This year`s Taylor Limited Edition comes with three series and a total of sixteen beautiful guitars. Presentation is the most exclusive, Quilted Sapele is intermediate and Blackwood 400 most affordable.
Taylor Guitars have a beautiful tradition, every spring and autumn a brand new Limited Edition is issued. Often these editions contain more than one series of guitars with some exotic wood selection or some other intricate design feature. Besides that, it is a regular thing for Taylor luthiers to pick one of the standard series and give it a custom shop treatment for the seasonal Limiteds issue. Fall 2012 issue brings three elegant and luxurious series, Presentation is the most exclusive one, Quilted Sapele is intermediate and Blackwood 400 is the most affordable. PS14ce-FLTD and PS16ce-FLTD are models from Presentation series. DNce-FLTD, GAce-FLTD, GAce-N-FLTD, 12-Fret GCce-FLTD, GCce-N-FLTD, GSce-FLTD and Baritone-8-FLTD/S belong to the Quilted Sapele line. 410ce-FLTD, 412ce-FLTD, 412ce-N-FLTD, 414ce-FLTD, 414ce-N-FLTD, 416ce-FLTD and Baritone-8-FLTD/B are Blackwood 400 models.
Presentation Series is the most exclusive one in Fall 2012 Limited Edition from Taylor Guitars. With the MSRPs for both models being set at $7,998 expectations can not be anything less than absolute top. And Taylor delivers supreme build, tone and playability with such ease and grace, that it almost seems completely effortless, natural, so to say. These classy and elegant guitars are made of macassar ebony back and sides with sinker redwood sound boards.Contoured armrests are the most prominent features of the top panel. Besides that, Taylor installs ebony binding and beautiful paua rosette. PS-14 is a grand auditorium with single cutaway and acoustic-electric construction and PS-16 is grand symphony model with same design and construction features. Electronics installed on these models are Taylor`s own. Ebony bridges with bone saddles and ebony pins are also installed. Tropical mahogany is used for the necks. Ebony fingerboards come with 20 frets and "Nouveau" inlays. Both models have 25-1/2" scales, 1.75 bone nuts and gold-plated hardware. For more info check PS-14ce-FLTD and PS-16ce-FLTD detail pages on our site or on Taylor Guitars official web page.
Quilted Sapele series is ranked below the Presentation and above Blackwood 400. It comes with seven models, three regular steel-stringers, two nylon-stringed guitars, one twelve-fret steel-stringer and one eight-string baritone with 27" scale. All models are acoustic-electric and have single cutaway design. Also, all of them feature Taylors Expression System electronics. The main trait of this series, however is quilted sapele, a rare and exclusive tone wood, which is found on back and side panels of all seven models. European spruce is used for sound boards. Ivoroid binding and single circle rosettes are installed on all models, thus giving them subtlety and elegance. Gold-plated hardware is used for this series. Dreadnought, grand auditorium and grand concert are made as regular steel-stringers, one grand auditorium and one grand concert have nylon strings, one grand concert has 12th fret dovetail joint and the 8-string baritone is a grand symphony model. Necks are made of mahogany and are topped with ebony fingerboards. All models cost $4,298 and Baritone costs $4,498. For more info check DNce-FLTD, GAce-FLTD, GAce-N-FLTD, 12-Fret GCce-FLTD, GCce-N-FLTD, GSce-FLTD and Baritone-8-FLTD/S detail pages on our site or on Taylor Guitars official web page.
Blackwood 400 series is the most affordable of three lines introduced into Fall 2012 Limited Edition. It is envisioned by Taylor`s luthiers as the seasonal alternative to standard 400 series models. Just as Quilted Sapele, this one has seven guitars, four regular steel-stringers, two nylon stringers and one eight-string baritone with 27" scale. Blackwood is from the same family of trees as Hawaiian koa and these two share the same basic frame of tonal properties, but Tasmanian blackwood is not as scarce and exclusive. It is used for back and side panels and it`s combined with European spruce sound boards. European spruce has the strength of Adirondack spruce, but tonally leans toward cedar a little bit. Bridges are made of ebony and have TUSQ saddles. Taylor Expression system is used for amplification. Mahogany necks are topped with ebony fingerboards. frets on these models have rock maple dot inlays. Rock maple is used for body binding and sound hole rosette, as well. MSRP is uniform for all models, except the baritone. They cost $2,898, while the baritone costs $3.098. For more info check 410ce-FLTD, 412ce-FLTD, 412ce-N-FLTD, 414ce-FLTD, 414ce-N-FLTD, 416ce-FLTD and Baritone-8-FLTD/B detail pages on our site or on Taylor Guitars official web page.
