Taylor Gold Label 814e Super Auditorium Honduran Rosewood
Taylor Gold Label 814e Super Auditorium Honduran Rosewood
Serial Number: 1208275028
Weight: 4.74 lbs.
The Taylor Gold Label 814e in Honduran Rosewood represents Taylor's newest flagship tier, introducing a body shape built specifically for this line: the Super Auditorium, a slightly enlarged evolution of Taylor's famed Grand Auditorium shape that delivers noticeably more low-end power and heritage-inspired warmth while retaining the Grand Auditorium's balance and playability. Genuine Honduran rosewood back and sides — a rare, highly prized tonewood increasingly difficult to source — pair with a torrefied Sitka spruce top for exceptional bass presence, clear ringing trebles, and complex overtones that continue blooming as notes sustain. Inside, a refined generation of Taylor's V-Class bracing extends sustain, boosts volume, and delivers remarkably accurate intonation all the way up the neck, while a new long-tenon neck joint improves resonance and energy transfer from neck to body. The gloss-finished body is dressed in genuinely premium appointments: grained ivoroid binding with koa/ivoroid purfling, a custom single-ring bound rosette, and a fresh mother-of-pearl Continental inlay suite, all at a remarkably light 4.74 lbs. for a guitar of this size.
The tropical mahogany neck carries Taylor's Standard Carve (.840" at the 1st fret, .880" at the 9th) with a long-tenon, Action Control bolt-on joint for precise, serviceable adjustability over the guitar's lifetime, topped with a West African Crelicam ebony fretboard, the matching mother-of-pearl Continental headstock inlay, and a 15" radius across 20 medium frets and the full 25.5" scale length. A 1 3/4" white Tusq nut leads to Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony buttons in an antique chrome finish, while a Honduran rosewood bridge with a white Micarta saddle anchors the strings, rounded out by an ivoroid/tortoise pickguard with engraving.
Plugged in, Taylor's LR Baggs Element VTC preamp delivers natural, uncolored amplified acoustic tone through simple volume and tone controls — refined electronics that get out of the way of the guitar's own voice. Whether you're a professional or serious hobbyist chasing the rarest tonewood combination Taylor currently offers, a collector drawn to a genuinely new flagship body shape, or a player who wants Taylor's most advanced bracing and construction technology in one instrument, the Gold Label 814e represents the top of what Taylor currently builds. This Taylor Gold Label 814e Honduran Rosewood (Serial #1208275028) includes the Gold Label hardshell case in British Cocoa exterior. Order today from Brian's Guitars, your authorized Taylor dealer.
Body
Type: OM/Auditorium
Shape: Super Auditorium
Top Material: Torrefied Spruce
Bracing Pattern: Fanned V-Class
Body Material: Honduran Rosewood
Finish: Gloss
Color: Natural
Body Binding: .080" Grained Ivoroid, Round Over Edges, Koa/Ivoroid Purfling
Rosette: Custom Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
Neck
Material: Tropical Mahogany
Shape: Standard Carve
Dimensions: .840” at the 1st fret, .880" at the 9th fret
Joint: Action Control Bolt-On, Long-tenon
Fretboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin
Headstock: West African Crelicam Ebony Veneer, Mother-of-Pearl Continental Inlay
Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Continental
Radius: 15"
Frets: 20, Medium
Scale Length: 25.5”
Nut Width: 1 3/4"
Nut Material: White Tusq
Hardware
Bridge/Tailpiece: Honduran Rosewood Bridge White Micarta Saddle
Tuners: Gotoh 510 with Ebony EN01 Buttons
Hardware Finish: Antique Chrome
Pickguard: Ivoroid/Tortoise, with Engraving
Electronics
Preamp: LR Baggs Element VTC
Controls: Volume and Tone
Other
Case/Gigbag: Gold Label Hardshell Case British Cocoa