Taylor 814CE Builders Edition Rosewood & Adirondack

The Builder’s Edition 814ce takes Taylor’s flagship Grand Auditorium to new heights, pairing Honduran rosewood back and sides with a torrefied Adirondack spruce top. With V-Class bracing, premium comfort features, and exquisite appointments, it offers unmatched tonal depth, sustain, and playability.

Among the suite of material refinements are a soundboard upgrade from solid Sitka
spruce to a carefully matched four-piece top of solid Adirondack spruce. The high-
end craftsmanship reflected in the Builder’s Edition philosophy acknowledges the
evolving future of the world’s forests, where a great soundboard will require careful
woodworking joinery to utilize smaller sizes of the high-grade timber preferred for an heirloom instrument. The artful craftsmanship yields a high-quality soundboard and
displays a beautifully consistent grain structure.

Additional comfort-enhancing woodworking details that distinguish this edition from
its standard-model counterpart include an elegantly sculpted beveled cutaway for
effortless high-register access, along with a beveled mahogany armrest that provides a smooth surface for the player’s strumming arm. Other refinements include nuanced alterations in the taper of the body, a modified V-Class voicing, and a subtle alteration to the gloss finish. (This is the only Builder’s Edition model to feature a gloss finish to highlight the beautiful contouring of the body.) The back and sides boast a Kona edgeburst.

Other premium appointments include Gotoh 510 tuners in antique gold, which offer a highly precise 21:1 gear ratio, a contoured Curve Wing bridge (exclusive to Builder’s Edition models), alternating maple and black top purfling with rosewood edge trim, and a rosewood pickguard. The Builder’s Edition 814ce includes a deluxe hardshell case and onboard ES2 pickup system.

Specifications

Body

• Shape: Grand Auditorium with Venetian cutaway

• Top: Solid Adirondack spruce (thermo-cured)

• Back & Sides: Solid Honduran rosewood

• Bracing: V-Class bracing

• Finish: Full gloss with Kona or Shaded Edgeburst

• Armrest: Beveled armrest and chamfered body edges

• Pickguard: Rosewood

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck: Neo-Tropical Mahogany, Standard Carve

• Fingerboard: West African Crelicam Ebony

• Scale Length: 25.5”

• Nut Width: 1-3/4” (approx. 44.5 mm)

• Inlays: Element, shell & pearl

Hardware

• Bridge: Ebony Curve Wing bridge

• Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Gold, 21:1 ratio

• Nut & Saddle: Bone

• Electronics: Taylor Expression System® 2

Other

• Case: Taylor deluxe hardshell case included

• Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze Light