Taylor 714e Gold Label Acoustic Electric Guitar

The Taylor Gold Label 714e is a guitar of genuinely distinctive character within the Taylor range - a model that deliberately evokes the look, feel, and tonal voice of traditional steel-string acoustic design while delivering the precision playability and engineering refinement that defines Taylor's current approach at its finest. The Super Auditorium body shape is a subtle but meaningful evolution of Taylor's signature Grand Auditorium - slightly longer with a wider lower bout, producing a deeper, more open voice with warmer resonant lows, rounder trebles, and richer blooming overtones that suit the Indian rosewood and torrefied Sitka spruce pairing beautifully. Torrefied Sitka spruce's naturally played-in sweetness and enhanced responsiveness - achieved through Taylor's special roasting process - complements Indian rosewood's celebrated depth, harmonic complexity, and cross-spectrum tonal balance in a combination that is as tonally classic as the Gold Label's visual aesthetic suggests.

Inside, a fanned variant of Taylor's V-Class bracing with tonal rout dials up extra volume, depth, and sustain beyond the standard V-Class architecture, allowing the Super Auditorium body to project with authority and warmth across the full dynamic range. The Action Control Neck with slim profile and long-tenon joint provides easy, precise string height adjustment through the soundhole while the long tenon adds warmth and depth to the overall voice. Gold Label Collection exclusive details - a distinctive pickguard shape, angled-back modified headstock with script-style logo, cream binding with matching Crest fretboard and peghead inlays, cream single-ring rosette, Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with Indian rosewood bridge pins, firestripe pickguard, and full-body gloss finish - complete a guitar of understated elegance and traditional gravitas. LR Baggs Element VTC electronics deliver warm, detailed undersaddle amplified tone, and the British Cocoa Gold Label deluxe hardshell case completes a premium package from Taylor's most tonally and aesthetically considered collection.

Features

• Torrefied Sitka spruce top with solid Indian rosewood back and sides in a Super Auditorium body delivers a deep, open, and harmonically rich acoustic voice with warm resonant lows, round trebles, and blooming overtones - the played-in sweetness of torrefaction enhancing the classic spruce and rosewood tonal partnership.
• Fanned V-Class bracing with tonal rout dials up extra volume, depth, and sustain beyond standard V-Class architecture, allowing the Super Auditorium body to project with authority and warmth across the full dynamic range.
• Action Control Neck with slim profile and long-tenon joint allows easy, precise string height adjustment through the soundhole while the long tenon adds warmth and depth to the guitar's overall acoustic voice.
• Gold Label Collection exclusive appointments - distinctive pickguard shape, angled-back modified headstock with script-style logo, cream Crest inlays, Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with Indian rosewood pins, and full-body gloss finish - reflect a traditional, old-school aesthetic of considered elegance.
• LR Baggs Element VTC undersaddle electronics channel tone from the movement of the guitar's top for a remarkably warm and detailed amplified sound that suits the Gold Label's natural, organic acoustic character.

• Body: Super Auditorium
• Top: Solid torrefied Sitka spruce
• Back & sides: Solid Indian rosewood, 2-piece
• Bracing: Fanned V-Class with tonal rout
• Neck: Neo-tropical mahogany, standard carve profile
• Neck joint: Action Control Neck, long-tenon
• Fingerboard: West African Crelicam ebony
• Fingerboard binding: West African Crelicam ebony
• Fingerboard inlays: Cream Crest
• Peghead veneer: West African Crelicam ebony
• Peghead inlay: Cream Crest
• Peghead type: Paddle, angled-back modified, script logo
• Scale length: 25-1/2"
• Nut width: 1-3/4"
• Nut: White TUSQ
• Saddle: White Micarta
• Bridge: Honduran rosewood, Curve Wing
• Bridge pins: Indian rosewood
• Rosette: Cream (.075")/.032" black/cream (.075") single ring
• Body binding: Cream
• Top finish: Gloss
• Back & sides finish: Gloss
• Neck finish: Satin
• Peghead finish: Gloss
• Pickguard: Firestripe
• Tuners: Taylor nickel with nickel buttons
• Strap pin: Black
• End pin: Bronze
• Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
• Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light .012-.053
• Includes: Taylor Gold Label Deluxe hardshell case, British Cocoa exterior
• Made in: USA
• Colour: Natural