghead, cream body binding, and a cream single-ring rosette. Outfitted with Taylor nickel tuners and LR Baggs Element VTC electronics, the Gold Label 517e ships in a British Cocoa deluxe hardshell case.

Specs: 

• Body Shape: Grand Pacific
• Top Material: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
• Back Material: Tropical Mahogany
• Sides Material: Tropical Mahogany
• Body Finish: Gloss
• Neck Material: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Shape: Standard Carve
• Scale Length: 25-1/2"
• Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Fingerboard Radius: 15"
• Number of Frets: 20
• Nut Material: TUSQ
• Nut Width: 1-3/4"
• Bridge Material: Honduran Rosewood (Curve Wing)
• Saddle Material: Micarta
• Tuning Machines: Taylor Nickel
• Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
• Pickup Type: LR Baggs Element (undersaddle)
• Preamp: LR Baggs VTC
• Controls: Volume and Tone (thumbwheels)
• String Gauge: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• String Material: Phosphor Bronze
• Truss Rod: Adjustable
• Binding Material: Cream
• Inlays: Cream Crest
• Rosette: Cream single-ring