Taylor Builder's Edition 717e #1110169084

Part of Taylor’s inaugural class of Grand Pacific guitars, the Builder’s Edition 717e builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound. The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here. V-Class brings extra punch and sustain, along with improved intonation and musicality across the entire frequency spectrum. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom. It’s a voice comfortably rooted in a traditional sound, yet updated to offer more expressive musical range. As a Builder’s Edition model, the 717e also sports an array of premium, player-friendly features: chamfered body edges, rolled fretboard edges, and a new compound-carve neck profile, whose contours match the natural adjustments in the player’s hand position when moving up and down the fretboard. Even the bridge design was refined to add a more ergonomic feel for the player’s pick hand. Taylor’s noise-reducing Silent Satin finish displays the muted sheen of an older guitar, while elegantly understated appointments include mother-of-pearl Arrowhead fretboard and peghead inlays, with sapele binding. This edition also features our stage-ready ES2 electronics.

Other specifications include:

• Shape Grand Pacific
• Top Wood Sitka Spruce
• Body Wood Indian Rosewood
• Electronics Expression System 2
• Nut & Saddle Black Graphite, Micarta saddle
• Scale Length 25-1/2"
• Bracing V-Class
• Truss Rod Cover West African Ebony
• Pickguard None
• Number of Frets 20
• Tuners Taylor Nickel
• Case Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral
• Brand of Strings Elixir Phosphor Bronze Medium
• Body Length 20”
• Body Width 16”
• Body Depth 4 5/8"
• Binding/Edge Treatment Sapele
• Top Finish Silent Satin
• Back Config 2-piece No Wedge
• Backstrap Finish None
• Rosette Size Single Ring
• Bridge Inlay None
• Back/Side Finish Silent Satin
• Armrest Binding None
• Backstrap Wood None
• Rosette Mat. Black Sapele/Maple
• Wedge None
• Armrest no
• Neck Width 1-3/4"
• Fretboard Inlay Arrowheads, Mother of Pearl
• Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment West African Ebony
• Heel Cap Binding West African Ebony
• Type of Neck Joint Scarf
• Neck/Heel Tropical Mahogany
• Fretboard Wood West African Ebony
• Neck Finish Satin
• Heel Length 3-1/2"
• Peghead Finish Satin
• Peghead Binding None
• Peghead Type Standard
• Peghead Purfling None
• Headstock Overlay West African Ebony
• Peghead Inlay Arrowheads, Mother of Pearl
• Peghead Logo Taylor Mother of Pearl
• Bridge Pins West African Ebony
• Buttons Nickel
• Fingerboard Ext None
• Edge Trim None
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