Part of Taylor’s inaugural class of Grand Pacific guitars, the Builder’s Edition 717e builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound.
The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here.
V-Class brings extra punch and sustain, along with improved intonation and musicality across the entire frequency spectrum. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom.
It’s a voice comfortably rooted in a traditional sound, yet updated to offer more expressive musical range. As a Builder’s Edition model, the 717e also sports an array of premium, player-friendly features: chamfered body edges, rolled fretboard edges, and a new compound-carve neck profile, whose contours match the natural adjustments in the player’s hand position when moving up and down the fretboard.
Even the bridge design was refined to add a more ergonomic feel for the player’s pick hand. Taylor’s noise-reducing Silent Satin finish displays the muted sheen of an older guitar, while elegantly understated appointments include mother-of-pearl Arrowhead fretboard and peghead inlays, with sapele binding. This edition also features our stage-ready ES2 electronics.
Type: | Grand Pacific |
Finish: | Silent Satin |
Top Material: | Sitka Spruce |
Bracing: | V-Class |
Back & Sides Material: | Rosewood |
Neck Wood: | Tropical Mahogany |
Fretboard Material: | Ebony |
Fingerboard Inlays: | Arrowheads, Mother of Pearl |
Scale Length: | 25.5" |
Width at Nut: | 1-3/4" |
Nut Material: | Black Graphite |
Bridge: | Ebony |
Tuners: | Taylor Nickel |
Saddle Material: | Micarta |
Electronics: | Taylor Expression System 2 |
Strings: | Elixir Phosphor Bronze Medium |
Case: | Taylor Deluxe Paisley Hardshell Case |