Taylor Doyle Dykes Signature Model

Taylor’s Legacy series brings back a unique fingerstyle guitar.

Taylor’s Legacy Collection celebrates earlier versions of some of the company’s most successful designs. Built like Taylors from the 1990s to the 2000s, the guitars feature X-bracing and body styles that aren’t available in more recent models. The latest model is a reissue of the Doyle Dykes Signature Model, originally released in 2000. Check out this video on Doyle’s YouTube channel to hear him talk about the project. Featuring a grand auditorium body with a shallower depth than other Taylors in that style, the guitar has a short scale, a slim-carve neck, Florentine cutaway, and appointments that include Gretsch-style position markers. Built with a spruce top, maple back and sides, and finished in translucent orange, the guitar offers an appearance, sound, and playability like no other Taylor. In this video, Peghead Nation’s Teja Gerken demonstrates the guitar.  

Taylor Doyle Dykes Signature Model specs

• Grand Auditorium body with shallow depth
• Florentine cutaway
• Sitka spruce top 
• X- bracing with relief route
• Big leaf maple back and sides
• Hard rock maple neck
• West African Crelicam ebony fingerboard and bridge
• 24⅞-inch scale
• 1¾-inch nut width
• Gold Taylor tuning machines
• Taylor Claria electronics
• Made in USA
• $4,999 street 

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