Taylor Custom Shop Gold Label Super Auditorium Music Zoo-Spec Port Orford Cedar Tasmanian Myrtle

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This long-awaited Taylor Custom Shop Gold Label Super Auditorium has arrived and does not disappoint. This guitar is a part of our first run of customized Gold Label Super Auditoriums made of handpicked woods and materials during a trip to the Taylor factory in El Cajon, California. We wanted a touch-sensitive big-bodied acoustic, so the choice of Port Orford Cedar for the top was an easy one. Walking around the wood selection room with Andy Powers himself, we came across this stunning set of Tasmanian Myrtle used for the back and sides which is not just visually attention-grabbing but adds to the articulation and note definition. Wrapping up the visuals, we decided on Bloodwood to complement the Myrtle and Cedar with the body binding and a three-ring rosette. Being a Gold Label Collection guitar, this Super Auditorium has fanned V-Class bracing pattern that has a fan-like arrangement of braces in the lower bout - all set in place with traditional hot hide glue. The guitars feature a new long tenon neck joint to result in greater low-end resonance and a similarity in feel/tone to historic acoustics that feature dovetail neck joints. What's unique about Taylors use of the long-tenon is that it remains glueless and brings even easier micro-adjustment ability to the neck. Visually, each Gold Label Collection guitar has aesthetics based off of vintage banjos and mandolins, early Taylor designs from the 1970s and Andy's own pre-Taylor work on archtop guitars. There's a new headstock shape with an angled back cut and reinterpretation of the Taylor logo. The bridge is a curve wing design carved of Honduran rosewood rather than ebony and they are paired with bone bridge pins. Each Gold Label Collection guitar will also be loaded with L.R. Baggs Element electronics. Includes: Hardshell Case and Paperwork Acoustic-Electric Guitar 4 lbs, 9 oz. .840" Neck Thickness at 1st Fret .880" Neck Thickness at 9th Fret Honey Burst Finish  Port Orford Cedar Top Tasmanian Myrtle B