Taylor NAMM 2025 Custom #34 Hot Rod 3.0 C14ce Big Leaf Maple/Sitka Spruce Acoustic Electric Guitar – Black – #1202285098

Ignite Your Sound – The Taylor NAMM 2025 Custom #34 Hot Rod 3.0 C14ce Big Leaf Maple/Sitka Spruce Acoustic Electric Guitar in Black

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. Modern performance-focused enhancements include innovative V-Class interior voicing architecture, ES2 electronics and satin black tuners. It ships in a brown deluxe hardshell case.

SPECIFICATIONS

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
• Bracing System: V-Class Bracing
• Cutaway: Florentine
• Color: Black
• Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
• Back / Side Wood: Big Leaf Maple
• Rosette: Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
• Back Configuration: 2-Piece, No Wedge
• Body Binding: Black
• 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″
• Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Fretboard Inlay: Yellow Flames with Red Purfling Hot Rod Flames
• Fretboard Binding: Black
• Neck Finish: Gloss

Hardware

• Peghead Type: Paddle
• Peghead Finish: Gloss
• Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle: Black TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Tuners: Taylor Satin Black with Satin Black Buttons
• Strap Pin: Black
• 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)

Manufacturer: Taylor Guitars
Model: HOT ROD 3.0
SKU: I818671-N-1202285098-1-WHXD

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