Taylor Taylor Custom Baritone 8-String Grand Auditorium in Figured Tasmanian Blackwood
This Taylor Custom Baritone 8-String Grand Auditorium in Figured Tasmanian Blackwood was featured at the 2025 NAMM Show as part of Taylor's annual "Catch" event for dealers. From Taylor about this special instrument: "Featuring an exquisite tonewood set with a warm, woody sound, this custom 8-string baritone acoustic-electric boasts a singular musical personality and dusky visual allure. Taylor 8-string baritone models feature a lower B-to-B tuning with a 27-inch scale length that provides normal string tension for a familiar playing experience, while two octave-paired courses for the third and fourth strings add a splash of harmonic sparkle. Back, sides and top of hand-selected figured Tasmanian blackwood yield a focused, fundamental-rich tone that retains exceptional clarity with the deeper baritone tuning. The non-cutaway Grand Auditorium body, braced with a specialized voicing architecture, sports a shaded edgeburst and a full-body gloss finish along with a green abalone rosette, peghead logo and GA-LTD inlays, creating visual harmony with figured Hawaiian koa binding, smoked nickel tuners and dark-stained sycamore pickguard and bone bridge pins. Equipped with an onboard ES2 pickup, this custom baritone model ships in a brown deluxe hardshell case." Photos are of the actual guitar for sale, SN 1211014103 Stock Code: M028202011006630048-25C44 UPC: 00887766137481 Number of Strings: 8 String Orientation: Right Handed Body Shape: Grand Auditorium Bracing System: X-Bracing Cutaway: None Color: Shaded Edgeburst Electronics: Expression System 2 Case / Bag: Brown Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case Top Wood: Tasmanian Blackwood Back / Side Wood: Tasmanian Blackwood Rosette: Green Abalone Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole Back Configuration: 2-Piece, No Wedge Body Binding: Figured Hawaiian Koa Armrest: None Top Finish: Gloss Back / Side Finish: Gloss Neck Wood: Neo-tropical Mahogany Nut Width: 1-3/4" Neck Profile: Standard Carve Scale Length: 27" Backstrap: Figured Hawaiian Koa Peghead Type: Paddle Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard Inlay: Green Abalone Early Koa Series (GA-LTD) Peghead Inlay: Green Abalone Early Koa Series (GA LTD) Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony Peghead Binding: None Neck Finish: Satin Peghead Finish: Gloss Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony Nut & Saddle: Black TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle Bridge Pins: Stained Bone Factory Strings: Elixir Nanoweb Baritone 8-String Set (.012 - .070) Pickguard: Dark Stained Sycamore Tuners: Taylor Smoked Nickel with Smoked Nickel Buttons Strap Pin: Black End Pin: Black
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