The Taylor 512ce, Urban Ironbark/Torrefied Sitka is an electroacoustic guitar with a more compact Grand Concert body that is sure to please guitarists who prefer to play with finger technique or like to put the pick away from time to time. The guitar's all-solid body is made from heat-treated Sitka spruce, and the back and sides are made from a wood labeled Red Ironbark Eucalyptus. Red Ironbark is a premium Australian hardwood that, according to early reviews, sits sonically somewhere between rosewood and ebony.
Glued to the mahogany neck is an ebony fingerboard fitted with twenty frets and decorative position markers. The lower body cutaway (venetian cutaway) makes it easier to play even at higher fingerboard positions. Acoustic properties are enhanced by V-Class ribbing, which improves the guitar's performance in three aspects - increasing the instrument's volume, extending sustain and improving intonation.
The strings are held in the company's tuning machines and ebony fingerboard via a TusQ saddle and zero fret. The high-end workmanship is accentuated by the Tobacco Stain finish on the body and neck and traditional elements in the form of binding, rosette, imitation tortoiseshell pickguard and decorative inlay on the headstock.
The guitar is fitted with the company's high-quality electronics. The Taylor Expression System 2 uses three specially designed independent piezo pickups located behind the fingerboard. Unlike conventional pickups, they do not sense the up and down movement of the board, but the natural back and forth vibration of the fingerboard. This makes the sound much more natural, colourful and pleasing, and more responsive to the dynamics of your playing. At the same time, the new preamp makes the signal 25% stronger. Of course, feedback is eliminated and you can adjust the volume, bass and treble.
The instrument comes in a deluxe carrying case.
Specifications
- Product Colour: Tobacco Stain
- Colour: Sunburst
- Surface Treatment: Gloss
- Type: Grand Concert
- Cutaway: Yes
- Body Construction: All Solid
- Top/Face: Spruce, Solid
- Back Plate: Ironbark, Solid
- Sides/Ribs: Ironbark, Solid
- Neck: Mahogany
- Scale: 632 mm
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 44.5 mm
- Fingerboard: Ebony
- Bridge: Ebony
- Nut: TusQ
- Pickup: Yes
- Pickup Type: Piezo
- Model electronics: Taylor Expression System 2
- Controls: Volume, Bass, Treble
- Integrated Tuner: No
- Tuning Machines: Taylor
- Hardware: Nickel
- Hard Case: Yes
- Case: No
- Strings: Phosphor Bronze Light
- Country of Production: USA