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An exciting addition to Taylor's Builder’s Edition line, the 914ce Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric guitar achieves stellar acoustic tone, sustain and playability. This Taylor 914ce combines back and sides of Honduran rosewood with a top of beautifully striped sinker redwood, creating a guitar with unparalleled harmonic complexity, piano-like trebles and robust lows. The innovative V-Class bracing optimizes the guitar's response, improving volume, sustain and intonation. Playability gets an upgrade as well, with a comfortably sculpted armrest, contoured body edges, curved bridge and a host of other enticing appointments.

Taylor Builders Edition 914ce Acoustic-Electric Guitar Tonewoods

Thoughtfully Curated Tonewoods

The Taylor Builder’s Edition 914ce pairs back and sides of Honduran rosewood with a sinker redwood top, a stunning combination usually reserved for the company's Presentation Series. The Honduran rosewood is denser than Indian rosewood, producing complex harmonics with refined response across the frequencies—warm lows, clear trebles and piano-like clarity. The top features sinker redwood from old-growth logs recovered from Northern California rivers, yielding a woodgrain with dramatic striping. It provides the pleasing warmth and touch sensitivity of cedar, along with enhanced projection and dynamics. Together these rare and resonant tonewoods create a voice with exceptional nuance and presence.

Taylor Builders Edition 914ce Acoustic-Electric Guitar Body

Grand Auditorium Body With V-Class Bracing

This 914ce Grand Auditorium features Taylor's innovative V-Class bracing, which optimizes the 914ce's performance in three key areas: volume, sustain and intonation. By boosting volume and sustain, it enhances the guitar's tonal response and playability. But perhaps most impressively, it improves intonation accuracy across the fingerboard, meaning chords ring out with purer pitches. Contours to the armrest, cutaway and edges maximize comfort. High-end appointments include Hawaiian koa wood purfling with abalone edge trim and a koa/abalone rosette. The hand-sprayed Kona burst, gloss body and satin neck offer understated elegance.

Taylor Builders Edition 914ce Acoustic-Electric Guitar Neck

Tonally and Aesthetically Gorgeous Neck

The mahogany neck on the Builder’s Edition 914ce boasts easy playability and added sonic character. With its genuine West African ebony fingerboard, you can feel the exquisite resonance across its 20 frets. Antique gold Gotoh 510 tuning machines and a black graphite nut ensure rock-solid tuning stability.

Taylor Builders Edition 914ce Acoustic-Electric Guitar Electronics

Amplify Your Tone

The Taylor ES2 pickup system faithfully amplifies the 914ce's nuanced acoustic voice. With sensors positioned behind the saddle, the strings fully contact the bridge for optimized resonance. This enables a wide dynamic range and the most natural amplified tone. Easy-to-use controls let you shape bass, midrange and treble response. On stage or in studio, plug in to hear the 914ce's lush harmonics, clear fundamentals and singing overtones through an amplifier or PA. It's an acoustic-electric experience that will elevate your performances.

For players pursuing a beautiful acoustic-electric with stunning tone, the Taylor Builder’s Edition 914ce is a masterpiece of design. With rare tonewoods, innovative bracing, refined playability and a next-level pickup system, it's a stunning instrument ready to inspire your music making. Step into your local Guitar Center to try out this special Builder’s Edition yourself.

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Body
Cutaway: Venetian
Body type: Grand Auditorium
Top wood: Striped sinker redwood
Back & sides: Honduran rosewood
Bracing pattern: V-Class
Body finish: Gloss
Orientation: Right-handed
Neck

  • Nut width: 1 3/4"
  • Neck Shape: Standard
  • Neck Wood: Neo-tropical mahogany
  • Fingerboard: Genuine West African ebony
  • Scale length: 25-1/2"
  • Number of frets: 20
  • Neck finish: Satin
Electronics
Pickup/preamp: Expression System 2
Brand: Taylor
Configuration: Behind-the-saddle transducer with adjustable sensors
Preamp EQ: Volume, active bass and treble
Notch filter/phase: Yes
Tuner: None
Other

  • Headstock overlay: Genuine West African ebony
  • Tuning machines: Gotoh 510 antique gold
  • Rosette:
  • Bridge: Genuine West African ebony, curve wing
  • Saddle & nut: Micarta "Wave" saddle; Black graphite nut
  • Number of strings: 6
  • Special features: Beveled Mahogany Armrest and cutaway, chamfered body edges; Hawaiian koa purfling with paua edge trim for the top and back; single-ring paua rosette with ebony/koa/black purfling and an ebony-bound soundhole; an ebony backstrap
  • Case: Deluxe hardshell
    Country of origin: USA

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5

2 Reviews

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend

A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
A DREAM GUITAR
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  1. Jamming2
  2. Practicing2
  3. Recording2
  4. Small Venues2
  5. Fingerstyle1
Cons
  1. Antique Gold "aged" tuner finish.1
Describe Yourself
  1. Experienced2
Pros
  1. Consistent2
  2. Fun To Play2
  3. Good Audio2
  4. Good Feel2
  5. Stays In Tune2

Reviewed by 2 customers

  • Fantastic!!!

    5

    submitteda year ago

    byDavid

    fromDFW area

    Taylor quality has always been great in their high-end guitars, but this 2024 914ce Sinker/Hondoran is another level in quality of materials, fit, and finish. Inlay work is breathtaking. The frets are a little thicker than my 2003 and 2011 Taylors, and that's OK. I really like the look and feel of the gloss body finish and it's beautiful.. Endless sustain and shimmering tone from this wood combo. Single notes DO sound like a piano. I'm a relatively light strummer and have not even come close to overdriving the top, all the YouTube reviews for this guitar are spot on. I thought the strap button on the back would be weird, but it works out just fine for me. I've only had it for a few days, but it sounds better to me every time I pull it out of the case. The only thing I would change would be the "Antique" finish on the Gotoh 510 tuners. If the guitar was aged, tarnished looking tuners might look better, but the rest of it is shiny and new. I would have picked regular gold with Ebony buttons. Gotoh 21:1 themselves are the best tuners I've ever used, regardless of the finish. Guitar Center took a bunch of my used gear in partial trade, gave me fair trade value, and were super easy to work with. A shout out to Mike Rich, the store manager at GC Lewisville, TX who actually drove to another GC store to take pictures of this guitar for me which I ended up buying.

  • A DREAM GUITAR

    5

    submitteda year ago

    bySteve

    fromLake Zurich, IL

    First of all, I am the Senior Pastor of a church. Before becoming a Senior Pastor I led worship for 20+ years. I have owned the best of the best acoustic guitars including a McPherson Stripped Ebony Macassar Acoustic with a Redwood Top and a Gibson 60's Hummingbird. Three weeks ago I received a Builders Edition Taylor 814ce with the Redwood Top; that guitar was amazing in every regard and almost as good as my McPherson. Right after I purchased this guitar I heard about the BE 914ce with the Redwood Top and Honduran spruce back and sides. After much research and zero reviews to go by, I made the decision to swap the 814 for the 914. I received the 914 today! When I opened the case I was blown away by the beauty of this guitar; when I began to play it I couldn't put it down for over two hours! This guitar matched and even exceeded my beloved McPherson. The sound is absolutely magical both plugged and unplugged! It actually sounds like a piano with incredible sustain and chime! It sounds full, smooth, fat, articulate, rich, and not trebly and thin like many of the Taylor's do.

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