Taylor Truetone Custom Select 314ce Grand Auditorium Mahogany Natural with Case

Truetone Music is proud to be part of an exclusive group of dealers in the Taylor Custom Select program.  Within it, we have the opportunity to bring a truly unique instrument to life. Having a full range of model options, tonewoods, body shapes, aesthetic details and design features at our disposal, we work to bring the best guitar we can to the table, at the best value.  The goal is to select specifications that match playing styles and musical sensibilities, offering a one-of-a-kind heirloom-quality instrument.

Taylor Truetone Custom Select guitars are all one-off pieces.  Here we have a stellar 314ce Mahogany, unlike any other out there.  After admiring the photos, you can read all about it below.

This Taylor Truetone Custom Select 314ce boasts a body made of Figured Mahogany, paired with a Torrefied Sitka Spruce top.  We specifically chose this combination while working with Taylor on the design of this guitar.  It yields a played-in sound from the first strum that acoustic aficionados will find familiar and pleasing.  Inside, the V-Class bracing adds volume and sustain that complement the top's extra sweetness and depth.  You get a tone that will warm on the coldest of winter nights, with the richness and full-bodied project that Mahogany provides.  The Torrefied Sitka Spruce top levels that out and brings a singing quality to both chords and individually picked notes.  The result is a guitar that brings a trusted flavor to the table.  A wide variety of players can appreciate this wood combination, whether it be for fingerstyle or heavy strumming and everything in between.

The Grand Auditorium Body shape is Taylor’s most well-known and favored design, comfortable and easy to play.  It's big enough to project well but small enough to be comfortable.  The Venetian cutaway makes accessing the upper register quite easy.  This guitar has Taylor's standard carve neck profile, which is slim without being skinny and comfortable to grip for hours.  The neck has a satin finish for smoothness.  A unique feature to this custom build is that we chose Smokey Ebony for the fretboard and peghead overlay - this is something you don't see often, if at all.

The body is accented by Black binding, matching with a simple Black 3-ring rosette.  We chose Taylor's 300 series Gemstone inlays for the fretboard.  Other unique features include Taylor Black Nickel tuners, a Firestripe pickguard and Ebony bridge pins with abalone dots (something we've done on all of our Custom Select guitars).

The guitar comes equipped with an L.R. Baggs Element VTC pickup/preamp.  As much as we love Taylor's own ES2 system, we chose to go another route with this guitar.  Part of the reasoning was to avoid any routing on the body - all of the controls are internal.  Most importantly, we feel that the Element brings a "true" amplification to the guitar - in that it doesn't color the sound at all.  If you're getting a guitar with these tonewoods, you want that tone to be pure when it comes out of the amp.  You can still control it, from the soundhole.  There's a good reason that our shop has installed the Element VTC in many guitars over the years - and it's because it's one of the best systems out there.

This Taylor Custom Select 314ce is a magnificent guitar, only available here - come to Truetone Music to experience it today, or order right here to be shipped safely to your home.

• Grand Auditorium with Venetian Cutaway
• Color: Natural
• Sitka Torrefied Spruce Top
• Figured Mahogany Back & Sides
• Black Body Binding
• Gloss Top / Satin Back & Sides
• Neck Profile: Standard Carve
• Nut Width:  1 3/4" 
• Satin Finish on Neck
• Smokey Ebony Fretboard
• Smokey Ebony Peghead Overlay
• Rosette: Black 3-ring
  
• Fretboard Inlays: Gemstone
• Bridge Pins: Ebony with Abalone dots
• Pickguard: Fire Stripe
• Black Tusq Nut
• White Micarta Saddle
• Tuners: Taylor Smoked Nickel
• L.R. Baggs Element VTC
• Taylor Hardshell Case