Afrigather Taylor’s redesigned 500 Collection, that includes City Ironbark, a brand-new tonewood that debuts because the again and sides of its 514ce and 512ce fashions.
The tonewood joins City Ash because the second tonewood in Taylor’s product line to come back from Taylor’s city sourcing initiative in collaboration with WestCoast Arborists, Inc. (WCA). The reimagined 500 Collection fashions function Taylor’s revolutionary, award-winning V-Class bracing system in addition to a torrefied spruce high, yielding a sound that’s strong, muscular, and candy.
City Ironbark, in any other case generally known as pink ironbark eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sideroxylon), is one among greater than 700 eucalyptus species discovered around the globe. Taylor’s partnership with West Coast Arborists permits entry to pick city bushes from Southern California — a part of a municipality’s managed public tree inhabitants — which can be designated for removing after reaching the top of their life cycle or posing a security danger to the group. Usually, these end-of-life bushes are transformed into firewood or mulch. Nevertheless, Taylor’s revolutionary partnership with WCA permits the bushes to stay on as stunning acoustic guitars.
The brand new city tonewood has a bodily density corresponding to ebony whereas additionally delivering the sonic depth and richness of Indian rosewood, however pushed to a different degree. The voicing recipe for the brand new guitars embody a torrefied (roasted) Sitka spruce high paired with Taylor’s V-Class bracing. The consequence could be described as a recent variation on the traditional spruce/rosewood sound with the assistance of Taylor’s trendy acoustic engineering, and with the guitar’s enhanced quantity and projection instantly evident, even with a lighter enjoying contact.
The appointments on the brand new 500 Collection provide a nod to the traditional heritage of Taylor’s 500 Collection, which had been beforehand mahogany guitars. The again and sides function a stain that deepens ironbark’s pure reddish and golden-brown hues, together with a evenly shaded edge burst on the physique and neck. Different particulars embody new Aerialinlays in Italian acrylic, fake tortoise shell binding and pickguard, and a single-ring abalone rosette with maple and black purfling. Each fashions embody onboard ES2 electronics and a mahogany neck with Taylor nickel tuners.
The 514ce and 512ce embody a Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case and could be discovered for $3299 at approved Taylor sellers worldwide. For extra details about the brand new fashions and the whole Taylor lineup, please go to taylorguitars.com.
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