Three New Gold Label Guitars Offer Exciting Musical Possibilities

Between the Gold Label Collection’s debut in January, the addition of the Grand Pacific this summer and now a third wave of new models, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of Gold Label guitars. The collection represents a journey into new territory for Taylor, delivering a warm, open, powerful sound driven by three primary elements:

New body shape designs: The all-new Super Auditorium shape, inspired by our iconic Grand Auditorium body, features slightly larger dimensions and no cutaway, and yields impressive depth and throwback warmth. A variant of our Grand Pacific round-shoulder dreadnought with a slightly greater body depth generates exceptional power with an old-school musical personality.
Fanned V-Class Bracing: This evolution of our game-changing voicing framework improves volume and sustain while adding greater warmth, power and midrange presence.
The Action Control Neck: The latest development in the long line of comfort-focused design innovations from Taylor, the Action Control Neck allows for quick adjustments to string height so you can dial in your feel with ease. The long-tenon joint also helps improve tonal transfer throughout the instrument, resulting in greater resonance and warmth.

The latest batch of new Gold Label guitars includes the Gold Label 514e, the Gold Label 714e and the Gold Label 817e, diversifying the collection with new body shape and tonewood combinations. The Super Auditorium will now be available in the 500 and 700 Series, while the deeper, Gold Label-exclusive version of the Grand Pacific shape joins the 800 Series for the first time.

Gold Label 514e

Sporting the classic combination of mahogany and spruce, this Super Auditorium acoustic-electric adds a new sonic dimension to that wood pairing’s midrange focus and woody voice. Players will notice greater warmth and power with an open, dynamic character and a touch of additional warmth and sweetness thanks to our torrefaction process for the Sitka spruce top. This model is available in natural, blacktop and sunburst top finishes, with your choice of firestripe or cream-colored pickguards for the sunburst variant. Other visual details include cream-colored binding, rosette, and Crest fretboard inlays, along with a Honduran rosewood Curve Wing bridge with matching bridge pins, nickel tuning machines, and a full-body gloss finish.

Specs at a Glance

Back/side wood: Mahogany
Top wood: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
Neck: Mahogany
Nut width: 1-¾”
Scale length: 25-½”
Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
Protection: Deluxe Hardshell Case, British Cocoa Exterior

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Gold Label 714e

Fresh on the heels of its Grand Pacific predecessor, the Gold Label 717e, this Super Auditorium gives players a new way to experience the beloved warmth, clarity and harmonic richness of the Indian rosewood/spruce pairing. The Gold Label 714e serves up an enticing blend of top-end articulation, low-end presence and lush, blooming overtones, with the torrefied spruce top adding a bit of aged character to the mix. Like its counterpart in the 500 Series, this model is available in natural, blacktop and sunburst finishes, and features cream-colored accents to go with its Crest inlays and full-body gloss finish.

Specs at a Glance

Back/side wood: Indian Rosewood
Top wood: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
Neck: Mahogany
Nut width: 1-¾”
Scale length: 25-½”
Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC
Protection: Deluxe Hardshell Case, British Cocoa Exterior

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Gold Label 817e

Finally, the 800 Series gets its first deeper-bodied Grand Pacific model in the Gold Label 817e, which boasts Honduran rosewood back and sides paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top. That wood pairing delivers an exceptionally sophisticated overtone character with rumbling lows, clear highs and a uniquely smooth response that lets it sit beautifully in a mix with vocals or other instruments. Details include grained ivoroid binding, a single-ring rosette in paua and Honduran rosewood, shell mother-of-pearl inlays in our Continental design, Gotoh 510 tuning machines with ebony buttons, an engraved faux-tortoiseshell pickguard, and a full-body gloss finish.