Taylor 814CE Deluxe, mini armrest, adirondack bracing

left in stock in

View all locations

Low in store inventory, may be subject to change

Conditional


Quantity:	Out of Stock

Add to Cart

Taylor 814ce DLX Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:
FREE Life Time Maintenance included

Sitka spruce top; Indian rosewood back and sides
Bracing: V-Class with relief rout
Venetian cutaway
Radius-style rosewood armrest
Maple body binding; abalone rosette, rosewood pickguard
Tropical mahogany neck with satin finish
West African ebony fingerboard with ebony binding and mother-of-pearl Element inlay
Headstock: West African ebony overlay with ebony binding, mother-of-pearl Element inlay
Maple fingerboard and peghead purfling
West African ebony truss rod cover
Black graphite nut, Micarta saddle
Scale length: 25.5"
West African ebony bridge pins with abalone dots
Gotoh 510 tuning machines with
- 21:1 gear ratio

For questions or help ordering, call: (513) 843-5739

Taylor's Superb 814ce DLX with V-Class Bracing

Combining elegant aesthetics with tone-enhancing details, the 800 Series is Taylor's incredibly popular class of rosewood guitars. The 814ce DLX acoustic-electric Grand Auditorium features revolutionary V-Class bracing, which boosts volume evenly across the tonal spectrum, increases sustain, and improves the natural intonation of the instrument by creating a more synergistic response from the soundboard. This fosters a more harmonious relationship between the notes you play, helping chords to ring out in cohesive splendor. If you're a guitarist who appreciates the robust lows and crisp highs of rosewood topped with Sitka spruce, you'll relish how well mannered the overtones are as your notes bloom. While you delight in its beautiful tone, your eyes will savor the 814ce DLX's tasteful appointments and deluxe upgrades that include a comfortable radius-style rosewood armrest, rosewood top trim, maple binding and fingerboard/peghead purfling, precision 21:1 Gotoh 510 tuners, and a silky-smooth smoky ebony fingerboard with mother-of-pearl Element inlays.

V-Class bracing: a sonic revelation

Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that helps shape its sound. Although X-bracing has been standard in acoustic guitars for over a century, it creates an innate conflict between two key elements of a guitar's sound: volume and sustain. The guitar's top (its soundboard) contributes to both. The flexibility of the top generates volume (projection), while its stiffness generates sustain. And with X-braced guitar tops, here's where the trade-off comes in: when something is made stiffer, its flexibility is reduced (and vice versa). V-Class bracing changes all that.

V-Class bracing changes all that. With Taylor's V-Class bracing, an acoustic guitar top can be both stiff and flexible — for more volume and sustain. V-Class bracing provides stiffness parallel to the strings for more rigidity and, hence, sustain. Flexibility on either side generates the air movement necessary for robust projection. It's the best of both worlds. This groundbreaking innovation also improves intonation, producing notes that are not only louder and with longer sustain.

Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence

Taylor's beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 814ce DLX, employs the width and depth of the dreadnought. But its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium–bodied acoustic guitars a sleeker look, with more treble zing. The 814ce DLX's Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its Sitka spruce top.

A classic tonewood combination

Nothing beats the sound of rosewood topped with spruce. As a top tonewood, Sitka spruce offers a combination of strength and elasticity that delivers a broad dynamic range with crisp articulation that's ideal for a wide range of playing styles, from delicate fingerpicking to aggressive flatpicked strumming. Used for the back and sides of the 814ce DLX, Indian rosewood’s extended frequency range and rich, musical tonality have elevated it to premium status among tonewoods. Its potent low end can serve up a throaty growl, while sparkling treble notes ring out with bell-like clarity. Slightly scooped in the midrange (as compared with mahogany), rosewood acoustic guitars are perfect for solo performance, vocal accompaniment, and tracking in sparser arrangements.

Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics

If you play plugged in, then you're going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics built into your 814ce DLX. The key to this fantastic system is the 3-section proprietary pickup located behind the saddle. Because of where it's positioned and how it's integrated into the 814ce DLX's saddle, the ES2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls lets you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet phase switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.

Tech Specs

Series:800
String Type:Steel
Number of Strings:6
Body Shape:Grand Auditorium
Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
Color:Natural
Finish:Gloss
Top Wood:Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides Wood:Indian Rosewood
Body Bracing:V-class
Binding:Pale Non-figured Maple
Neck Wood:Tropical Mahogany
Fingerboard Material:West African Ebony
Fingerboard Inlay:Mother-of-pearl Element
Number of Frets:20
Scale Length:25.5"
Tuning Machines:Gotoh
Bridge Material:West African Ebony
Nut/Saddle Material:Black Graphite/Micarta
Nut Width:1.75"
Electronics:ES2
Strings:Elixir Phosphor Bronze Light, .012-.053
Case Included:Hardshell Case
Body Length:20"
Body Width:16"
Body Depth:4.62"
Manufacturer Part Number:A802002111000077000-2611

| | | | | | | | | | |