To celebrate the new millennium, Takamine unveiled the LTD 2000 ($1,899). The background to the design of this guitar was to recreate a moment in time, in a sense to make time stand still. The layout of the intricate design around the sound hole and across the fret board is based on the constellations of Orion and the Big Dipper and how they were oriented in the Northern Hemisphere at midnight on January 2000. This acoustic-electric cutaway boasts an elaborate rosette with laser-cut inlays that depict the stellar constellations.