World-renowned fingerstylist and longtime Taylor Guitars clinician Doyle Dykes is best known for deft picking and melodic guitar arrangements. A decade after introducing his Doyle Dykes Signature Model (DDSM) with the company, Doyle is proud to unveil a new namesake for strummers who aspire to the virtuoso�s skill and command of performance in the Doyle Deluxe (DDX) guitar.

The DDX borrows from the maple Grand Auditorium guitars that Doyle has long favored and fits alongside the company's popular 200 Series laminate acoustic/electric guitars. Featuring a Grand Auditorium shape, maple laminate back and sides and a solid Sitka spruce top, the DDX comes in black with a gloss finish. Like the DDSM, the DDX features Doyle's Chet Atkins-style fretboard inlays on the bass side. Distinctive specifications include a scale length of 25-1/2 inches (the DDSM is 24-7/8), a narrower 1-11/16-inch neck, and Doyle's signature with the word Deluxe emblazoned across the headstock. The model also comes performance-ready with Taylor ES-T pickup, an under-saddle, single-source transducer which includes an onboard preamp and the same active controls installed with the full Expression System� on other Taylor models.

�When I played it for the first time, I thought, that�s a good guitar!� shares Doyle. �The simple, elegant design is very pretty, and with the curvature of the back, it forces tone out. It definitely has a sound that�s all its own, yet at the same time is very much Taylor.�

Specs are as follows:

Size/Shape 6-String Grand Auditorium
Back & Sides Maple Laminate
Top Sitka Spruce
Soundhole Rosette Pearl Fishbone
Neck Hard Rock Maple
Fretboard Ebony
Fretboard Inlay Pearl Thumbnails
Headstock Overlay Ebony
Binding Cream
Bridge Ebony
Nut & Saddle Tusq
Tuning Machines Chrome-plated Taylor Tuners
Strings Elixir Light Gauge Strings with NANOWEB Coating
Hardware Taylor Chrome-plated
Scale Length 25 1/2 Inches
Truss Rod Adjustable
Neck Width at Nut 1 11/16 Inches
Number of Frets 20
Fretboard Radius 15 Inches
Bracing Standard II (Forward Shifted Pattern)
Finish Gloss, Black
Color Options None
Sunburst Options None
Cutaway Venetian
Electronics Taylor ES-T
Body Width 16 Inches
Body Depth 4 5/8 Inches
Body Length 20 Inches
Overall Length 41 Inches
Case Taylor Hardshell Bag