Description
Description
Showcasing the Gold Label Collection’s unique design details, this guitar features a modified headstock with an angled back cut and script-style Taylor logo inlay, and a cream-colored pickguard with a distinct shape. A firestripe pickguard is also available for this model. Its appointment package includes a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with Indian rosewood bridge pins, cream-colored Crest inlays on the fretboard and peghead, cream body binding, and a cream single-ring rosette. Outfitted with Taylor nickel tuners and LR Baggs Element VTC electronics, the Gold Label 517e ships in a British Cocoa deluxe hardshell case.
Overview
- Modified Grand Pacific body adds remarkable warmth and depth
- Torrefied Sitka spruce top produces rich, sweet projection
- Solid mahogany back and sides for warm, woody tone
- Long-tenon neck joint with exceptional adjustability
- Includes LR Baggs Element VTC pickup and deluxe hardshell case
Specs
Specs
General
| Series: | Taylor 500 Series |
| Country of Manufacture: | Made in the USA |
| Serial Number: | 1210015046 |
| Product Color: | Sunburst |
| Case Type: | Hardshell Case Included |
| Factory Setup: | E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E) |
Body
| Body Shape: | Grand Pacific |
| Acoustic Cutaway Type: | No Cutaway |
| Body Material: | Neo-Tropical Mahogany |
| Body Finish: | Gloss |
| Top Material: | Torrefied Sitka Spruce |
| Bracing Pattern: | Fanned V-Class |
| Body Binding: | Cream Binding |
| Rosette: | Single Ring |
| Purfling: | Black/White Purfling |
| Body Notes: | 5" Body Depth at Soundhole (3/8" deeper than standard Grand Pacific) |
Neck
| Neck Material: | Neo-Tropical Mahogany |
| Neck Finish: | Satin |
| Neck Shape: | Standard Carve |
| Fingerboard Material: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Headstock Veneer: | West African Crelicam Ebony |
| Nut Material: | White TUSQ |
| Nut Width: | 1.75" |
| Fingerboard Radius: | 15" |
| Scale Length: | 25.5" |
| Number of Frets: | 20 Frets |
| Neck Joint: | Taylor Long-Tenon Action Control Neck |
| Fingerboard Inlay: | "Crest" Inlays Motif w/Dot/Diamond Markers |
| Inlay Shape: | Custom Symbol |
| Side Marker Inlay: | Silver Dots |
| Headstock Inlay/Decal: | Script-Style Taylor Logo w/Cream "Crest" |
| Neck Binding: | Crelicam Ebony |
Electronics
| Acoustic Electronics: | L.R. Baggs Element VTC |
| Controls and Switching: | Volume & Tone |
Hardware
| Hardware Color: | Nickel |
| Bridge: | Honduran Rosewood "Curve Wing" |
| Tuning Machines: | Standard Taylor Nickel |
| Saddle: | White Micarta |
| Pickguard: | Firestripe Celluloid |
| Bridge Pins: | Indian Rosewood |