Cowabunga! Grab your board shorts and your Sonoran and head on down to Laguna to play some tunes and ride the waves. This dreadnought cutaway California Series beauty with electronics will have you admiring its cool Strat® guitar headstock, soft C-shaped maple neck and hip checkerboard binding ’til the sun comes down! Other cool features include a new vintage-inspired pickguard design, rosewood fingerboard and scalloped bracing. Perfect for Fender enthusiasts, fans of vintage-style guitars, players who want a different look and vibe and anyone who wants to ride the wave of Fender’s rich musical history and SoCal lifestyle!
Solid Spruce Top, Laminated Mahogany Back and Sides
Scalloped X Bracing
Fishman® Isys III System
Rosewood Bridge with Compensated Saddle and chrome Vintage Fender® Style tuning keys with Aged White Plastic Buttons
Fender® Stratocaster® Headstock Shape, Matching Painted Headstock, Fender Tight Dreadnought Body Shape, Dual Action Truss Rod, Traditional Fender Bridge, Factory Mounted Forward Strap Button with Internal Block Reinforcement, White Dot Inlays, Checkerboard Rosette, Vintage "C" Shaped Neck, Multiple Body Bindings
A self-contained ice maker: compact, easy to use and requires no installation. Makes 3 different ice cube sizes. Ideal for home bars, recreation rooms, boats...almost anywhere. Just a few simple steps and you'll get the first batch of 12 cubes in less than 10 minutes! Makes up to 2lbs of ice in an hour and up to 35lbs of ice in 24 hours. Highly portable, you can enjoy cool, refreshing ice wherever 115V outlet (and water) is available.
Stylish Platinum design adds compliment to you kitchen, office, mini-bars and more!
Make up to 35lbs of ice cubes per day
Stores up to 2.5lbs of ice at a time
Produces approx. 12 ice cubes in less than 10 minutes
Designed and built under the supervision of Takamine’s head luthiers, G-Series guitars are created to serve all players from the hobbyist to professional. The G340C NEX features a spruce top for extended dynamic range and a rich harmonic content. Mahogany back and sides enhance resonance. Gloss finish adds durability and enduring beauty. Includes the famous Takamine under saddle pickup and TP4T preamp with three band EQ and built in tuner.
Designed by the makers of the Professional Hand Made Takamine models played by pros on stages all over the world
Built for maximum acoustic performance and playability with quality tone woods and the latest in pickup and preamp designs.
Features a built-in Chromatic Digital Tuner and active three band EQ for total tone control.
It's scaled-down jumbo shape provides great balance to the tone and is comfortable to hold.
Great durable instrument for all playing levels.
Takamine G Series EG440C NEX Acoustic Electric Guitar, Natural Reviews
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I never purchased a guitar on line before, I always believed that you shoul dbe able to play it first. I still tend to believe that, but I took a risk on this one. I was not dissapointed. The reviews all said that it was a quality instrument, and that is what swayed me. Now I can be included in those that give it glowing recomendations. The only thing I found that I did not like was that there is no front mounting point for a strap.
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The 310ce a true performer's workhorse, combining technology and craftsmanship with understated style. A Venetian cutaway adds dimension to classic Dreadnought styling, while the tone of Sapele is faithfully amplified via the Taylor Expression System. Crisp, black binding flanks the satin-finish Sapele back and sides and glossy Sitka spruce top, and then continues up the fretboard.
6-String Dreadnought with Venetian cutaway
Better amplification with the Taylor Expression System
Sitka Spruce top
Sapele back and sides
Ebony fretboard and bridge
Tusq nut and saddle
Chrome-plated Taylor tuners
Adjustable truss rode
Strung with Elixir Medium Gauge Strings with NANOWEB Coating
Taylor's Dreadnought The original Dreadnought acoustic guitar appeared early in the 20th Century, and its no-frills, no-nonsense shape made it a logical namesake of the huge battleships of that day. Most subsequent Dreadnoughts, including Taylor's, have been derivative of that early design. In 1997, however, Bob Taylor re-designed the Taylor Dreadnought by softening the curves at the top and bottom and generally refining its overall shape. In 2003, gloss-finish Dreadnoughts also underwent bracing refinements that substantially increased their overall volume and bass response, without sacrificing Taylor's signature balance and clarity. Dreadnought six-strings shine as "plectrum" or "rhythm" guitars because they respond well to flatpicking or light-to-heavy strumming.
A Venitian cutaway in the 310ce Dreadnought body allows better access to the upper frets. In the past, many players moving to acoustic guitars grew accustomed to the cutaways on their electric guitars, while others simply like the freedom of movement into the upper register that a cutaway allows. Now, cutaways are favored as much for their decorative appeal as for their function.
Features ebony wood fretboard and bridge and Venetian cutaway.
Rings Bright and Clear The top is made from Sitka Spruce, a dense, straight-grained wood that has the highest strength and elasticity-to-weight ratio among available tonewoods. It's these attributes that make Sitka Spruce an ideal material not only for soundboards, but also for internal bracing. The Sitka top will produce a tone slightly brighter tone than Engelmann Spruce.
