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Taylor Classic Electric Guitar (2008-SB X1)
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Taylor Classic Electric Guitar

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The electric guitar reinvented from the ground up. Featuring original design 3/4-size humbuckers, a sleek all-aluminum bridge, fresh body design, proprietary single-bolt T-lock neck joint, and unique switching capabilities, Taylor's innovative imprints are all over their Classic Electric Guitar. The swamp ash body is beveled for playing comfort and easy access to higher frets. See our website for details.
  • Body style: Beveled single-cutaway with contoured back
  • Body wood: swamp ash
  • Scale length: 24-7/8" Taylor short scale
  • Neck joint: single bolt T-lock ™ neck joint
  • Neck wood: maple
  • Fretboard: rosewood
  • Neck shape: Taylor neck
  • Frets: 22
  • Fretboard radius: 15"
  • Bridge: aluminum Taylor-designed
  • Pickups: Taylor-designed humbuckers (3/4 size)
  • Pickup control: 5-way selector: 1- Neck pickup
  • 2- Two inside coils from both pickups in parallel
  • 3- Both coils of neck pickup w/ inside coil of bridge pickup
  • 4- Two inside coils from both pickups in series
  • 5- Bridge pickup
  • Controls: master volume, master tone
  • Tuners: Taylor
  • Inlays: dot
  • Pickguard: crushed pearl
  • Finish: trans white
  • Case: Rectangular hardshell Taylor case

Taylor Classic Electric Guitar
The Taylor solidbody electric guitar has arrived! Featuring original new pickups, a sleek all-aluminum bridge, fresh body design, proprietary neck-to-body construction, and unique switching capabilities, Taylor's innovative imprints are all over their Classic Electric Guitar.

The unique Taylor-designed pickups are the foundation the Taylor solid bodies are built on. The Classic is loaded with 3/4-size humbuckers featuring a new type of magnet and special winding process. The combination creates vintage humbucker sound with the power and dynamic range of modern pickups.

Five pickup settings with carefully chosen voicings give you a great range of tones:
1) Neck pickup
2) "Skinny neck tone"-two inside coils from both pickups wired in parallel
3) "In-between rock tone"-both coils of neck pickup combined with the inside coil of bridge pickup for classic bright single-coil tone with the added fullness of neck tone. Great for semi-distorted amp setting.
4) Fat single-coil-two inside coils from both pickups in series (north from neck and south from bridge) creating, in effect, a 4" humbucker.
5) Bridge pickup


The swamp ash body is beveled on the back, sides and in the cutaway so you're always playing in comfort and able to easily reach the upper frets. The maple neck features the single bolt T-Lock™ neck joint that pulls the neck into the body. The simple yet ingenious jigsaw joint shape provides a set neck feel and accurate intonation.

The bridge, also Taylor-designed, is amazing smooth across the top. It looks and feels clean and classy. No exposed adjustment screws to clutter the looks or get caught on.

Even the Classic's knobs are a departure from standard fare: elegant looks with a lipped edge that allows great one-finger control. Sweaty hands? Taylor includes rubber O-ring grips that slip over the knobs.

For years, Bob Taylor was asked if they were going to build a solid body electric, and for years, the answer was no. Bob's thinking was simple: he wasn't going to build a solidbody electric unless he felt there was a real reason to. In other words, he wouldn't put the Taylor name on a guitar that was just another version of what already existed.

For this electric guitar to happen, it had to be innovative, unique and worthy of a place alongside the guitars that electric guitar players have loved for generations. When the design group at Taylor invented new pickups and Bob heard them, he knew the time had come. Starting with the pickups, each element of this solid body was designed from the ground up. The ingenuity that Bob Taylor insisted on resulted in the creation of an electric guitar that's sure to inspire and well-equipped to impress.

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