Taylor 2025 Taylor Builder's Edition 514ce in Kona Burst with ES2 Electronics
Description
Presenting the Taylor Builder's Edition 514ce, this one with the Kona Burst top. This one is a 2025 model featuring Taylor's ES2 Electronics. The Builder’s Edition 514ce Kona Burst embodies Taylor’s commitment to innovative craftsmanship, player-friendly guitar designs and sustainable sourcing. Featuring a beveled armrest and cutaway, chamfered body edges and a contoured Curve Wing bridge, this Grand Auditorium is designed for maximum comfort during extended playing sessions. Shamel ash back and sides, responsibly sourced from Southern California, combine with a solid Sitka spruce top to deliver a warm, focused voice with woody overtones, punchy midrange, crisp trebles and a balanced low-end presence. Taylor's V-Class voicing architecture enhances sustain, volume, and harmonic agreement between notes. Excellent for strumming, fingerstyle, and everything in between, this model excels in just about any musical setting. A hand-sprayed Kona Burst and lustrous gloss finish are accentuated by a firestripe pickguard, an Italian acrylic rosette and Compass inlays. The Builder’s Edition 514ce comes equipped with premium Gotoh 510 antique chrome tuners and ES2 electronics and ships in a deluxe hardshell case. Photos are of the actual guitar for sale, SN 1203175060 Highlights Number of Strings: 6 String Orientation: Right Handed Body Shape: Grand Auditorium Bracing System: V-Class Bracing Cutaway: Beveled Cutaway Color: Tobacco Kona Burst Electronics: Expression System® 2 Case/Bag: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown Body Top Wood: Sitka Spruce Back/Side Wood: Shamel Ash Rosette: Faux Pearl Single Ring Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge Body Binding: No Binding; Chamfered Edges Armrest: Beveled Neo-tropical Mahogany Top Finish: Gloss Back/Side Finish: Gloss Neck Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony Neck Profile: Standard Carve Fretboard Inlay: Faux Pearl Compass Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony Neck Finish: Satin Peghead Nut Width: 1-3/4" Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony Scale Length: 25-1/2" Peghead Inlay: Faux Pearl Compass Peghead Type: Paddle, Standard Peghead Binding: None Peghead Finish: Satin Other Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053) Pickguard: Firestripe Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Gold with Antique Gold Buttons Strap Pin: Black End Pin: Black