The Taylor 514ce is a Grand Auditorium-type electroacoustic guitar, an original Taylor design introduced to the public in 1994 that combines the qualities of Dreadnought and Grand Orchestra guitars. The guitar's all-solid body is made of Sitka spruce and the back and sides are made of a wood designated Red Ironbark Eucalyptus. Red Ironbark is a premium Australian hardwood that, according to early reviews, sits sonically somewhere between rosewood and ebony.
Glued to the mahogany neck is an ebony fingerboard fitted with twenty frets and decorative position markers. The lower body cutaway (venetian cutaway) makes it easier to play even at higher fingerboard positions. Acoustic properties are enhanced by V-Class ribbing, which improves the guitar's performance in three aspects - increasing the instrument's volume, extending sustain and improving intonation.
The strings are mounted across the saddle and zero fret in the company's tuning machines and ebony fingerboard. The beautiful workmanship is accentuated by traditional elements in the form of a fretboard and pickguard made of imitation tortoiseshell, a rosette composed of rings made of imitation tortoiseshell and imitation ivory, and a decorative inlay on the headstock.
The guitar is fitted with high quality company electronics. The Taylor Expression System 2 uses three specially designed independent piezo pickups located behind the fingerboard. Unlike conventional pickups, they do not sense the up and down movement of the board, but the natural back and forth vibration of the fingerboard. This makes the sound much more natural, colourful and pleasing, and more responsive to the dynamics of your playing. At the same time, the new preamp makes the signal 25% stronger. Of course, feedback is eliminated and you can adjust the volume, bass and treble.
The instrument comes in a deluxe carrying case.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Natural
- Colour: Natural
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: Grand Auditorium
- Cutaway: Yes
- Body Construction: All Solid
- Top/Face: Spruce, Solid
- Back Plate: Ironbark, Solid
- Sides/Ribs: Ironbark, Solid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 648 mm
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 44.5 mm
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Nut: Graphite
- Pickup: Yes
- Pickup Type: Piezo
- Model electronics: Taylor Expression System 2
- Controls: Volume, Bass, Treble
- Integrated Tuner: No
- Tuning Machines: Taylor
- Hardware: Nickel
- Hard Case: Yes
- Case: No
- Strings: Phosphor Bronze Light
- Country of Production: USA