Taylor 800-Series 855e Legacy Edition Jumbo 12-String - Spruce Top with Rosewood Back and Sides

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Legacy 855e

Bob’s easy-playing 12-strings helped put Taylor on the map, and the Legacy 855e honors one of his seminal models, featuring the classic Jumbo body shape in rosewood and spruce. This 12-string model offers a playing experience unlike anything else currently available in the Taylor line, blending the warmth, clarity and balance of the rosewood/spruce tonewood pairing with blooming overtones and waves of gorgeous octave sparkle. Players will appreciate the comfortable neck profile and string setup, which continues to distinguish our 12-strings as the gold standard of playability. This non-cutaway acoustic-electric is voiced with the X-bracing pattern that Bob used for many years.

Vintage design touches include a mustache-style bridge and straight-ear peghead shape, along with white binding, a three-ring rosette in green abalone, non-engraved Large Diamond fretboard inlays in mother-of-pearl, ebony bridge pins with green abalone dots, a faux-tortoiseshell pickguard, nickel tuning machines, and a gloss-finish body and neck.

 

Features:

• Solid Indian rosewood back and sides with Sitka spruce top
• Jumbo 12-string with exceptional octave shimmer
• Classic mustache bridge and straight-ear peghead
• LR Baggs Element VTC undersaddle pickup with soundhole-mounted controls

 

Highlights:

 

Overview:

• Number of Strings
• 12 String
• Orientation
• Right Handed
• Body Shape
• Jumbo
• Bracing System
• X-Bracing with Relief Rout
• Cutaway
• Non-cutaway
• Color
• Natural
• Case/Bag
• Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown

 

Body:

• Top Wood
• Sitka Spruce
• Back/Side Wood
• Indian Rosewood
• Rosette
• Green Abalone 3 Ring
• Back Configuration
• 2-piece No Wedge
• Body Binding
• White
• Armrest
• None
• Top Finish
• Gloss
• Back/Side Finish
• Gloss

 

Neck:

• Neck Wood
• Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Fretboard Wood
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Profile
• Standard Carve
• Fretboard Inlay
• Mother-of-Pearl Large Non-Engraved Diamonds
• Fretboard Binding
• White
• Neck Finish
• Gloss

 

Peghead:

• Nut Width
• 1-7/8"
• Peghead Veneer Wood
• Indian Rosewood
• Scale Length
• 25-1/2"
• Peghead Inlay
• None
• Peghead Type
• Standard
• Peghead Binding
• None
• Peghead Finish
• Gloss

 

Miscellaneous:

• Bridge
• West African Crelicam Ebony Mustache
• Nut & Saddle
• White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins
• West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
• Strings
• D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.010 - .047)
• Pickguard
• Tortoise
• Tuners
• Taylor Nickel with Nickel Buttons
• Strap Pin
• Nickel
• End Pin
• Nickel

Model:	855ELE
Manufacturer:	Taylor