This retrospective family of guitars honors the legacy of Taylor founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug and their contributions to the world of guitar-making with models that channel Bob’s early inspirations and design innovations.
The Taylor Guitars Legacy Collection celebrates a half-century of Taylor musical innovation.
We’re excited to debut our collection with five acoustic models that honor our heritage. Three are reimagined rosewood/spruce models from our iconic 800 Series, which trace back to some of Bob Taylor’s earliest guitars. The other two spotlight Bob’s flagship Grand Auditorium body style, which came to define the modern Taylor sound. Inspired by Bob’s original builds, these retrospective models reflect the full scope of our history by blending foundational design elements with key developments along the way.
The first 100 guitars built of each model feature an interior label personally signed by Taylor founders Bob Taylor and Kurt Listug.
A Blend of Old and New
These guitars are not pure reissues of the originals. But they do reflect the fundamental qualities of the original builds, while updating select features where appropriate.
Bob Taylor personally oversaw the development of these guitars, curating the design elements and drawing from his own personal history with them.The result is a collection with the look, feel and sound of true "legacy" guitars, but subtly reimagined with aesthetic refinements and performance enhancements introduced over the course of Bob’s tenure as Taylor’s guitar designer (before Andy Powers arrived).
• Cutaway Grand Auditorium: The mahogany/cedar Legacy 514ce and rosewood/cedar Legacy 714ce honor the iconic Grand Auditorium body style which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year—with two classic cutaway GA models that aren’t currently available in the Taylor line.
• Western Red Cedar tops: Offering a warmth and touch sensitivity that fingerstyle players and light to moderate strummers will love, these guitars record really well. These models offer players a choice between mahogany and rosewood tonal flavors.
• X-Bracing: These are voiced the way the original models were in the ‘90s and 2000s.
• Patented Taylor neck
• Onboard Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC (volume, tone, compression), featuring an undersaddle pickup and all-discrete, Class A preamp that includes a soundhole mounted volume and tone control.
• Legacy 714ce: Black plastic binding with black and white pinstripes on the top, side and back, and green abalone dot fretboard inlays (6.3mm)
• Green abalone three-ring rosette, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, gloss-finish body and satin-finish neck, faux tortoiseshell pickguard and Taylor gold tuning machines.
Specifications
Body
- Back/Side Wood: Indian Rosewood
- Top Wood: Western Red Cedar
- Bracing: X-Class
Neck
- Neck: Mahogany
- Fretboard: West African Crelicam Ebony
- Nut Width: 1-3/4"
- Scale Length: 25-1/2"
Electronics
- Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
Miscellaneous
- Guitar Protection: Deluxe Hardshell Case, Brown
- Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Medium
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