2024 - Taylor Custom #8 GA Sitka Spruce/Flame Maple - Lilac Wine - Catch Event/NAMM Instrument
Serial: 1203074122
Weight: 4 lbs 11 oz
$4,999.00
$3,999.20
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Originally conceived as a custom shop order for a long-time Taylor player, the Hot Rod Guitar (HR-LTD) debuted as a NAMM Special Edition model in 2003 with curly maple back and sides and a Sitka spruce top. Featuring red and yellow inlaid wooden flames reaching down the fretboard toward the Florentine cutaway and encircling the soundhole in a ring of fire, the limited-edition guitar came in two versions: a black Jumbo and a Grand Auditorium with red back and sides and a natural top. This updated custom build presents the same inlay scheme and visual aesthetic as the original black model, but with a cutaway Grand Auditorium body and figured Big Leaf maple. Updates include satinwood yellow flame inlays and the bloodwood for the red purfling. Modern performance-focused enhancements include innovative V-Class interior voicing architecture, ES2 electronics and satin black tuners. It ships in a brown deluxe hardshell case.
We had the amazing opportunity to pick this guitar up at the 2025 NAMM show!
Other specifications include:
- Number of Strings 6
- String Orientation Right Handed
- Body Shape Grand Auditorium
- Bracing System V-Class Bracing
- Cutaway Florentine
- Color Dark Top - Black
- Black Back/Side/Neck
- Electronics Expression System 2
- Case Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case
- Top Wood Sitka Spruce
- Back / Side Wood Big Leaf Maple
- Rosette Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
- Body Binding Black
- Armrest None
- Top Finish Gloss Back / Side Finish Gloss
- Neck Wood Hard Rock Maple
- Nut Width 1-3/4"
- Neck Profile Standard Carve
- Scale Length 25.5"
- Backstrap None
- Peghead Type Paddle
- Fretboard Wood West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Veneer Wood Indian Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlay Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
- Peghead Inlay None
- Fretboard Binding Black
- Peghead Binding None
- Neck Finish Satin
- Peghead Finish Gloss
- Bridge West African Crelicam Ebony Nut & Saddle
- Black TUSQ Nut
- White Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins West African Crelicam Ebony
- D'Addario XS Coated Phosphoer Bronze Light (.012 - 0.53)
- Pick Guard None
- Tuners Taylor Satin Black with Satin Black Buttons
- Strap Pin Gold End Pin Black
- 4 lbs 14 oz
- 1205015097
For more information on this Taylor Custom Instrument, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Taylor
- Series
- Custom
- Body Style
- Grand Auditorium
- Model
- Custom GA
- Actual Weight
- 4.14
- Color
- Black
- Condition
- Brand New
- Body Style
- Cutaway
- Strings
- 6
- Pickup
- Yes
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SKU: 1205015097
Weight:
4 lbs
14 oz
Taylor Custom #34 GA Hot Rod 3.0 Maple/Sitka Spruce - Black/NAMM Instrument
$4,999.00
- Condition:
- New
- UPC:
- 887766137382
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Description
Originally conceived as a custom shop order for a long-time Taylor player, the Hot Rod Guitar (HR-LTD) debuted as a NAMM Special Edition model in 2003 with curly maple back and sides and a Sitka spruce top. Featuring red and yellow inlaid wooden flames reaching down the fretboard toward the Florentine cutaway and encircling the soundhole in a ring of fire, the limited-edition guitar came in two versions: a black Jumbo and a Grand Auditorium with red back and sides and a natural top. This updated custom build presents the same inlay scheme and visual aesthetic as the original black model, but with a cutaway Grand Auditorium body and figured Big Leaf maple. Updates include satinwood yellow flame inlays and the bloodwood for the red purfling. Modern performance-focused enhancements include innovative V-Class interior voicing architecture, ES2 electronics and satin black tuners. It ships in a brown deluxe hardshell case.
We had the amazing opportunity to pick this guitar up at the 2025 NAMM show!
Other specifications include:
- Number of Strings 6
- String Orientation Right Handed
- Body Shape Grand Auditorium
- Bracing System V-Class Bracing
- Cutaway Florentine
- Color Dark Top - Black
- Black Back/Side/Neck
- Electronics Expression System 2
- Case Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case
- Top Wood Sitka Spruce
- Back / Side Wood Big Leaf Maple
- Rosette Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
- Body Binding Black
- Armrest None
- Top Finish Gloss Back / Side Finish Gloss
- Neck Wood Hard Rock Maple
- Nut Width 1-3/4"
- Neck Profile Standard Carve
- Scale Length 25.5"
- Backstrap None
- Peghead Type Paddle
- Fretboard Wood West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Veneer Wood Indian Rosewood
- Fretboard Inlay Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
- Peghead Inlay None
- Fretboard Binding Black
- Peghead Binding None
- Neck Finish Satin
- Peghead Finish Gloss
- Bridge West African Crelicam Ebony Nut & Saddle
- Black TUSQ Nut
- White Micarta Saddle
- Bridge Pins West African Crelicam Ebony
- D'Addario XS Coated Phosphoer Bronze Light (.012 - 0.53)
- Pick Guard None
- Tuners Taylor Satin Black with Satin Black Buttons
- Strap Pin Gold End Pin Black
- 4 lbs 14 oz
- 1205015097
For more information on this Taylor Custom Instrument, please contact us.
- Manufacturer
- Taylor
- Series
- Custom
- Body Style
- Grand Auditorium
- Model
- Custom GA
- Actual Weight
- 4.14
- Color
- Black
- Condition
- Brand New
- Body Style
- Cutaway
- Strings
- 6
- Pickup
- Yes
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