The Next Generation 812ce is the 800 Series Grand Concert: solid Indian rosewood back and sides with a Sitka spruce top, scalloped V-Class bracing, the Action Control Neck and the Claria Acoustic Pickup System. Taylor describes a richly textured voice with clear trebles, full lows and the overtones players go to rosewood and spruce for, with the bracing drawing out more bass and resonance.
A radius-style Indian rosewood armrest rounds off the edge of the lower bout where your arm crosses it. The 24-7/8" scale and compact body make it an easy guitar to fret and hold, and the action can be reset in seconds at the neck.
The trim is 800 Series throughout: pale maple binding, an ebony-bound fretboard with mother-of-pearl Element inlays, a green abalone rosette with a bound soundhole, a rosewood pickguard and smoked nickel tuners, in natural gloss.
For the same body and woods with 400 Series appointments and no armrest, see the Next Generation 412ce. For the Grand Auditorium version, the Next Generation 814ce.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY
Country of Origin: USA
Body Shape: Grand Concert
Cutaway: Venetian Cutaway
Bracing System: Scalloped V-Class Bracing with Relief Rout
Top Wood: Spruce
Back/Side Wood: Indian Rosewood
Rosette: Green Abalone Single Ring, Bound Sound Hole
Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge
Body Binding: Pale Non-figured Hard Rock Maple
Armrest: Radius Indian Rosewood
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: Mother-of-Pearl Element
Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
Neck Finish: Satin
Nut Width: 1-3/4"
Peghead Veneer Wood: West African Crelicam Ebony
Scale Length: 24-7/8"
Peghead Inlay: Mother-of-Pearl Element
Peghead Type: Paddle
Peghead Binding: None
Peghead Finish: Gloss
ELECTRONICS
Electronics: The Claria Acoustic Pickup System
HARDWARE
Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
Nut & Saddle: Black Tusq Nut, White Micarta Saddle
Bridge Pins: West African Ebony with Green Abalone Dots
Strings: D'Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
Pickguard: Indian Rosewood
Tuners: Taylor Smoked Nickel with Smoked Nickel Buttons
Strap Pin: Black
End Pin: Black
CASE
Case/Bag: Brown Taylor Deluxe Hard Shell Case




