Joining the growing family of master-crafted Builder’s Edition guitars, this 652ce is a 12-string for a new generation of acoustic guitarist. Built with figured Big Leaf maple for the back and sides with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, this model’s shimmering, octave-rich tone benefits from maple’s clarity and focus, offering an expressive, easily-recorded sound that will inspire players to expand their sonic palette. V-Class bracing delivers a unique boost in the 12-string configuration, adding texture and tonal bloom as notes resonate with increased sustain and power, while the guitar takes on additional punch resulting from the reversed string orientation. This 652ce is appointed to deliver a playing experience that matches its robust tone, with chamfered body and fretboard edges, a smooth Curve Wing bridge, and beveled armrest and cutaway providing a truly fluid, intimate connection between player and instrument. Like many of its Builder’s Edition counterparts, this 12-string is finished in an edgburst-hued Silent Satin sheen that reduces incidental noise for clean recordings, along with Scepter inlays in shell and mother-of-pearl for an artful, eye-catching visual character. It ships with ES2 electronics in a deluxe Taylor hardshell case.
“A bright and tight little twelve string. One cool feature is the reversed stringing style, having the lower string being first on a strum holds the fundamental note more forward. - Ian, Taylor Guitars Expert at Rudy's Music
Specs:
String Type: Steel
Number of Strings: 12
Body Shape: Grand Concert
Left-/Right-handed: Right-handed
Color: Wild Honey Burst
Finish: Silent Satin
Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides Wood: Maple
Body Bracing: V-Class
Neck Wood: Hard Rock Maple
Fingerboard Material: West African Ebony
Fingerboard Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl/Abalone Scepter
Number of Frets: 18
Scale Length: 24.87"
Tuning Machines: Gotoh
Bridge Material: Ebony
Nut/Saddle Material: Tusq/Micarta
Nut Width: 1.875"
Electronics: ES-2
Strings: Elixir Phosphor Bronze Light
Case Included: Hardshell Case
