Taylor 214ce-K Question

[tsfrance]

Around the middle of the year last year I bought a new Taylor 214ce-K.  I was looking for a 214 and I understood that the entire guitar was laminate.  Laminate was not a problem for me because I live in a low humidity area all year long.  So today I was looking at the same guitars and I see they added $100 to the price but I am also seeing Solid spruce top.  So now I am curious as to if mine from 2020 has a solid spruce top also or has a laminate top.  Either way is fine but now I am curious??  Thanks.

[TaylorGirl]

Yours would have a solid spruce top.

[Frettingflyer]

What Susie said, the 214-k should have been solid top with laminate back and sides.

[Edward]

Every guitar, from the humble Baby Taylor all the way up the food chain, has a solid top.  Taylor has never made a laminate top in any of their product lines, and this from day one, AFAIK.

Edward

[TaylorGirl]

Every guitar, from the humble Baby Taylor all the way up the food chain, has a solid top.  Taylor has never made a laminate top in any of their product lines, and this from day one, AFAIK.

Edward

Thanks for that Edward. I thought that was the case (99% sure), but I didn't want to go that far with my response to the OP. I didn't want to stick my neck out, so to speak. 

[SoCalSurf]

The Taylor 214 line is a tremendous value, and, although I have never owned the koa model, I think that makes it that much sweeter.

The 214ce was the first guitar I bought, and it led me on a years-long journey that I often attribute to how good that first guitar was for me.

Enjoy that SOLID top!

[tsfrance]

Thank you everyone!  Is it wrong for me to feel like i just put on a old pair of pants and found a $100 bill in the pocket?

[lmacmil]

Yours would have a solid spruce top.

It's all Koa including the top.

https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/224ce-k-dlx-2019#specs

[Earl]

Is it wrong for me to feel like i just put on a old pair of pants and found a $100 bill in the pocket?

No, not wrong at all.  That is a great attitude to have!  As has been said above, Taylor has never made a production guitar with a laminated top.  But many of the lower numbered models (under the 300 series) have laminated back & sides.  They have also never made a dovetail neck joint either, as Bob Taylor got his start in repairs converting dovetails into bolt-ons.

[TaylorGirl]

Yours would have a solid spruce top.

It's all Koa including the top.

https://www.taylorguitars.com/guitars/acoustic/224ce-k-dlx-2019#specs

The OP's is a 214, not a 224. So it has a solid spruce top, not a solid Koa top.