Designed exclusively for Sweetwater, this refined take on our flagship 814ce boasts a custom sapphire color treatment on its soundboard and a suite of elegant visual details. Solid Indian rosewood back and sides are paired with a Sitka spruce top in a comfortable, versatile Grand Auditorium body to produce a lush response with warm lows, pristine trebles and a slightly scooped midrange. A Venetian cutaway offers easier access to the upper register, while a radiused Indian rosewood armrest ensures a more comfortable feel for your strumming arm. Inside, V-Class bracing boosts volume, lengthens the sustain and enhances harmonic agreement between notes played up and down the slim Taylor neck. Elegant green abalone inlays, featuring the original motif used when the Grand Auditorium body was first introduced as a limited edition, adorn the smoky ebony fretboard and peghead. The appointment package includes a mother-of-pearl peghead logo, a single-ring green abalone rosette with Indian rosewood/maple/black purfling, Hard Rock maple body and soundhole binding, ebony fretboard and peghead binding, a Hard rock maple back strip, an Indian rosewood pickguard, and ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots. Equipped with Taylor smoked nickel tuners and ES2 electronics, the 814ce Special Edition, Sapphire ships in a deluxe hardshell case.