The Taylor Custom Red Western Cedar-Red Ironbark Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric guitar offers serious musicians a premium instrument with innovative design and masterful craftsmanship. Featuring V-Class bracing and Taylor's ES2 electronics, this alluring guitar produces a balanced acoustic tone with piano-like clarity and projection when plugged in.

Premium Woods Create a Sweet, Muscular Tone
The torrefied Western red cedar top paired with figured Red Ironbark back and sides yields a tone that blends power, clarity and balance. The cedar top provides a sweet, shimmering treble, while the dense Ironbark back and sides add depth and richness, resulting in a bold, muscular sound with piano-like fidelity across the tonal spectrum
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Taylor Custom Cedar-Red Ironbark Grand Auditorium A/E Guitar Red Mahogany

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The Taylor Custom Red Western Cedar-Red Ironbark Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric guitar offers serious musicians a premium instrument with innovative design and masterful craftsmanship. Featuring V-Class bracing and Taylor's ES2 electronics, this alluring guitar produces a balanced acoustic tone with piano-like clarity and projection when plugged in.

Premium Woods Create a Sweet, Muscular Tone

The torrefied Western red cedar top paired with figured Red Ironbark back and sides yields a tone that blends power, clarity and balance. The cedar top provides a sweet, shimmering treble, while the dense Ironbark back and sides add depth and richness, resulting in a bold, muscular sound with piano-like fidelity across the tonal spectrum.

V-Class Bracing Boosts Resonance

Taylor's revolutionary V-Class bracing optimizes the guitar's acoustic response, giving you more volume, sustain and tuning stability. The bracing creates notes that ring out purely without canceling each other out, bringing the entire fingerboard into greater sonic alignment for a profoundly musical experience.

Plug In and Shape Your Tone

Taylor's ES2 pickup system lets you amplify your acoustic tone with clarity. Three uniquely positioned pickup sensors capture the nuances of the guitar's sound. Pair the ES2 with Taylor's preamp to access treble, bass and volume controls for shaping your plugged-in tone. Serious musicians will appreciate the versatility and fidelity of the ES2 when performing live or recording in the studio.

Playability and Comfort to Inspire

From the smooth ebony fingerboard and cocobolo armrest to the hand-rubbed satin finish, every detail of this guitar's construction is aimed at playability and comfort. The Grand Auditorium body is shaped to balance volume and articulation, reacting dynamically to your playing style. The mahogany neck has an oval profile for a familiar, violin-like feel in your hands.

Features:

Western red cedar top, urban ironbark back and sides
Taylor V-Class bracing
ES2 electronics with behind-the-saddle pickup
Brown deluxe hardshell case included

Specifications:

Body
Body type: Taylor grand auditorium
Cutaway: Yes - Venetian
Top wood: Western red cedar
Back and sides: Figured red ironbark
Bracing pattern: V-class bracing with relief rout
Body finish: Satin
Neck
Neck shape: Standard Taylor profile
Neck wood: Neo-tropical mahogany
Scale length: 25.5"
Nut width: 1.75" (44.5mm)
Fingerboard
Number of frets: 20
Material: Genuine West African ebony
Inlays: Hard rock maple/bloodwood fretboard inlays with a faceted design
Electronics
Pickup/preamp: Expression System 2 professional audio-grade with TaylorSense
Brand: Taylor
Configuration: Behind-the-saddle transducer with adjustable sensors
Preamp EQ: Volume, active bass and treble
Feedback filter: Onboard phase switch
Tuner: None
Hardware
Headstock overlay: Genuine West African ebony
Tuning machines: Gotoh 510 antique gold with antique gold buttons
Bridge: Genuine West African ebony
Saddle and nut: Micarta saddle; Black tusk nut
Other
Special features: Beveled bloodwood armrest, Hard rock maple/bloodwood rosette with a split diamond design, Hard rock maple peghead logo and fretboard/peghead purfling, Dark stain bone bridge pins with Australian opal red dots
Orientation: Right handed
Number of strings: 6
Case: Taylor deluxe hardshell (brown)
Accessories: None
Country of origin: USA

Shipping
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Payment
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Sales Tax
We are required to collect sales tax on all orders, except those shipped to the following states: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon.

Store Policies
If you’re not satisfied, neither are we. If for any reason you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase of a new item, simply return it in its original condition within 45 days of purchase (see exceptions below) and we’ll give you a full refund. It’s that simple. Returned items must be in original, brand-new condition, showing no signs of wear or use such as belt-buckle or pick scratches, scuffs, dings or scrapes on the instrument or collateral materials. Items must also include all original packaging, manuals, warrantees and accessories or your return may be subject to a return handling charge.

Your refund will be promptly processed upon successful evaluation of your returned item from our trained category professionals in 2-3 business days. Refunds are made for product value only, excluding shipping and handling charges. If you received Free Shipping on your order, the value of the uncharged shipping cost will be deducted from your refund.

Limitations and Exceptions
Returns of the following products must be made within 10 days of shipment - Stringed instruments priced at $1999.00 or more. The following products cannot be returned – Clearance items, Apple products, items identified as non-returnable, discontinued items, electronic software downloads, demo gear, vintage instruments, strings, reeds, computers, tubes, earbuds, earplugs, recorders, tin whistles, flutophones, "world" wind instruments, harmonicas, raw-frame speakers, drumheads, drumsticks, turntable cartridges, fog fluid, clothing/footwear, body jewelry, sheet music, cleaners, polishes and polishing cloths, software/soundware, books, CDs, DVD's, vinyl records, and videos.The following fees apply to Band & Orchestra returns - All returned woodwind and brass instruments incur a $10.00 sanitization fee. Returned bows are assessed a $4.00 restocking fee. Returned mouthpieces over $300 incur an $8.00 sanitization fee; the fee for mouthpieces under $300 is $4.00.

Should you decide to return your shipment, please follow the return steps printed on the back of your invoice and pack your return carefully to prevent damage in shipment. All returns must:

1. Include a Return Authorization Number; (Please contact us via eBay messages for an RA number)

2. Be in the original packaging complete with all collateral materials such as cases, straps, cables, care kits, certificates of authenticity, warranty cards, manuals, and any other materials that originally shipped with the instrument;

3. Be in brand-new condition, showing no signs of wear or use such as belt-buckle or pick scratches, scuffs, dings, or scrapes on the instrument or collateral materials.