Taylor Gold Label 517e Acoustic Electric Guitar – Natural with Firestripe Pickguard

FEATURES

• Deeper Grand Pacific body for incredible warmth and power
• Torrefied Sitka spruce top adds aged-in sweetness and depth
• Solid mahogany back and sides offer bold midrange
• Long-tenon neck joint with exceptional adjustability
• Includes LR Baggs Element VTC pickup

*Includes Taylor hardshell case

DESCRIPTION

With its deep, expansive voice and extraordinary projection, the Gold Label 517e adds a powerful new dimension to the Gold Label Collection.

Designed to produce an older, more traditional acoustic sound, this model blends warm, old-school tone with modern playability. Crafted with solid mahogany back and sides and a natural torrefied Sitka spruce top for a mature, played-in sound from day one, this gloss-finish Grand Pacific model offers a rich midrange character with a clear, woody response. Our round-shoulder dreadnought shape—updated here with a slightly deeper body—delivers incredible low-end power while a slender, satin-finish Taylor neck provides smooth playability. Inside, fanned V-Class bracing boosts volume, lengthens sustain and improves intonation along the entire fretboard. Taylor’s patented long-tenon Action Control Neck™ joint enhances the wood coupling between neck and body to boost low-end resonance while enabling easy and precise adjustments to string height. 

Showcasing the Gold Label Collection’s unique design details, this model features a modified headstock with an angled back cut and script-style Taylor logo inlay and a firestripe pickguard with a distinct shape. The appointment package also includes a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with Indian rosewood bridge pins, cream-colored Crest inlays on the fretboard and peghead, cream body binding, and a cream single-ring rosette.

Outfitted with Taylor nickel tuners and LR Baggs Element VTC electronics, the Gold Label 517e ships in a British Cocoa deluxe hardshell case.

SPECIFICATIONS

• Body Shape: Dreadnought
• Back & Sides Wood: Tropical Mahogany
• Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
• Top Finish: Gloss
• Color: Natural
• Body Bracing: Fanned V-Class
• Binding: Black, White Plastic
• Neck Wood: Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Neck Shape: Standard Carve
• Radius: 15″
• Fingerboard Material: Crelicam Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay: Dots
• Number of Frets: 20
• Scale Length: 25.5″
• Scale Length Type: Standard-scale
• Nut Width: 1.75″
• Nut Material: White Tusq
• Electronics: LR Braggs Element
• Strings: D’Addario XS Phosphor Bronze Light, .012-.053

*Includes Taylor hardshell case

Model# GL517eNAT Gold Label