Taylor Custom Shop 2025 Catch Event Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Hot Rod 3.0

Custom Shop 2025 Catch Event Grand Auditorium Acoustic-Electric Hot Rod 3.0 Item Description

A Taylor you can bring to the race track! This is a Custom Shop Grand Auditorium dubbed the Hot Rod 3.0 which was unveiled during the Catch Event at the 2025 NAMM show. Originally conceived as a custom shop order for a long-time Taylor player, the Hot Rod Guitar (HR-LTD) debuted as a NAMM Special Edition model in 2003 with curly maple back and sides and a Sitka spruce top. Featuring red and yellow inlaid wooden flames reaching down the fretboard toward the Florentine cutaway and encircling the soundhole in a ring of fire, the limited-edition guitar came in two versions: a black Jumbo and a Grand Auditorium with red back and sides and a natural top. This updated custom build presents the same inlay scheme and visual aesthetic as the original black model, but with a cutaway Grand Auditorium body and figured Big Leaf maple. Updates include satinwood yellow flame inlays and the bloodwood for the red purfling. Make this spruced up GA yours today!

Includes: Hardshell Case and Paperwork

Product Specs and Features

• Acoustic-Electric Guitar
• Grand Auditorium Body Shape
• Bearclaw Sitka Spruce Top
• Figured Big Leaf Maple Top, Back and Sides
• Hard Rock Maple Neck
• Ebony Fretboard 
• Hot Rod Flames Fretboard Inlays and Rosette of Yellow Satinwood and Red Bloodwood
• Yellow/Red/Black Edge Trim
• Ebony Bridge Pins
• Satin Black Tuners
• V-Class Bracing
• 25.5" Scale Length
• 1-3/4" Nut Width
• 15" Fretboard Radius
• 20 Frets
• Tusq Nut and Saddle
• Taylor ES2 Electronics
• 4 lbs, 4 oz.
• .840" Neck Thickness at 1st Fret
• .890" Neck Thickness at 9th Fret