Description
Description
The Taylor 517 Builder's Edition Grand Pacific torrefied Sitka/tropical mahogany models feature a naturally compressed, meatier sound around the center of the EQ, the torrefied spruce top adds a bit of sweetness, resulting in a richly textured sound with lush overtones. Boasting a modern feel and articulate response, the warm, seasoned voice of this traditional slope-shoulder dreadnought pumps out clear low-end power.
500 Series Builder’s Edition
Taylor’s 500 series Builders Edition neo-tropical mahogany/torrefied Sitka spruce models boast a seasoned tone that can otherwise only be achieved after years of play. While the neo-tropical mahogany provides a naturally compressed, meatier sound around the center of the EQ, the torrefied spruce top adds a bit of sweetness, resulting in a richly textured sound with lush overtones, reminiscent of vintage acoustic recordings.
Grand Pacific
The Grand Pacific is Taylor’s round-shoulder dreadnought, designed to deliver a different flavor of Taylor tone: a warm, seasoned voice in which notes overlap in a way that recalls traditional acoustic guitar recordings, requiring no studio enhancements. With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, the Grand Pacific pumps out clear low-end power, making the Grand Pacific’s voice more musical and usable, while remaining as versatile as a Grand Auditorium and as assertive as a traditional dreadnought.
V-Class Bracing
The Taylor Grand Auditorium features Taylor’s innovative new V-Class bracing, which lets the soundboard of the guitar vibrate naturally, increasing sustain and overall cohesiveness, and generating additional volume without sacrificing sustain. This design puts the body more in tune with the strings, improving articulation and harmonic alignment, resulting in a sound that is optimally warm and seasoned, nicely blended, and full of luscious low end without being muddy.
500 Series Builder’s Edition
Taylor’s 500 series Builders Edition neo-tropical mahogany/torrefied Sitka spruce models boast a seasoned tone that can otherwise only be achieved after years of play. While the neo-tropical mahogany provides a naturally compressed, meatier sound around the center of the EQ, the torrefied spruce top adds a bit of sweetness, resulting in a richly textured sound with lush overtones, reminiscent of vintage acoustic recordings.
Grand Pacific
The Grand Pacific is Taylor’s round-shoulder dreadnought, designed to deliver a different flavor of Taylor tone: a warm, seasoned voice in which notes overlap in a way that recalls traditional acoustic guitar recordings, requiring no studio enhancements. With Taylor’s V-Class bracing, the Grand Pacific pumps out clear low-end power, making the Grand Pacific’s voice more musical and usable, while remaining as versatile as a Grand Auditorium and as assertive as a traditional dreadnought.
V-Class Bracing
The Taylor Grand Auditorium features Taylor’s innovative new V-Class bracing, which lets the soundboard of the guitar vibrate naturally, increasing sustain and overall cohesiveness, and generating additional volume without sacrificing sustain. This design puts the body more in tune with the strings, improving articulation and harmonic alignment, resulting in a sound that is optimally warm and seasoned, nicely blended, and full of luscious low end without being muddy.
Specs
Specs
General
| Series: | Taylor 500 Series |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in the USA |
| Product Color: | Wild Honey Burst |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Grand Pacific |
| Body Material: | Neo-Tropical Mahogany |
| Body Finish: | Silent Satin |
| Top Material: | Torrefied Sitka Spruce |
| Bracing Material: | Spruce |
| Bracing Pattern: | V-Class |
| Body Binding: | Sapele |
| Rosette: | Sapele Single Ring |
| Purfling: | Black/Maple |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Neo-Tropical Mahogany |
| Neck Finish: | Satin |
| Neck Tint/Color: | Blackwood Stain |
| Neck Shape: | Compound Carve |
| Fingerboard Material: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Headstock Veneer: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Nut Material: | TUSQ |
| Nut Width: | 1.75" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 15" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" |
| Number of Frets: | 20 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Taylor Neck, Bolt-On |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | Grained Ivoroid Arrowheads |
| Inlay Shape: | Custom Symbol |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Silver |
| Neck Binding: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Black |
| Bridge: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Tuning Machines: | Taylor Nickel with Nickel Buttons |
| Saddle: | Micarta |
| Truss Rod Cover: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Bridge Pins: | West African Crelicam Ebony |