Taylor 800-Series 812ce Limited 50th Anniversary Builder’s Edition Grand Concert – Sinker Redwood Top with Indian Rosewood Back and Sides

Description

50th Anniversary CollectionCelebrating five decades of guitar-making with special, limited-edition models crafted to showcase top-tier tonewoods, exquisite appointments, exacting craftsmanship and the innovative spirit that defines Taylor Guitar’s legacy.The compact Grand Concert body style, with its shorter scale length and lap-friendly proportions, is renowned for its physical comfort and focused, articulate sound. This refined Builder’s Edition Grand Concert offers an ultra-comfortable, hand-pleasing playing experience thanks to a beveled armrest and Venetian cutaway, chamfered edges and a contoured Curve Wing bridge. Solid Indian rosewood back and sides, featuring a Kona edgeburst, pair with a sinker redwood soundboard to produce a warm, rich and balanced sound with a wide dynamic range.Sourced from old-growth logs that lay submerged for decades in California riverbeds, sinker redwood offers cedar-like soft-touch sensitivity with ample headroom for more aggressive playing styles. V-Class bracing levels up volume and sustain while ensuring more harmonic agreement between notes all the way up the slender, familiar Taylor neck. Premium 50th Anniversary appointments – Gotoh 510 antique gold tuners and gold-dotted ebony bridge pins – are complemented by an array of elegant details including an Indian rosewood pickguard, abalone rosette and Element inlays in gold-hued mother of pearl. The 50th Anniversary Builder’s Edition 812ce LTD comes outfitted with an ES2 pickup and commemorative label inside. It ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case.

Builder’s Edition refinements offer unmatched playing comfort while Indian rosewood and sinker redwood produce tonal sophistication in this V-Class-braced Grand Concert.Features:

• Indian rosewood body yields high-fidelity sonic response
• Sinker redwood combines warmth, headroom and touch sensitivity
• Compact, comfortable Grand Concert body
• V-Class bracing enhances volume, sustain and intonation
• Includes ES2 electronics and a deluxe hardshell case

Highlights:Grand Concert
A smaller-bodied guitar ideally suited for fingerstyle.Sinker Redwood
Tight grain structure and cross-grain stiffness produce a bold and brilliant response with warm overtones. Think cedar on steroids.Indian Rosewood
The tonewood superstar. Popular, traditional, and versatile, Bob Taylor puts Indian rosewood among the greatest tonewoods ever.Expression System® 2
The Expression System® 2 captures more of a guitar’s dynamic properties using a breakthrough behind-the-saddle design.Beveled Cutaway
Our beveled cutaway design provides a more player-friendly feel for guitarists who utilize every inch of the fretboard. It features a compound design with a smoothened edge along the corner of the body between the end of the cutaway and the neck heel, providing a more comfortable feel for the fretting hand. V-Class Bracing
Our patented V-Class bracing is a revolutionary new pattern — a new sonic engine — that marks a major shift away from traditional steel-string bracing patterns. Overview:

• Number of Strings
• 6 String
• Orientation
• Right Handed
• Body Shape
• Grand Concert
• Bracing System
• V-Class Bracing
• Cutaway
• Beveled Cutaway
• Color
• Kona Edgeburst Back/Sides, Natural Top
• Electronics
• Expression System® 2
• Case/Bag
• Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown

Body:

• Top Wood
• Sinker Redwood
• Back/Side Wood
• Indian Rosewood
• Rosette
• Green Abalone Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
• Back Configuration
• 2-piece No Wedge
• Body Binding
• No Binding; Chamfered Edges
• Armrest
• Beveled Neo-tropical Mahogany
• Top Finish
• Gloss
• Back/Side Finish
• Gloss

Neck:

• Neck Wood
• Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Fretboard Wood
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Profile
• Standard Carve
• Fretboard Inlay
• Gold Mother-of-Pearl Element
• Fretboard Binding
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Finish
• Satin

Peghead:

• Nut Width
• 1-3/4″
• Peghead Veneer Wood
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Scale Length
• 24-7/8″
• Peghead Inlay
• Gold Mother-of-Pearl Element
• Peghead Type
• Paddle
• Peghead Binding
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Finish
• Satin

Miscellaneous:

• Bridge
• West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle
• Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins
• Crelicam Ebony with Gold Acrylic Dot
• Strings
• D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 – .053)
• Pickguard
• Indian Rosewood
• Tuners
• Gotoh 510 Antique Gold with Antique Gold Buttons
• Strap Pin
• Black
• End Pin
• Black