This long-awaited Taylor Custom Shop Gold Label Grand Pacific has arrived and does not disappoint. This guitar is a part of our first run of customized Gold Label models made of handpicked woods and materials during a trip to the Taylor factory in El Cajon, California. Walking around the wood selection room with Andy Powers himself, we came across this stunning set of Honduran rosewood that matched enough to get a back and sides from, it was a no brainer to pick this set. We paired it with a bearclaw spruce top that has some lovely figuring more towards the bottom half of the body. It adds some nice visuals to the top without being too overbearing and outshining the Honduran rosewood, which is near impossible. Keeping with the natural wood theme - we have a single-ring rosewood rosette and bound soundhole with matching rosewood body binding. Tonally, the guitar has a very nice midrange to it. Harmonics really pop and have beautiful overtones to them on this piece.
Being a Gold Label Collection guitar, this Super Auditorium has fanned V-Class bracing pattern that has a fan-like arrangement of braces in the lower bout - all set in place with traditional hot hide glue. The guitars feature a new long tenon neck joint to result in greater low-end resonance and a similarity in feel/tone to historic acoustics that feature dovetail neck joints. What's unique about Taylors use of the long-tenon is that it remains glueless and brings even easier micro-adjustment ability to the neck.
Visually, each Gold Label Collection guitar has aesthetics based off of vintage banjos and mandolins, early Taylor designs from the 1970s and Andy's own pre-Taylor work on archtop guitars. There's a new headstock shape with an angled back cut and reinterpretation of the Taylor logo. The bridge is a curve wing design carved of Honduran rosewood rather than ebony and they are paired with bone bridge pins. Each Gold Label Collection guitar will also be loaded with L.R. Baggs Element electronics.
Includes: Hardshell Case and Paperwork
