Taylor 812ce 50th Anniversary Builder's Edition with Kona Edgeburst Back & Sides

In celebration of Taylors 50th anniversary, Taylor is pleased to release this limited, 50th anniversary Builders Edition 812ce Grand Concert electro-acoustic guitar. Perfectly embellished with Taylor’s Builder Edition refinements this 812ce is an absolute dream to play. Its chamfered edges, contoured bridge and bevelled armrest make this masterful acoustic feel effortless. Tastefully finished with Taylor’s 2024 celebratory appointments this exceptionally crafted grand concert acoustic guitar looks as good as it sounds. Featuring an all-solid wood construction consisting of Indian Rosewood back and sides along with a Sinker Redwood top as well as Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing pattern, this guitar has a warm and characterful tone. With resonant lows, sweet highs and overtones that are rich and musical this is an acoustic guitar that you’ll never want to be without.

Key Features

• Sinker Redwood: This beautiful dark tonewood offers unrivalled dynamics and touch sensitivity as well as offering a warm and rich core tone. Its sweet overtones are addictive and pleasing in every playing style.
• Indian Rosewood Back and Sides: Regarded by players and builders as one of the number one tonewoods in guitar construction, specifically for acoustic guitar back and sides. Rich and musical lows with crystal clear and powerful highs.
• Ebony Fingerboard: A premium fingerboard tonewood choice, Ebony provides a beautiful brightness to the overall tone of the instrument. A perfect complement to the richness of the rosewood back and sides.

V-Class Bracing

Taylor's revolutionary V-shaped bracing pattern allows the soundboard of the guitar to resonate and flex naturally without any of the resistance found in more traditional bracing patterns. The guitar becomes louder and fuller with increased sustain and the notes along the fingerboard intonate better and generally sound more in tune with each other. The carefully thought-out design strikes the perfect balance of enough stiffness to remain stable and the perfect amount of flex for a powerful and harmonically rich sound.

ES2

Designed with the purpose of capturing as much of the expressive and dynamic properties of an acoustic guitar as possible the Taylor ES2 system is regarded as one of the best acoustic pickup systems on the market. Reimagining the typical Piezo transducers typically found on an acoustic pickup and positioning them behind the saddle rather than underneath led to a guitar pickup that not only sounds fuller and more dynamic but also more natural and musical.

Specifications

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Concert
• Back/Side Wood: Indian Rosewood
• Top Wood: Sinker Redwood
• Body Finish: Gloss
• Rosette: abalone rosette with rosewood/maple/black purfling around a rosewood-bound soundhole
• Bracing System: V-Class

Neck

• Neck Wood: Mahogany
• Neck Profile: Standard Carve
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Scale Length: 24-7/8"
• Fingerboard Wood: Crelicam Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlays: Element fretboard and peghead inlays in gold-hued mother-of-pearl
• Nut: Tusq
• Nut Width: 1-3/4"
• Peghead Type: Paddle

Hardware

• Bridge: Crelicam Ebony
• Bridge Pins: Crelicam Ebony with Gold Acrylic Dot
• Saddle: Micarta  
• Tuners: Gotoh 510 antique Gold
• Pickguard: Indian Rosewood
• Strap Pins: Black

Miscellaneous

• Electronics: ES2
• Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light
• Case/Bag: Deluxe Hardshell case, Brown