Taylor Gold Label 517e – Sunburst #35056 (Demonstration Model)

Description

Taylor Gold Label 517e, Ebony Fingerboard, Sunburst

What is a “Demonstration Model”?

This is a nearly new guitar that has been used only to demonstrate its performance by a Taylor sales rep and is offered for sale at a discounted price. The guitar’s specific condition will be described in the listing and any marks will be noted. We complete a full factory setup and hand-inspection before shipping. It should also be mentioned that a “Demonstration Model” comes with Taylor Guitars Warranty.

~Guitar pictured is the actual guitar that you will receive~

Taylor’s warm-voiced Gold Label Collection grows to feature a powerhouse newGrand Pacific with a deeper body and sound.

Andy Powers has reimagined his Grand Pacific shape witha deeper-bodied design for the Gold Label Collection — it’s3/8-inch deeper (5-inch body depth at the soundhole).The extra depth gives the guitar extra “lung capacity”and a deeper resonant frequency. This translates intomore low-end expansiveness, power and projection. The guitar has more sonic push toward an audienceor a microphone, yet with pleasing musical clarity.Even the treble notes have enhanced warmth and depth.

Compared to the Gold Label Super Auditorium, the curves and depth of the Grand Pacific produce even more volume and tonal depth. Its voice is earthy, honest, and uncomplicated like sonic comfort food. A reliable acoustic workhorse both seasoned and soulful.

Fitting into the distinctive design aesthetic of the GoldLabel Collection, the guitars feature Andy’s modifiedheadstock shape with an angled back cut and scriptstyleTaylor logo inlay, a different pickguard shape,and a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge.

The 517e’s clean, understated appointments reflect its down-to-earth, workhorse spirit. Its torrefied spruce top and mahogany back and sides are paired with a cream binding with simple black/white top purfling and a single-ring rosette in cream and black with black/white purfling. “Crest” inlay motif in cream features simple dot/diamond position markers in the fretboard crowned with a new headstock inlay. Finishing out the features are a mahogany neck with a West African Crelicam Ebony fingerboard, cream pickguard, Indian rosewood bridge pins, Taylor Nickel Tuning machines, and LR Baggs Element VTC electronics.

Exclusive to the Gold Label Collection, Taylor’s new neck designcombines the tonal benefits of a long-tenon neck joint witheasy neck angle micro-adjustability, allowing the stringheight (action) to be tweaked with unprecedented easeand precision.

The long tenon extends deeper into the guitar body and, together with the heel structure, enhances the wood coupling to produce greater low-end resonance and a sound comparable to traditional neck designs. Like Taylor’s existing neck, the neck joint is glueless, but instead of incorporating tapered shims to calibrate the neck angle, the design is shimless.

Note: After close inspection, this instrument has a small dimple on the back side of the body, and a small impression next to the bridge. (See pics)

The guitar pictured is the actual guitar that you will receive. It comes with Taylor’s Factory Warranty and our 100% satisfaction guarantee! It will be professionally set up and ready to play before it leaves our store.

We are proud to have been chosen as one of a select few Taylor Guitars Online Preferred Dealers!