Pre Owned Taylor Builder's Edition 717 LP (Linda Perry) Acoustic Electric Guitar With OHSC

Where did this guitar come from?  We are lucky to count local legend Eli Pearl as a friend and customer, who happens to have been Linda's main guitarist on most of her sessions since 2013, having played on everything she's done from Dolly Parton
to Bono.  Linda has worked with and used Taylor guitars for quite some time and a little while back she designed this guitar.  They sent her 3 prototypes; this is #3.  The guitar has barely been played, and according to Eli, he only used it on a few cues for a film score.

The deeper story of this guitar was featured in a recent edition of Wood & Steel, Taylor's own magazine.  Here's the scoop:

"In conversation with Taylor Director of Artist Relations Tim Godwin one day, Perry asked if Taylor would make her a custom version of her 717e with a different pickup system, modeled after the acoustic/electric guitar (a Martin D-18e) famously played by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged concert. (The guitar had been outfitted with electric pickups and featured front-mounted tone knobs, like on a solidbody electric guitar.) Tim relayed the request to Andy Powers, who agreed to make her one. Custom features include a neck pickup designed by Andy and mounted across the soundhole, along with our behind-the-saddle ES2 pickup. David Judd from the product development team assembled and wound the pickups and configured the electronics to enable the two different pickups to work in the same circuit. He also installed the soundboard-mounted volume and tone control knobs. As a finishing detail, Perry’s initials were inlaid into the pickguard."