Taylor Gold Label 817e SB Honduran Rosewood (New)

With a beautiful sunburst top that echoes its old-school acoustic personality, the Gold Label 817e SB offers a bold visual twist on the classic slope-shoulder dreadnought experience. This deeper-bodied Grand Pacific model pairs Honduran rosewood back and sides with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, serving up a richly textured voice with clear trebles, rumbling lows and remarkable warmth across the frequency spectrum. The added body depth unlocks greater low-end expansiveness and projection. Fanned V-Class™ bracing—applied with hot hide glue—enhances volume, sustain and pitch consistency along the entire fretboard. A long-tenon Action Control Neck™ increases resonance and allows for on-the-fly string height adjustments through the soundhole. This model sports the Gold Label Collection’s modified headstock shape with an angled-back design and script-style Taylor logo. A stylized, dual-layer pickguard—with faux-tortoise over ivoroid—features an engraved motif that complements the mother-of-pearl Continental fretboard and peghead inlays. Additional appointments include a single-ring paua rosette, grained ivoroid body binding with ivoroid and Honduran rosewood edge trim, antique chrome Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony buttons, and a full-body gloss finish. The Gold Label 817e SB comes equipped with LR Baggs Element VTC electronics and ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case with a British Cocoa exterior.

Serial #1211055061

BODY

• Top Wood - Torrefied Spruce
• Back/Side Wood - Honduran Rosewood
• Rosette - Custom Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
• Back Configuration - 4-Piece, Simons Wedge
• Body Binding - Rock Maple
• Armrest - .080" Grained Ivoroid, Round Over Edges
• Top Finish - Gloss
• Back/Side Finish - Gloss

NECK

• Neck Wood - Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Fretboard Wood - West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Profile - Standard Carve
• Fretboard Inlay - Mother-of-Pearl Continental
• Fretboard Binding - West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Finish - Satin

PEGHEAD

• Nut Width - 1-3/4"
• Peghead Veneer Wood - West African Crelicam Ebony
• Scale Length - 25-1/2"
• Peghead Inlay - Mother-of-Pearl Continental
• Peghead Type - Paddle
• Peghead Finish - Gloss

OTHER

• Bridge - Honduran Rosewood
• Nut & Saddle - White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins - Bone
• Strings - D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• Pickguard - Ivoroid/Tortoise, with Engraving
• Tuners - Gotoh 510 Antique Chrome with Ebony EN01 Buttons
• Strap Pin - Black