The Builder's Edition K24ce is a Grand Auditorium built from solid figured Hawaiian koa on the top, back and sides. Taylor gives the koa a bold, articulate midrange and bright, refined trebles, and the wood is known for opening up over years of playing, gaining depth and sweetness. Scalloped V-Class bracing warms the lows and adds projection.
This is the K24ce with Builder's Edition comfort: an armrest, a bevelled cutaway, and chamfered edges on the body and fretboard. The Action Control Neck and Claria electronics, with volume, mid-contour and tone, complete the Next Generation set.
Paua carries the appointments, on the single-ring rosette, the Spring Vine inlays and the body trim, under a gloss Shaded Edgeburst that Taylor sprays by hand.
Two other koa Grand Auditoriums sit beside it. The Next Generation K24ce has the same all-koa body without the armrest, with maple Spring Vine inlays and maple binding. The Next Generation K24ce Special Edition uses Select-grade koa with a Venetian cutaway and paua inlays.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY
Country of Origin: USA
Body Shape: Grand Auditorium
Cutaway: Beveled Cutaway
Bracing System: Scalloped V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout
Number of Strings: 6 String
Top Wood: Hawaiian Koa
Back/Side Wood: Hawaiian Koa
Rosette: Paua Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
Back Configuration: 2-piece or 4-piece Simons Wedge
Body Binding: None
Armrest: Bevel, Wood, Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Top Finish: Gloss
Back/Side Finish: Gloss
NECK
Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Fretboard Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Profile: Standard Carve
Fretboard Inlay: Spring Vine
Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
Scale Length: 25-1/2"
Peghead Inlay: Spring Vine
Peghead Type: Paddle
Peghead Binding: None
Peghead Finish: Satin
ELECTRONICS
Electronics: The Claria Acoustic Pickup System
HARDWARE
Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, White Micarta Saddle
Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
Pickguard: None
Tuners: Gotoh 510 Antique Gold with Antique Gold Buttons
Strap Pin: Gold
End Pin: Black



