Taylor Guitars
Top tier onlyGold Label K14e (814e) Koa - Natural
Listed at Sylvan Music · Santa Cruz, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Sylvan Music’s site.
$4,799
Last seen 3h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Sylvan Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Super Auditorium
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
Taylor Guitars
Founded in 1974 and built in El Cajon, California, Taylor grew into one of the largest names in American acoustics on a reputation for precision and quiet innovation. The Atlas carries only its highest end — where that craft turns bespoke: the Presentation Series, the ultra-limited Builder's Reserve and Custom Catch runs, and one-off Custom builds. You won't find standard number-series Taylors or Builder's Edition models here.
Sylvan Music
Sylvan Music has been on Mission Street in Santa Cruz since 1993 — a quietly remarkable shop opened in 1984 by Albert Markasky, who still builds and repairs in the back room. Albert's lineage is part of the shop's character: he apprenticed under David Morse in 1980, then rented a one-car garage with Jeff Traugott in 1983 before Jeff left to join Richard Hoover at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. That Sylvan-to-SCGC thread is a real piece of the Santa Cruz boutique-acoustic story, and the shop's continuing SCGC relationship shows in the inventory: the active Santa Cruz Guitar Company shelf is the deepest single-dealer SC catalog in the atlas, spanning OMs, D Customs, signature models, 50th Anniversary builds, and Custom Shop work. Goodall and Iris each carry a meaningful stack of in-stock boutique acoustics; rotating Lowden inventory rounds it out. The broader catalog runs much wider — Larrivée, Taylor, Duesenberg, Nash, Weber Mandolins, Dusty Strings, plus banjos, dulcimers, violins, and two vintage rooms — but Tonewood Atlas's scope intersects the boutique-acoustic shelf. For California boutique-acoustic shoppers, especially anyone tracking Santa Cruz Guitar Company inventory, Sylvan is the deepest in-person SC catalog on the West Coast plus a meaningful Goodall + Iris destination.
