The 714ce Next Generation shares its Grand Auditorium body with the rest of Taylor's 14-fret cutaway lineup — a mid-sized shape with enough depth in the lower bout to avoid a thin low end, but narrow enough at the waist to stay comfortable through a long fingerstyle session. On top of that body sits a solid Western red cedar top, a softer and less dense wood than the Sitka spruce used across most of the catalog. That lower density means the top requires less string energy before it starts moving, so a light fingerstyle touch produces a full, present tone immediately rather than needing a harder attack to open the guitar up the way a stiffer spruce top does. Underneath, Indian rosewood back and sides add a dense, complex cell structure that generates a wide stack of overtones and a deep, ringing low end — the combination gives the 714ce both the immediate responsiveness cedar is known for and the harmonic depth rosewood adds once the player digs in harder.
Scalloped V-Class bracing with a Relief Rout sits underneath that top, replacing the crossed pattern of traditional X-bracing with two angled struts that redirect vibrational energy more evenly across the top's surface. That produces longer sustain, more volume without added string tension, and truer intonation up the neck. The Relief Rout adds a further channel through the bracing near the soundhole, which matters specifically on a cedar top: it's the detail that extends the guitar's dynamic headroom, letting a stronger strummer push the 714ce harder before the top compresses, without dulling the touch-sensitivity that makes a cedar top worth choosing for a fingerstyle player in the first place.
Onboard electronics are Taylor's Claria acoustic pickup system, a redesigned preamp built around a fuller, more natural low end than earlier Expression System pickups produced. For a guitar this responsive to touch dynamics, that matters: a lesser pickup would flatten out the exact dynamic range cedar and rosewood are built to deliver, while Claria is designed to carry that same responsiveness through a DI and out front-of-house speakers. The Cedar Top/Natural finish leaves the top's true color and grain visible rather than tinting or shading it, letting the cedar age and darken naturally the way players who choose this tonewood typically want.
Every 714ce Next Generation that leaves The Acoustic Shoppe ships under the Dread-Not Guarantee, our biggest advantage over any other Taylor dealer in the country. That's four benefits, not one: a 30-day in-home trial to confirm the guitar is the right fit once it's actually in your hands; a full year to trade it in toward anything else in the store at 90% of your purchase price back in credit — on this $3,199 guitar, that's $2,879 in trade credit, so the real downside exposure is $320 over a full year; a professional setup and inspection by our certified in-house tech before it ships; and a free Bluetooth humidity monitoring kit to help protect the cedar top and rosewood back and sides through seasonal humidity swings. It's on top of our full 23-point professional inspection, the same pre-sale quality check every instrument we sell goes through regardless of price point.
For the rest of the 700 Series, see the Taylor 700 Series collection, and for the complete Taylor lineup we carry, visit our Taylor Guitars collection. The Acoustic Shoppe is an Authorized Taylor Premier Dealer and Gold Label Advantage Dealer. Every instrument ships after a full 23-point professional inspection by our in-house repair tech. As a nine-time consecutive NAMM Top 100 Dealer, we handle warranty concerns directly on your behalf.
