Taylor Builder's Edition 717e WHB
Taylor





Regular price $3,299.00
A Wild Honey Burst top and low-sheen finish heighten the old-soul aesthetic appeal of this Builder’s Edition Grand Pacific, which builds on a long tradition of rosewood/spruce dreadnoughts but breaks new ground with an entirely new Taylor sound. The round-shoulder dreadnought shape, featuring Taylor’s award-winning V-Class bracing, produces warm, seasoned acoustic tone in which individual notes overlap and blend smoothly together, while the low-end power common among dreadnoughts boasts greater clarity here. V-Class brings extra punch and sustain, along with improved intonation and musicality across the entire frequency spectrum. Together with rosewood’s harmonic complexity and the played-in sound of the torrefied spruce top, players can expect rich, luxurious tonal character from top to bottom. It’s a voice comfortably rooted in a traditional sound, yet updated to offer more expressive musical range. As a Builder’s Edition model, the 717 also sports an array of premium, player-friendly features: chamfered body edges, rolled fretboard edges, and a new compound-carve neck profile, whose contours match the natural adjustments in the player’s hand position when moving up and down the fretboard. Even the bridge design was refined to add a more ergonomic feel for the player’s pick hand. Elegantly understated appointments include mother-of-pearl Arrowhead fretboard and peghead inlays, with sapele binding. It all adds up to a Taylor like you’ve never seen, heard or felt before.
Specs:
- Serial Number: 120261152
- Shape: Grand Pacific
- Top Wood: Solid Sitka Spruce
- Body Wood: Solid Indian Rosewood
- Electronics: Expression System 2
- No Cutaway
- Bracing: V-Class
- Scale Length: 25-1/2"
- Nut & Saddle: Black Graphite, Micarta saddle
- Truss Rod Cover: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Pickguard: None
- Number of Frets: 20
- Tuners: Taylor Nickel
- Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral
- Brand of Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze Medium
- Binding/Edge Treatment: Sapele
- Top Finish; Silent Satin
- Rosette Size: Single Ring
- Back/Side Finish: Silent Satin
- Rosette Mat.: Black Sapele/Maple
- Stain/Sunburst: Wild Honey Burst Top
- Neck Width: 1-3/4"
- Fretboard Inlay: Arrowheads, Mother of Pearl
- Fretboard Binding/Edge Treatment: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Heel Cap Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Type of Neck Joint; Scarf
- Neck/Heel: Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Neck Finish; Satin
- Peghead Finish: Satin
- Peghead Type: Standard
- Headstock Overlay; West African Crelicam Ebony
- Peghead Inlay: Arrowheads, Mother of Pearl
- Bridge Pin: sWest African Crelicam Ebony
- Buttons; Nickel