Description
Description
Bob’s easy-playing 12-strings helped put Taylor on the map, and the Legacy 855e honors one of his seminal models, featuring the classic Jumbo body shape in rosewood and spruce. This 12-string model offers a playing experience unlike anything else currently available in the Taylor line, blending the warmth, clarity and balance of the rosewood/spruce tonewood pairing with blooming overtones and waves of gorgeous octave sparkle. Players will appreciate the comfortable neck profile and string setup, which continues to distinguish our 12-strings as the gold standard of playability. This non-cutaway acoustic-electric is voiced with the X-bracing pattern that Bob used for many years.
Vintage design touches include our mustache-style bridge and straight-ear peghead shape, along with white binding, a three-ring rosette in green abalone, non-engraved Large Diamond fretboard inlays in mother-of-pearl, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, a faux-tortoiseshell pickguard, nickel tuning machines, and a gloss-finish body and neck.
Features
- Solid Indian rosewood back and sides with Sitka spruce top
- Jumbo 12-string with exceptional octave shimmer
- Classic mustache bridge and straight-ear peghead
- LR Baggs Element VTC undersaddle pickup with soundhole-mounted controls
Specs
Specs
General
| Series: | Taylor 800 Series |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in the USA |
| Serial Number: | 1208084067 |
| Product Color: | Natural |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Jumbo |
| Acoustic Cutaway Type: | No Cutaway |
| Body Material: | Indian Rosewood |
| Body Finish: | Gloss |
| Top Material: | Sitka Spruce |
| Bracing Pattern: | X-Bracing |
| Body Binding: | White |
| Rosette: | 3-Ring |
| Purfling: | Black/White |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Neo-Tropical Mahogany |
| Neck Finish: | Gloss |
| Neck Tint/Color: | Natural |
| Neck Shape: | Standard Carve |
| Fingerboard Material: | Crelicam Ebony |
| Headstock Veneer: | Indian Rosewood |
| Nut Material: | White TUSQ |
| Nut Width: | 1.875" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 15" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" |
| Number of Frets: | 20 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Taylor Scarf Neck |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Large Non-Engraved Diamonds, Shell/Mother of Pearl |
| Inlay Shape: | Diamonds |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Black Dots |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | White Binding, Taylor Shell/Mother of Pearl |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Nickel |
| Bridge: | Moustache |
| Tuning Machines: | Taylor Mini Nickel |
| Saddle: | White Micarta |
| Pickguard: | Celluloid Faux Tortoise |
| Bridge Pins: | Crelicam Ebony w/Green Abalone Dots |