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Taylor Builder's Edition 717

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Product information - Taylor Builder's Edition 717

Fully solid Grand-Pacific-acoustic guitar with spruce top and rosewood body

Builder's Edition acoustic guitar with Grand Pacific body shape
Solid Sitka spruce top and solid rosewood body
Taylor V-Class bracing
Mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and 20 frets
Arrowheads mother of pearl fingerboard inlays
44.4 mm nut width and 648 mm scale length
Ebony bridge with micarta inlay
Nickel-plated Taylor tuners
Natural satin finish
Single ring rosette and Sapele binding
Case included
Made in USA

The Taylor Builder's Edition 717 comes in a sturdy case.

Taylor Builder's Edition 717 at a glance

With the Taylor Builder's Edition 717, the US manufacturer presents a traditional acoustic guitar, with which it once again proves its enormously innovative and professional guitar-building skills. This US-American quality product is made only of selected and best-aged tonewoods, which produce a tremendous acoustic sound. Furthermore, the model was equipped with in-house developments such as both ergonomic and sound-intensive Grand-Pacific construction, the patented V-Class bracing and tuning-stable Taylor tuners, which make the guitar a first-class choice for acoustic enthusiasts in terms of sound and playability. The additionally included Taylor Deluxe Hardshell-Western Floral Case offers, besides its attractive design, a completely safe transport and an excellent storage possibility.

Taylor Builder's Edition 717 acoustic guitar with solid spruce top

Equipped with the best features, the Taylor Builder's Edition 717 offers premium quality.

Spruce and rosewood are classic tonewoods for professional guitars.

Sitka spruce top and rosewood body.

Due to its solid tonewoods and revolutionary in-house V-Class bracing, the Taylor Builder's Edition 717 exhibits excellent vibration characteristics, resulting in an outstandingly voluminous sound. It effortlessly asserts itself in loud environments and guarantees an overwhelmingly authentic performance. Meanwhile, the sound character is formed by the back and sides made of solid Indian rosewood, which knows how to convince with its balanced tone with strong basses and is therefore not without reason installed in numerous high-end guitars. A brilliant sound rich in overtones is provided by the solid top made of tightly-grained Sitka spruce, which is without a doubt the most popular top wood in the field of acoustic guitars. Its absolute premium sound fully unfolds after a certain play-in time and increasingly shows its full glory.

The mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard guarantees a unique playing feel.

Mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard and 44.4 mm nut width.

Of course, high playability is not ignored. The mahogany neck with its scarf-neck profile fits extremely well in the hand, while the velvety ebony fingerboard is made for quick chord changes and tone sequences and allows the fretting hand to glide effortlessly over all 20 frets. The nut width of 44.4 mm furthermore meets all criteria for powerful strumming and virtuoso fingerpicking, making the instrument a great all-rounder for all playing styles. The guitar part is rounded off by attractive mother-of-pearl fingerboard inlays in the form of filigree arrowheads, which complement the noble Sapele binding, the harmonizing single-ring rosette and last but not least the popular classic Natural Satin finish with its distinct grain and elegant highlights.

Taylor - The epitome of fine quality

As one of the largest guitar manufacturers, Taylor is truly an authority in the production of first-class instruments. Thus, professional manufacturing by skilled craftsmen results in the very finest products for life, whose value is always maintained - or even increased! This is due in equal part to exquisite tonewoods, which do not warp due to long storage and selected quality and as a result, can hardly be surpassed in terms of high quality. Only spruce, mahogany, cedar or Koa of proven quality are used for the tops. By the way, careful production in combination with the best materials does not only apply to guitars. Guitar bags and all accessories are also of first-class quality. Finally, a conscientious final inspection does not let even the smallest defects pass and ensures absolutely flawless guitars even before shipment.

As if that were not enough, Taylor also places great importance on environmentally conscious actions.

Ebony & Koa: Sustainability at Taylor Guitars

Uncontrolled clearing of forests and overexploitation lead to massively endangered wood species, which can no longer regenerate due to the high pace of mining. These include ebony and koa in particular, whose dwindling stocks and the resulting ecological problems have prompted a rethink at Taylor Guitars.

Sustainable ebony cultivation in Cameroon

Because ebony's hard, supple texture makes it particularly finger-friendly, it has long been the preferred choice for making fingerboards. Its attractive appearance is also extremely popular for bridges, headstock rests, bridge Pins and Bindings. However, high demand and a thriving black market outstripped stocks, landing ebony on the Red List of Endangered Species in 1994. Moreover, only the jet-black heartwood, which makes up only a fraction of the tree, was used, resulting in a disproportionately large amount of waste in production. To protect the forests, Taylor has thus been working since 2011 with the Crelicam Wood Mill in Yaoundé in Cameroon to promote controlled consumption by processing waste products. Thus, not only black ebony elements are found in Taylor guitars, but also the different coloured, more clearly-grained parts of the tree. This complete recycling is an effective method of preserving stocks and successfully counteracts their dramatic decline and the negative ecological effects that accompany it.

"We need to use the ebony that the forest gives us" - Bob Taylor

In video: Taylor Guitars - "The State of ebony"

Siglo Tonewoods Project

Koa acacia populations have also suffered severe losses over the last 20 years. Unsustainable forestry as well as overexploitation led to a decline that can only be stopped by proactive action and reforestation. Therefore, Taylor Guitars together with Pacific Rim Tonewoods founded the Siglo Tonewoods project, which aims to rebuild the Hawaiian virgin forest. This is a large cultivation area for koa acacia and other species, which allows the use of koa wood on a controlled scale.