Taylor T5 Custom Guitar with Koa Top Prices

A Hawaiian Koa top makes this T5 Custom practically irresistible. A delicate edge-burst sets off Koa's dramatic figure and variation, accented by Gold hardware and Abalone Artist inlays. The T5's performance matches its over-the-top good looks with a versatile range of electric and acoustic tones, plugged into both acoustic and electric amps.

A Hawaiian Koa top makes this T5 Custom practically irresistible. A delicate edge-burst sets off Koa's dramatic figure and variation, accented by Gold hardware and Abalone Artist inlays. The T5's performance matches its over-the-top good looks with a versatile range of electric and acoustic tones, plugged into both acoustic and electric amps.

The Taylor T5 Custom C2 features a Hawaiian koa top, making it practically irresistible. A delicate edge-burst sets off koa’s dramatic figure and variation, accented by gold hardware and abalone Artist inlays. The T5’s performance matches its over-the-top good looks with a versatile range of electric and acoustic tones, plugged into both acoustic and electric amps. Thirty years ago, Taylor couldn't have imagined building an electric guitar. Now, after a relentless pursuit of innovation, the Taylor T5 feels like a natural next step. A lot can happen in the course of three decades. Taylor listened closely as playing styles evolved and the line between acoustic and electric began to blur. They evolved, too. They honed their craft, inventing new pickups and pushing technology into totally new territory. The time for a guitar with real electric and acoustic tones has arrived. Beginning with a fully-hollow thinline body that makes your acoustic tone authentic, Theylor designed the T5 to perform equally well through both electric and acoustic amps. Thanks to its humbucking pickups and proprietary body sensor, the T5 produces a versatile range of pure analog tones from strumming acoustic to crunch electric and everything in between. No catches, no compromises. One flick of its five-way switch and you're on your way. Available in T5 Standard and T5 Custom configurations, the T5 features sapele back and sides with your choice of spruce, maple, or koa tops as well as stylized f-holes, 5-way pickup, electric Nanoweb® coated Elixir® Strings, Taylor T-Lock™ neck joint, and a variety of sunburst and colored finishes. What's your tone today? Where do you want to take it tomorrow? Wherever you're going, the Taylor T5 will help you get there. Taylor Guitars Look at that. Seated in his neat, spacious office in Taylor Guitars' factory complex in El Cajon, California, company co-founder and CEO Kurt Listug cannot stifle a laugh as he studies a faded snapshot. The photograph, mined from the depths of an old cardboard box filled with dusty memorabilia, depicts the original Taylor shop on its very first day of existence -- October 15, 1974. On the left, pony-tailed, 22-year-old employee Tim Luranc is examining something, while then-part-owner Steve Schemmer shovels water from the floor into a bucket. A companion photo shows the adjoining room on the same day. Crude, garish, overhead lights illuminate a funky old refrigerator amid indistinguishable clutter; a 'humidity-controlled' booth with plastic-film walls; and a rough concrete floor pocked with puddles of standing water and clumps of soggy sawdust. 'Primitive' and 'wet' aptly describe both scenes 'That place was so bad, ' Listug recalls, shaking his head. 'The roof leaked like crazy, and whenever it rained, the place flooded. It rained hard the night before we opened, so we spent the entire morning of our first day in business trying to get as much water out of there as we could.' Co-founder and company president Bob Taylor surveys the photos and fills in the gaps. 'See those clumps of wet sawdust? When it flooded, we'd take all the sawdust that we'd already swept up, and sprinkle it around the floor to soak up the water. It made the place even more of a pig sty, ' he says, laughing. 'But it was fun. What did we know? We were just kids. Somehow, we'd skirted having to get real jobs. We didn't have a boss, we were making guitars. What could be better?' Despite the semi-aquatic conditions and inauspicious circumstances of Taylor's first few days of life, Listug's voice betrays a genuine wistfulness as he recalls the 'hungry years' that made it possible for the company to be celebrating its 25th Anniversary in 1999. Listug enjoys reminiscing about the long, painstaking process of co-shepherding Taylor Guitars from its humble, naive beginnings to its current status as one of the world's most su