TAYLOR T5 SERIES

Taylor introduced its T5 series in 2005. The Taylor T5 guitars are electric/acoustic hybrids, designed to save players changing instruments between songs and lugging multiple instruments to gigs. The T5 is also desgined to work well with both acoustic and electric amplifiers: plug into an acoustic amp (or direct into the PA system) for clear tones; plug into an electric amp for clean jazz /country tones or overdriven blues/rock sounds.

The T5 uses three pickups – a stacked humbucker in the bridge position, a hidden humbucker in the fretboard at the neck joint, and a Taylor Expression System sensor inside the body,  between the saddle and the tail. The onboard preamp is controlled by three small knobs, one for volume, the other two for active boost and bass/treble cut. A five-position switch toggles among the various pickup combinations and wide spectrum of electo-acoustic sounds.

TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM

The Taylor T5 Custom (introduced in 2005) is a hollow bodied electro-acoustic hybrid. The first T5 Customs had a spruce top as standard with optional flamed maple top (extra $500) or koa top (extra $700) - but the current model has a koa top. The T5 Custom has a three-pickup setup with an acoustic body sensor, a concealed neck humbucker, and a visible bridge humbucker. Controls are five-way pickup switching and onboard tone controls, giving players access to the full range of the T5 Custom's electric/acoustic tones.

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TAYLOR T5-S

The Taylor T5-S (T5 Standard) is an electric-acoustic hybrid. It has a completely hollow body with f-holes, with an active soundboard like in a fully acoustic guitar. The soundboard is a flat piece of spruce braced into an slight arch, but the T5-S is not an archtop guitar, it has a tone is more like a flat-top acoustic. The T5 models use the innovative T-Lock™ single bolt neck joint. Neck is mahogany with an ebony fingerboard and dot inlays. The bridge is an ebony acoustic style unit, with bone saddle and bone nut. Tuners are chrome plated.

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TAYLOR T5-S1

Taylor T5-S1 (T5 Standard 1) is an electric-acoustic hybrid. The T5-S1 is identical to the T5-S, but has a figured maple soundboard instead of spruce, creating a slightly brighter tone overall than the T5-S. The T5-S1 has a completely hollow body with f-holes. It has an active soundboard like in a fully acoustic guitar. The soundboard is a flat piece of figured maple braced into an slight arch, but the T5-S1 is not an archtop guitar. It has a tone is more like a flat-top acoustic. The T5 models use the innovative T-Lock™ single bolt neck joint.

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Specifications:

ModelImageBindingFinish colorsFinish effectsNumber of stringsScale length
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
white bindingblack finish, blue finish, brown finish, natural finish, red finishgloss finish, sunburst finish, transparent finish6 strings24.875 inches scale length
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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ModelBody back materialBody depthBody lengthBody shape featuresBody sides materialBody styleBody top materialBody widthHollow bodySoundhole
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
sapele body back2.35 inches body depth20 inches body lengthsingle cutawaysapele body sidesthin bodykoa body top16 inches wide bodyhollow bodydiamond shaped soundhole
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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ModelBridge pinsHardware color
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
ebony bridge pinsgold hardware
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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ModelFingerboard materialFingerboard position markers
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
ebony fingerboardspires fingerboard position markers
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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ModelNeck jointNeck materialNeck widthNumber of fretsNutTuner layout
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
set necksapele neck1.69 inches wide at nut21 fretbone nutthree-each-side
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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ModelPickups configuration
TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM
2005
2 humbucker pickups, internal microphone
TAYLOR T5-S
2005
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TAYLOR T5-S1
2005
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