The back and sides of the 310ce are made from the mahogany-like sapele wood, which has gained a legion of fans ever since Taylor introduced it in 1998. As a tonewood, it's denser and harder than mahogany, so it has a crisper, clearer, brighter, "pop"-ier sound than its more familiar counterpart. Loud and robust, with a lovely ribboned grain, sapele has been used by Spanish guitar makers for many years.
The Taylor Expression System gives you a natural acoustic sound.
Pure Reproduction of An Acoustic Sound In the past, Taylor had relied on after-market pickups that employed traditional piezo technology. But the result was a distorted tone that failed to capture the natural acoustic richness and dynamics of a Taylor for live performance. After several years of research, Taylor designed their own groundbreaking pickup system that uses magnetics much like a microphone. The result is an exceptionally pure reproduction of an acoustic guitars natural sound. The Taylor Expression System delivers an amplified tone that will satisfy the most demanding pro player, yet makes it simple for anyone to plug in and sound great.
The Expression System incorporates three different magnetic sensors. Two strategically placed Dynamic Body Sensors affixed to the underside of the soundboard capture the complex nuances of the tops vibration, while a Dynamic String Sensor mounted beneath the fretboard extension registers string and neck vibration. The preamp boosts the pickup signal cleanly, without the need for artificial EQ "coloration." The balanced, low-impedance signal the Expression System produces can run direct into a mixer or PA in most situations, and is free of distortion at almost any volume.
Three simple, unintrusive onboard control knobs preserve the aesthetic beauty of your Taylor, yet allow you to easily adjust the volume, bass, and treble to suit your personal preferences and performance environment. When set flat, the tone controls add no color and produce the most natural sound. Or, add bass or treble (or subtract) to adjust for the room or personal tastes. The payoff is in the purity of high-fidelity amplified tone, unprecedented dynamic range, and extraordinary resistance to feedback and distortion. It enables all of the expressive subtleties of your playing to come through, just the way you intended.
Solid sitka spruce top is joined with sapele sides and back for a crisp and bright sound.
Construction Taylor takes pride in using the finest quality woods for their guitars, like ebony for every fretboard they make. The tone woods for the 310ce were quartersawn and carefully book-matched before being sorted, dried, and prepared by Bob Taylor and his experienced team of luthiers. The 310ce pearl inlay and binding work was also done by hand, providing care and "touch" that no machine can give. Taylor believes that precision matters, which is why they rely on laser cutters and computer-aided milling machines to consistently hit minute tolerances that were impossible a decade ago.
Balance and Bracing A balanced tone is critical to a quality recorded sound. Guitars that are too heavily weighted towards a particular end of the tonal spectrum (too "bassy," for example) tend to be tougher to record. While the Dreadnought shape has more volume or bass than other shapes, the overall balance on the 310ce is not compromised.
Features large pearl dot inlays.
Straight Necks Matter Don't all guitars have straight necks? The answer is usually yes, but the real question is will they stay that way? Since its inception, the acoustic guitar had a major design flaw. The fretboard lacked sufficient support to remain truly straight because of top movement caused by changes in humidity. All guitars experience this phenomenon--often resulting in a slight bump at the 14th fret--but not all guitars respond to it in the same way.
Introduced in 1999 and a standard feature since 2001, the patented New Technology (NT) neck was designed by Bob Taylor and his team to accomplish the primary goal of building a straighter, more stable guitar neck. While some necks may bend in the face of humidity and other factors, the NT Neck stays stable and straight.
Adjustability is another major NT advantage. Since the NT Neck angle is created by spacers and requires no glue, adjustment simply requires a repair person with a new set of spacers and about five spare minutes. Altering the neck angle of a traditional neck assembly could require invasive surgery to remove wood and relocate the bridge.
The bottom line: The NT Neck on the 310ce means a stable, easy-to-adjust neck that stands up to the pressures all acoustic guitars face.
Tuners Precise, gleaming tuners add appealing form to an important function, while the type of strings used can alter the feel and the tone of your guitar. Taylor pays careful attention to both, using tuners and strings that are optimized for the 310ce guitar. Together, they are among the keys to an easy-playing, incredible-sounding Taylor.
Solid Sitka Spruce Top
Solid Sapele Back/Sides
Dreadnought
Cutaway; ES
Hardshell Case Included
Taylor Guitars 310ce Dreadnought Acoustic Electric Guitar Reviews
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This guitar is amazing. It is very crisp and bright so it is great for finger picking. Taylor is the new premier guitar maker. I was going to get a Gibson but they don't have different size necks. The neck on a Taylor, which is real ebony, is not even glued on so a repair guy can change the angle in ten minutes. Also the fretboard and neck continue up into the body, intead of the neck stopping and the fretboard resting on the body. When a neck bends it caused a bump at the 14 fret. Taylor has fixed this problem. Their pickup is the best. Research it before you spend money. The 300 series is the cheapest line with the expression system (yeah!!) A mint vintage Gibson is worth 100,000 and that is why they are not changing there technology. But there is better technology nowadays. Why not use it. The finish on a Taylor is UV cured in ten minutes. This shaves 3 days and a bit of money off the cost of the guitar. The wood doesn't warp in those three days. Also, the finish only has ten... Read more
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