Six New Gold Label Models | Taylor Guitars

A line of slope-shoulder dreadnought Grand Pacific models gets the Gold Label treatment.

June 25, 2025

Following the successful launch of its Gold Label Collection in January 2025, Taylor Guitars announces the expansion of the collection with a suite of new Gold Label Grand Pacific models. The new models mark the second wave of guitar models in Taylor’s exploration of warm, heritage-inspired acoustic flavors, featuring Taylor master builder Andy Powers’ reimagined Grand Pacific body shape, a round-shoulder dreadnought, now with a deeper body design that delivers enhanced sonic fullness and low-end expansiveness.

Gold Label Grand Pacific: Deeper Body, Deeper Sound
The new Gold Label models feature a Grand Pacific body that’s 3/8-inch deeper than Taylor’s standard Grand Pacific design, giving these guitars extra “lung capacity” and a deeper resonant frequency. This translates into more low-end power and projection — providing greater sonic push toward an audience or microphone while maintaining pleasing musical clarity. Even the treble notes have enhanced warmth and depth.

The Grand Pacific bodies are voiced with Taylor’s proprietary Fanned V-Class bracing architecture — exclusive to the Gold Label Collection — a new variant of its award-winning V-Class bracing platform that here adds midrange richness, enhances the sonic depth, and creates the pitch accuracy that V-Class is known for. While Fanned V-Class is also used to voice the Super Auditorium body style that made its debut as part of the original Gold Label launch in January, the Gold Label Grand Pacific leans even more toward a warm, powerful sound.

“Compared to the Super Auditorium body, the curves and depth of the Grand Pacific produce even more volume and tonal dimension,” says Andy Powers, Taylor’s Chief Guitar Designer, President and CEO. “Its voice is earthy, honest and uncomplicated. It’s a reliable acoustic workhorse — both seasoned and soulful.”

The Grand Pacific model offerings build around two classic tonewood pairings, Indian rosewood or mahogany coupled with a torrefied Sitka spruce top. Each wood pairing features three top finish/model options: natural, sunburst and blacktop. Mahogany 500 Series models include the Gold Label 517e (Natural), Gold Label 517e SB Cream, Gold Label 517e SB Firestripe and Gold Label 517e Blacktop; rosewood 700 Series models include the Gold Label 717e (Natural), Gold Label 717e SB Cream, Gold Label 717e SB Firestripe and Gold Label 717e Blacktop. Additionally, each of the two sunburst-top models is offered with a choice of either a firestripe or cream pickguard, bringing the count to eight Grand Pacific model variants.