Taylor Builder's Edition 652ce 12-String Grand Concert
Featuring even morel harmonic richness than its six-string counterpart as a result of the octave pairs, offer the comfort of a slightly smaller body and string scale length—as well as easy access to the upper frets allowed by the contoured cutaway—while the sonically transparent maple back and sides, paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, provide additional depth, projection, and sustain. Plus, Taylor’s ES2 electronics provide ample tonal control and responsiveness.

600 Series Builders Edition
Frequently used for electric guitar tops, the sonic transparency of the maple used in Taylor’s 600 series guitars makes them reflective of both the guitar design and the player’s touch. Pairing V-Class bracing with a torrefied Sitka spruce top—which provides additional depth, projection, and sustain—600 series guitars respond to a broad spectrum of tonal colors, from warm to bright, depending on the player’s nuanced attack.

Grand Concert Cutaway
With its shorter, 24 7/8-inch scale length the Taylor Grand Concert body shape favors the fingerstyle player, as well as single-note lead and solo guitar arrangements, issuing notes with precise clarity and offering easy action even on the highest frets. The model’s smaller body makes for a comfortable feel, without skimping on rich, robust tonal resonance, or valuable volume.

A unique addition to any musical arsenal, Taylor nylon-string models feature a 1 7/8-inch neck width, giving players who are used to playing steel-string acoustics an ideal balance between fret-hand comfort and adequate string spacing for fingerstyle players.

Q: Does a cutaway diminish a guitar’s tonal output?
A: Not in a discernible way. We recommend you decide based on whether you want that extra upper-fretboard range; or, if you simply have an aesthetic preference—either for a more traditional, symmetrical look of a non-cutaway, or in favor of the sleek, more modern contouring that the cutaway offers.

V-Class Bracing
The Taylor Grand Concert features Taylor’s innovative new V-Class bracing, which lets the soundboard of the guitar vibrate naturally, increasing sustain and overall cohesiveness, and generating additional volume without sacrificing sustain. This design puts the body more in tune with the strings, improving articulation and harmonic alignment, resulting in a sound that is optimally warm and seasoned, nicely blended, and full of luscious low end without being muddy.

ES2 Electronics
The Taylor Expression System 2 (ES2) delivers the latest technology in Taylor acoustic guitar amplification. The heart of the ES2 system is Taylor’s patented behind-the-saddle pickup, featuring three uniquely positioned and individually calibrated pickup sensors. The new positioning enables the piezo pickup’s crystals to respond more naturally to the guitar’s energy as it is transferred through the saddle, with three pickup sensors installed behind the saddle, through the bridge, with three tiny Allen screws that calibrate the position of the sensors in relation to the saddle. Together with Taylor’s custom-designed preamp, this ES2 system produces exceptional amplified tone and responsiveness.

General:
Brand Name: Taylor
Case Type: Hardshell Case
Hardware Color: Antique Gold
Made in: Made in the USA
Number of Strings: 12-String
Product Color: Wild Honey Burst
Series: Taylor 600 Series

Body:
Body Finish: Silent Satin
Body Material: Big Leaf Maple
Body Shape: Grand Concert
Bracing Material: Spruce
Bracing Pattern: V-Class
Purfling: Black/Maple
Rosette: Maple Single Ring
Top Material: Sitka Spruce

Neck:
Fingerboard Inlay: Mother of Pearl Scepter
Fingerboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
Frets to Body: 12
Headstock Inlay or Decal: Acrylic Logo with Scepter
Headstock Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin
Neck Joint: Taylor Neck, Bolt-On
Neck Material: Hard Rock Maple
Neck Shape: Standard Carve
Number of Frets: 18 Frets
Nut Material: TUSQ
Nut Width: 1.875"
Side Marker Inlay: Silver

Electronics:
Acoustic Electronics: ES2
Controls and Switching: Volume, Bass, Treble

Hardware:
Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
Bridge Pins: West African Crelicam Ebony
Pickguard: Tortoise
Saddle Material: Micarta
Truss Rod Cover: West African Crelicam Ebony
Tuning Machines: Gotoh 510 Antique Gold with Antique Gold Buttons