The Taylor 512ce Grand Concert 12-fret acoustic-electric guitar introduces one of Taylor’s newest tonewoods—red ironbark. Master builder Andy Powers was blown away with the acoustic properties of red ironbark. Sourced in Southern California through Taylor’s urban wood initiative, red ironbark has the sonic richness of Indian rosewood, combined with the density and hardness of ebony, to push the sound to another level. Paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top and Taylor’s V-Class bracing, the sound of this Taylor 500 Series guitar is both muscular and sweet, with piano-like fidelity and strength across the entire frequency spectrum. The tone is as if the notes jump out of the guitar with a natural amplifying effect