Taylor 814ce Acoustic-Electric Guitar – Natural with V-Class Bracing and Radiused Armrest

Description

Hi there! This is the House of Guitars speaking. Thank you for checking out our Reverb page. We just want to give you a few points as to why you should go with the H.O.G.!

• We are a family business that’s been running strong since 1964 and work with pride and passion
• Every listing (UNLESS STATED OTHERWISE) goes through a photoshoot to highlight the uniqueness of every instrument
• All guitars go through an inspection and set-up with our professional in-store luthiers to make sure they are in top shape before shipment
• Every package we ship comes extra packed to ensure the absolute safest travel from our store to your hands
• All shipments go out ASAP. Our first priority upon seeing a purchase is getting it out, so expect to see your tracking number the next business day if purchased after 4pm or even the day of if purchased in the morning. Shipments do not get picked up on weekends so if purchased over weekend expect to see it going out Monday
• All of our workers here have a love for music and either are professional, seasoned musicians, or have a degree within the music field, so please give us a call or shoot us a message!

Check out our social media pages to stay in the loop as well to see our old commercials, rock-star visits, and cool new arrivals!

So come on down to our house, the House of Guitars, because we will sell you EVERYTHIIIING!!!

Pieces of information to note:

• Reverb’s “Product Specs” can tend to be wrong, please refer to our description as we try to provide as much information as possible, Reverb autofills product information past our description which can cause much confusion
• When it comes to shipping we always ship with “Adult Signature Required” to avoid theft at all cost
• We only ship within the continental USA

6-String Acoustic-electric Guitar with Spruce Top, Rosewood Back and Sides, Mahogany Neck, and Ebony Fingerboard – Natural

Taylor’s Sumptuous 814ce

Combining elegant aesthetics with sophisticated playability and tone-enhancing details, the 800 Series is Taylor’s incredibly popular class of premium rosewood guitars. The 814ce acoustic-electric plays very comfortably, thanks to its Grand Auditorium body, graceful Venetian cutaway, and ergonomically radiused rosewood armrest. Featuring beautiful premium solid tonewoods — a Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, a tropical mahogany neck, and a West African ebony fingerboard — the 814ce is the perfect studio and stage workhorse: brilliant in solo and sparse musical settings, and holding its own when tracked in thick arrangements. You’ll love the clear, balanced tone — a sound forged by Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing and amplified flawlessly by the onboard Expression System 2 electronics. As your eyes drink in this instrument’s understated elegance, your hands savor its flawless playability, and your ears revel in its rich, organic tone, you’ll treasure your Taylor 814ce. It’s a feast for the senses.

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.

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; not only producing notes that are louder and with longer sustain — but more in tune with each other. V-Class bracing 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.

Grand Auditorium body style delivers exceptional presence

Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the 814ce, employs the width and depth of a dreadnought, so it delivers prodigious volume that makes it a “tone cannon” in its own right. However, its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium bodied acoustic guitars more treble zing, along with improved playing comfort and a sleeker look. The 814ce’s Grand Auditorium body style also helps to sharpen the definition of each note you play, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection of its V-Class-braced 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, 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. Slighted 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, you’re going to love the Taylor Expression System 2 (ES-2) electronics built into your 814ce. 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 guitar’s saddle, the ES-2 pickup provides you with remarkably clear and accurate sound. In addition to a master volume control, a pair of tone controls let you tweak your highs and lows to get the sound you need, and a discreet polarity switch offers vital onboard feedback suppression.

Taylor 814ce Acoustic-electric Guitar Features:

• Beautiful, solid premium tonewoods
• Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides; gloss finish
• V-Class bracing with Relief Rout
• Venetian cutaway; maple binding; abalone rosette
• Tropical mahogany neck; satin finish
• West African ebony fingerboard, maple binding, MOP Element inlay
• Headstock: West African ebony overlay, maple binding, MOP Element inlay
• Ebony truss rod cover; black graphite nut
• West African ebony bridge, pins; Micarta saddle
• Taylor smoked nickel tuning machines
• Taylor ES-2 electronics
• Handcrafted by Taylor luthiers in California, USA
• Hardshell case included

Tech Specs

• String Type:Steel
• Number of Strings:6
• Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
• Body Shape:Grand Auditorium
• Back & Sides Wood:Indian Rosewood
• Top Wood:Sitka Spruce
• Finish:Gloss
• Color:Natural
• Body Bracing:V-Class
• Binding:Non-figured Maple
• Neck Wood:Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Shape:Standard
• Radius:15″
• Fingerboard Material:West African Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay:Mother-of-Pearl Element
• Number of Frets:20
• Scale Length:25.5″
• Nut Width:1.75″
• Nut/Saddle Material:Black Graphite/Micarta
• Bridge Material:West African Ebony
• Tuning Machines:Taylor Smoked Nickel
• Electronics:ES-2