Short Description:

A Stunning Grand Auditorium with a Cedar Top and Mahogany Back and Sides.

What We Think:

Condition: Used, Excellent

SP Luthier Notes: This instrument has been carefully inspected and, if necessary, serviced by our certified luthier to ensure it is in excellent playing condition. 

The Taylor 514ce Legacy is a beautifully expressive Grand Auditorium that delivers warmth, clarity, and a refined, balanced voice. Its Western Red Cedar top offers a smooth, responsive attack with rich overtones, while the neo-tropical mahogany back and sides add focus, warmth, and a dry, woody character. The Grand Auditorium body with a Venetian cutaway provides excellent versatility, equally suited for fingerstyle nuance and fuller strumming. A comfortable mahogany neck paired with an ebony fingerboard creates a fluid, easy playing experience. Finished in gloss with elegant appointments like abalone accents and tortoise binding, it carries a timeless, understated look. Warm, articulate, and highly musical, this 514ce Legacy brings a voice that feels both intimate and dynamic!

Manufacturer Description:

The Legacy 514ce, initially conceived as part of Taylor's 50th anniversary celebration, pays homage to the Grand Auditorium body shape, a true Bob Taylor original that has redefined how acoustic guitars sound, look and feel since its debut in 1994. This exclusive Legacy collection model boasts a tonewood pairing not found in the Taylor standard line: mahogany back and sides with a top of Western Red cedar. With its punchy midrange and dry, woody character, mahogany is perfectly suited to pair with cedar's warmth and soft-touch sensitivity, which will especially appeal to fingerstyle players and strummers with a lighter stroke. Voiced with the X-bracing that Bob used in the first Grand Auditorium models three decades ago and crafted with Taylor's signature slim, easy-playing neck profile, the Legacy 514ce is sure to inspire both traditionalists and contemporary-minded players alike. Appointments reflect Bob's preferred sleek aesthetic with faux tortoiseshell binding and pickguard, white and black top purfling, Small Diamond fretboard inlays in mother-of-pearl, a three-ring rosette in green abalone, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, gold tuning machines, and a gloss-finished body with a satin finish for the neck. This model includes LR Baggs Element VTC electronics with soundhole-mounted controls and ships with a deluxe hardshell case.

Specifications:

Number of Strings: 6 String

Orientation: Right Handed

Body Shape: Grand Auditorium

Bracing System: X-Bracing

Cutaway: Venetian Cutaway

Color: Natural

Top Wood: Western Red Cedar

Back/Side Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany

Rosette: Green Abalone 3 Ring

Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge

Body Binding: Faux Tortoise

Armrest: None

Top Finish: Gloss

Back/Side Finish: Gloss

Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany

Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony

Fretboard Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Small Diamonds

Fretboard Binding: Faux Tortoise

Neck Finish: Satin

Nut Width: 1-3/4"

Peghead Veneer Wood: Indian Rosewood

Scale Length: 25-1/2"

Peghead Inlay: None

Peghead Type: Paddle

Peghead Binding: None

Peghead Finish: Gloss

Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony

Nut & Saddle: White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle

Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony with Green Abalone Dots

Pickguard: Tortoise

Tuners: Taylor Gold with Gold Buttons

Strap Pin: Gold

End Pin: Gold

Pickup: L.R. Baggs Element VTC

Case: Hardshell

Weight: 4lbs 6oz