Taylor T5 Custom Electric Guitar (with Case)

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Treat your eyes and your ears with the T5 Custom. It sports a gorgeous koa top and gold hardware, as well as five pickup settings for supreme tonal variety.

What's special about this item?

Feature: What it does:
Hawaiian koa top Gorgeous figuring; sweet tone mellows as it ages
Sapele back and sides Rich, warm, and focused midrange; added sustain
Ebony fretboard Dark color, tight grain; premium fretboard wood
Taylor T5 electronics with 5-way switch Wide tonal range; two humbuckers plus body sensor

Taylor has added a nice little treat to the world of hollowbody hybrid acoustic-electric axes with the Taylor T5 Custom electric guitar. This beauty boasts a distinctive look and a tone of its own with its Hawaiian koa top, sapele back and sides in a comfortable T5 shape with a Venetian cutaway. This resounding hollowbody offers a snug sapele neck, a smooth ebony fretboard with 21 jumbo frets, appealing white binding, a custom modern pickup complement, and flashy gold Taylor tuners. Upgrade your game in sonic style and visual appeal with this top-notch Taylor acoustic-electric!

The Sonic Appeal of Hawaiian Koa and Sapele

A tropical tonewood, Hawaiian koa will place more emphasis on your Taylor T5's higher frequencies for a bright sound that rolls off nicely and warms with age. Your T5's sapele back and sides offer the pleasant low and mid tones expected from mahogany guitars, and it pairs well with Hawaiian koa by adding an appealing note of body and tight, focused sonic articulation.

Where Acoustic Meets Electric

Your Taylor T5 sits right on the fringe of where acoustic guitars meet electric axes. This baby offers the best of both worlds -- plugged in, you get the rich and resounding tones of a hollowbody electric, and unplugged you get the full-bodied warmth and depth of an acoustic guitar. This sonic treasure's invitingly present unplugged sound also opens up doors for interesting miking options when recording or playing a gig.

Custom Pickup Orientation

To give read more your T5's electronic system a more singular sound, Taylor has designed a three-pickup orientation. An exposed bridge humbucker captures a slightly brighter sound from your strings, and a hidden sensor inside your T5 captures the warm resonance that your Hawaiian koa and sapele body produces. A third, also hidden, neck humbucker will capture a slightly beefier sound with more mids and low end. A five-way switch gives you plenty of sonic options -- so use these three pickups in any combination to suit your aural desires.

Dressed to Kill

Aside from producing a stellar acoustic-electric sound, your Taylor T5 Custom axe looks fantastic. This baby's Hawaiian-koa-topped body displays a wonderful grain pattern that as visually appealing as it is sonically. This guitar's smooth ebony fretboard and spires inlays also adds fashionable flair. Topping off your T5's classy threads are posh Taylor gold tuners.

Features:

- Hawaiian-koa-topped body in compact T5 shape
- Sapele back and sides
- Hollowbody design with comfortable Venetian cutaway
- Sapele neck with ebony fretboard of 21 jumbo frets
- Sleek white binding
- T5 electronics includes three pickups, one tone knob, one volume knob, and a five-way switch
- Pickups feature an exposed bridge humbucker, a hidden neck humbucker, and an acoustic body sensor
- Taylor gold tuners
- Taylor T5 hardshell case included
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- Shape: T5
- Back/Side Wood: Sapele
- Top Wood: Hawaiian Koa
- Neck/Heel: Sapele
- Electronics: T5 with Five-Way Switch
- Bracing: Standard T5 Bracing
- Binding: White
- Fretboard Wood: Ebony
- Fretboard Inlay: Spires
- Headstock Overlay: Ebony
- Bridge Inlay: None
- Bridge Pins: Ebony
- Nut and Saddle: Bone
- Tuners: Taylor Gold
- Truss Rod Cover: Black Plastic
- Back/Side Finish: Gloss
- Top Finish: Gloss
- Neck Finish: Gloss
- Cutaway: Venetian
- Pickguard: None
- Case: Taylor T5 Hardshell Brown

For support or warranty questions, please contact the manufacturer:
Phone: 800-943-6782

Taylor T5 Custom Electric Guitar

The vintage beauty of a shaded edgeburst Hawaiian koa top gives each Taylor T5 Custom a classic island vibe. Their versatile hollowbody hybrid is equipped with a three-pickup setup featuring an acoustic body sensor, a concealed neck humbucker, and a visible bridge humbucker, plus five-way switching and onboard tone controls, giving players an electric/acoustic guitar with a sweeping range of tones. Gold hardware, white binding and Taylor's progressive Spires fretboard inlay add sharp complementary touches. The guitar ships in a T5 hardshell case.

Reviewers gave this product an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars. (3 ratings)
Submitted March 11, 2015 by Geddy Israel in Denver, CO

"Astoundingly Beautiful Guitar"

Overall: 5 out of 5 stars
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I've been torn for awhile now as to the next guitar I wanted to get next. I have a cheap acoustic worth burning for firewood and a wonderful electric Parker Fly. For a while I've been pushing myself to play more electric to get more familiar with effects and amps, but my playing style for when I want to sit and piddle around has always lended itself to an acoustic feel. So I set out in search for a nice acoustic thinking I might get an acoustic electric if I found a suitable one. Then I found the Taylor T5 and realized that I could continue down my electric driven path but still be able to sit, unplugged and play and get a beautiful acoustic sound. The T5 is for me, the best of both worlds. A sleek guitar with an electric feel and stunning acoustic tonality for a thin hollow-body, even when plugged in. The Hawaiian Koa wood used is a real eye catcher and kinda steals my breath every time I see it. For my needs, this is the perfect guitar, and as versatile as it is, it could easily work in several situations where you need an acoustic guitar, and electric guitar, or both.

Musical Background:

I've been playing guitar recreationally for 10 years.

Musical Style:

Progressive Rock
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