Taylor NAMM 2025 Custom #18 C14ce Lutz Spruce/Figured Big Leaf Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric Guitar – Desert Dawn – #1203315097

Elegance Meets Sonic Brilliance – The Taylor NAMM 2025 Custom #18 C14ce Lutz Spruce/Figured Big Leaf Grand Auditorium Acoustic Electric Guitar in Desert Dawn

Blending a bold visual aesthetic, a graceful inlay motif and premium tonewoods, this custom guitar is exceptional in both sound and style. A hand-applied Desert Dawn color treatment lends the guitar a vibrant appearance, emphasizing the beautiful figuring of the Big Leaf maple back and sides and the tight grain of the Lutz spruce top. Paired together in a gloss-finished cutaway Grand Auditorium body, players can expect an articulate voice that’s highly reflective of individual playing styles, with our V-Class bracing inside providing a boost to volume and sustain while improving pitch accuracy all the way up the neck. An ivoroid pickguard is accentuated by an ivoroid/faux-tortoiseshell rosette, ivoroid binding and purfling, and bone bridge pins, while Engraved Victorian inlays add touches of subtle elegance. Outfitted with ES2 electronics and ultra-precise Gotoh 510 antique chrome tuning machines, this beautiful custom model ships in a brown deluxe hardshell case.

SPECIFICATIONS

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
• Bracing System: V-Class Bracing
• Cutaway: Venetian
• Color: Desert Dawn (Entire Guitar)
• Top Wood: Lutz Spruce
• Back / Side Wood: Big Leaf Maple
• Rosette: Grained Ivoroid / Faux Tortoise Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
• Back Configuration: 2-Piece, No Wedge
• Body Binding: Grained Ivoroid
• Armrest: None
• Top Finish: Gloss
• Back / Side Finish: Gloss

Neck

• Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple
• Nut Width: 1-3/4″
• Neck Profile: Standard Carve
• Scale Length: 25-1/2″
• Backstrap: None
• Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Fretboard Inlay: Faux Pearl Engraved Victorian
• Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Finish: Gloss

Hardware

• Peghead Type: Paddle
• Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Inlay: Faux Pearl Engraved Victorian
• Peghead Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Finish: Gloss
• Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle: Black TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins: Bone
• Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Chrome with Antique Chrome Buttons
• Strap Pin: Nickel
• End Pin: Black

Electronics

• Electronics: Expression System 2

Miscellaneous

• Number of Strings: 6 String
• Orientation: Right Handed
• Case / Bag: Brown Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case
• Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 – .053)
• Pick Guard: Grained Ivoroid

Manufacturer: Taylor Guitars
Model: C14CE B5018
SKU: I818667-N-1203315097-1-WHXD

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