Taylor Legacy 855e

A Jumbo body carries more internal air volume than a dreadnought or Grand Auditorium, and that extra volume is what gives the Legacy 855e its size-appropriate low end — bigger, looser, and slower to peak than a smaller-bodied Taylor. Scalloped Open X Bracing amplifies that character rather than working against it: where V-Class bracing tightens a top's response for more headroom and sustain, the X-brace pattern here lets the Jumbo's large top move more freely, producing the kind of broad, blooming low end players associate with a vintage jumbo rather than the more controlled, focused projection V-Class delivers on Taylor's modern-voiced models.

The 1-7/8-inch nut is the detail that sets the 855e apart from the rest of the Legacy line and most of Taylor's current catalog, which runs a 1-3/4-inch nut almost everywhere else. That extra eighth of an inch matters more than it sounds: it gives fingerstyle players more room between strings for cleaner right-hand separation, and it's the width many players raised on vintage flattops actually expect from a jumbo-bodied guitar. Sitka spruce over Indian rosewood keeps the tonal pairing consistent with the rest of the line — Sitka's stiffness handles a hard attack, rosewood adds the harmonic complexity underneath — but the wider neck is what makes this specific model, not just the body size, the reason to choose it.

Set next to the Legacy 810e, the closest comparison inside the line, the 855e trades the 810e's Tapered Dreadnought focus for a bigger, airier Jumbo low end and a wider nut, at $100 more. Both share the same Sitka-over-rosewood pairing and the same X-brace, vintage-forward philosophy, so the choice between them comes down to body size and neck width rather than a difference in tonal character. Players who want maximum low-end air and extra string spacing land on the 855e; players who want a more classic dreadnought feel land on the 810e.

Every Legacy 855e sold through The Acoustic Shoppe ships under the Dread-Not Guarantee — a 30-day in-home trial to make sure the Jumbo body and wider nut are the right fit, followed by a full year of 90% trade-in value toward anything else in the store. On this $3,499 instrument, that's $3,149 in credit, so the real downside exposure is $350 over a full year. It ships after a professional setup and inspection from a certified in-house tech, plus a free humidity monitoring kit to help protect the solid rosewood back and sides.

That setup is part of our full 23-point professional inspection, run on every instrument we sell regardless of price point. See the Taylor Legacy collection for the full three-model line, or compare directly against the Legacy 810e and Legacy 914ce; for the complete Taylor lineup we carry, browse Taylor Guitars.

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.