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 CUSTOMThe 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. | |
TAYLOR T5-SThe 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. | |
TAYLOR T5-S1Taylor 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. |
Specifications:
Model | Image | Binding | Finish colors | Finish effects | Number of strings | Scale length |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | white binding | black finish, blue finish, brown finish, natural finish, red finish | gloss finish, sunburst finish, transparent finish | 6 strings | 24.875 inches scale length | |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - | - | - | - | - | |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - | - | - | - | - |
Model | Body back material | Body depth | Body length | Body shape features | Body sides material | Body style | Body top material | Body width | Hollow body | Soundhole |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | sapele body back | 2.35 inches body depth | 20 inches body length | single cutaway | sapele body sides | thin body | koa body top | 16 inches wide body | hollow body | diamond shaped soundhole |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Model | Bridge pins | Hardware color |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | ebony bridge pins | gold hardware |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - | - |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - | - |
Model | Fingerboard material | Fingerboard position markers |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | ebony fingerboard | spires fingerboard position markers |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - | - |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - | - |
Model | Neck joint | Neck material | Neck width | Number of frets | Nut | Tuner layout |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | set neck | sapele neck | 1.69 inches wide at nut | 21 fret | bone nut | three-each-side |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Model | Pickups configuration |
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TAYLOR T5 CUSTOM 2005 | 2 humbucker pickups, internal microphone |
TAYLOR T5-S 2005 | - |
TAYLOR T5-S1 2005 | - |