Taylor Builder's Edition 814ce Adirondack Spruce Acoustic Guitar - Shaded Edgeburst

The Taylor 814ce Builder’s Edition is a veritable feast for the senses, and it's waiting for you at Sadek Music. Combining elegant aesthetics with sophisticated playability and tone-enhancing details, the Taylor 814ce Builder’s Edition, available at Sadek Music, elevates Taylor's already revered 800 Series of premium rosewood guitars. This masterpiece starts with an Adirondack spruce top, a tonewood prized by guitarists for its chest-thumping unplugged depth and projection. Complementing the top’s richness is Honduran rosewood on the back and sides, delivering a clear and articulate top-end shimmer, along with ample low-end heft.  The 814ce Builder’s Edition plays gloriously thanks to its comfortably sized Grand Auditorium body, graceful beveled Venetian cutaway, and ergonomically radiused armrest. You’ll fall in love with the clear, balanced tone forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing, amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. As your eyes admire its understated elegance, your hands savor the flawless playability, and your ears revel in its rich, organic tone.

The Builder’s Edition collection

Taylor’s premium Builder’s Edition family of acoustic guitars is the brainchild of master guitar designer Andy Powers. Builder’s Edition guitars were created to highlight Taylor’s V-Class bracing system and to demonstrate Taylor’s most cutting-edge innovations. With a level of craftsmanship typically not offered on standard models, Builder’s Edition guitars provide players with an exemplary instrument that promises to inspire. According to Andy, “the Builder’s Edition concept is meant to be an expression of Taylor’s instrument-building imagination.” And what an incredible imagination it is!

Taylor’s commendable commitment to sustainability

The Taylor 814ce Builder’s Edition, available at Sadek Music, features a stunning array of premium solid tonewoods: an Adirondack spruce top, Honduran rosewood back and sides, and a neo-tropical mahogany neck. True to Taylor’s commitment to sustainability, this guitar also includes a Crelicam ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay. The 814ce Builder’s Edition features beautiful premium solid tonewoods: an Adirondack spruce top, Honduran rosewood back and sides, a neo-tropical mahogany neck, and — demonstrating Taylor’s commitment to sustainability — a Crelicam ebony fingerboard, bridge, and headstock overlay. Based in Cameroon, Crelicam is an international supplier of high-quality West African ebony that has raised the bar for socially and environmentally responsible forest resource management in the country. The company’s support for scientific research and replanting efforts helps cultivate a healthy forest economy for Cameroon.

Optimized volume, sustain, and intonation

With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible — for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and, hence, sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It’s the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation, not only producing notes that are louder and with longer sustain, but more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. Pick up a Taylor with V-Class bracing and experience what guitarists at Sadek Music have already discovered.

Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence

Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 814ce Builder’s Edition, employs the width and depth of a dreadnought, so it delivers prodigious volume that makes it a “tone cannon” in its own right. However, its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium-bodied acoustic guitars more treble zing, in addition to improved playing comfort and a sleeker look. The 814ce’s Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note you play, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its V-Class-braced Adirondack spruce.

Taylor Builder's Edition 814ce Features:

• Environmentally responsible solid premium tonewoods
• Graceful beveled Venetian cutaway gives you unfettered access to the high register
• Adirondack spruce top resounds with authoritative projection and a clear, crisp voice
• Honduran rosewood back and sides round out your tone with deep bass, zingy highs, and a mild midrange
• Revolutionary V-Class bracing for optimized volume, sustain, and intonation
• Neo-tropical mahogany neck in Taylor’s player-favorite Standard Carve
• Crelicam West African ebony fingerboard with 15-in. radius, 20 frets, and shell/mother-of-pearl Element inlays
• Crelicam ebony headstock overlay with shell/mother-of-pearl Element inlay
• 1.75-in. TUSQ nut provides plenty of room for fingerpickers to navigate
• Crelicam ebony bridge and pins; Micarta saddle
• Gleaming Gotoh 510 antique gold tuning machines
• Stage-ready Taylor ES2 electronics

Tech Specs

• String Type:Steel
• Number of Strings:6
• Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
• Body Shape:Builder's Edition 814ce Grand Auditorium
• Back & Sides Wood:Solid Honduran Rosewood
• Top Wood:Solid Adirondack Spruce
• Top Finish:Gloss
• Color:Shaded Edgeburst
• Body Bracing:V-Class Bracing
• Neck Wood:Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Finish:Satin
• Neck Shape:Standard Carve
• Radius:15"
• Fingerboard Material:Crelicam Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay:Dots
• Number of Frets:20
• Scale Length:25.5"
• Nut Width:1.75"
• Nut Material:Black Tusq
• Saddle Material:White Micarta
• Bridge Material:Crelicam Ebony
• Tuning Machines:Gotoh 510
• Electronics:Taylor ES-2 preamp
• Strings:D'Addario XS Coated Light, .012-.053
• Case/Gig Bag:Hardshell Case