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Taylor Guitars - 514CE IB

Description

Introducing a stunning new tonewood entry from Taylor. Sourced in Southern California through Taylor's urban wood initiative, this new featured tonewood of the reimagined 500 Series is being called Urban Ironbark.

Taylor's first Grand Auditorium guitar featuring back and sides of Urban Ironbark, the 514ce delivers a sweet, muscular sound that combines rosewood's high-fidelity voice with mahogany's warm and punchy midrange and spectrum-wide sonic balance. Paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top for a played-in, mature sound and V-Class bracing for improved volume and sustain, the 514ce yields power ideal for heavy strummers along with touch sensitivity that gives it a wide dynamic range that's great for fingerstyle players. With new Aerial inlays in Italian acrylic, a single-ring abalone rosette, a subtle stain that highlights Urban Ironbark's rich red hues, a lightly shaded edgeburst and gloss-finish body, the 514ce blends traditional and contemporary visual styles. It ships with ES2 electronics and a deluxe hardshell case.

Specifications
Back/Side Wood: Urban Ironbark
Top Wood: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
Body Finish: Gloss
Bracing: V-Class bracing
Scale Length: 25-1/2"
Neck: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
Neck Finish: Satin
Fretboard: West African Crelicam Ebony
Number of Frets: 20
Nut & Saddle: Black Graphite, Micarta saddle
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Tuners: Taylor Nickel
Electronics: ES2
Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell