{"title":"Taylor Koa Special","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe K24ce Special Edition is Hawaiian koa from top to back, a body built entirely from one tonewood instead of the more common spruce-over-hardwood pairing found on most of Taylor's Grand Auditorium lineup. Koa is denser and less resonant than spruce right out of the case, so a koa-top guitar opens up compressed and midrange-forward on day one and only gets more complex, more overtone-rich as the wood plays in over the following year. At $4,499, this Grand Auditorium carries an appointment package built specifically for this model: Paua abalone and Indian rosewood accents run through the rosette and body purfling, polished bronze tuners replace Taylor's standard chrome or gold hardware, and a dark stained sycamore pickguard sits against the koa's warm grain instead of the tortoiseshell or black pickguards found elsewhere in the catalog. Taylor Claria electronics round out the build, giving the plugged-in tone a fuller low end than the outgoing Expression System 2.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaylor also builds an all-koa K24ce under the Builder's Edition banner, and it's worth being direct about how the two differ so the naming similarity doesn't blur them together. Builder's Edition K24ce is the higher tier: $6,499, gold Gotoh hardware, and a Paua Spring Vine inlay running up the fretboard and rosette. The K24ce Special Edition on this page sits at a different price point and a different appointment package entirely — polished bronze tuners and Paua\/Indian rosewood accents on the rosette and purfling, not gold Gotoh hardware or Spring Vine inlay. Same wood, same body shape, two distinct guitars.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/3348\/4349\/collections\/Taylor-Next-Generation-K24ce-Special-Edition-1210155088-FrontLeft-2026_png.webp?v=1784733693","url":"https:\/\/theacousticshoppe.com\/collections\/taylor-koa-special.oembed","provider":"The Acoustic Shoppe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}