Taylor 712e Limited Edition 12-Fret Acoustic Guitar | N Stuff Music

This limited edition 12-Fret model matches our short-scale Grand Concert body with visually stunning blackheart sassafras back and sides and a Sitka spruce top. The sassafras imparts a blend of low-end warmth, mahogany’s woodiness, and rosewood’s top-end sparkle, yielding a voice with impressive overall focus and projection. In addition to the 12-fret design, the guitar also features our Advanced Performance bracing, borrowed from our 800 Series. As a result of both, players can expect a slightly bolder, meatier quality to the sound, which can handle fingerstyle, picking and strumming with ease. Elegant aesthetic touches include rosewood binding, rosewood top edge trim, an abalone rosette outlined in rosewood, mother-of-pearl Heritage Diamond fretboard inlays, and a pickguard-free top. The guitar includes our Expression System 2 acoustic electronics and ships in a Taylor deluxe hardshell case. The star of this series is rare and wildly beautiful blackheart sassafras selectively sourced from Tasmania. The wood’s “blackheart” name comes from its exotic variegation, specifically the appearance of dark striping caused by fungus that forms in the heartwood of the tree. The fungus typically forms from water that drips down within the tree as a result of branches that break off during storms. Even the sets cut from the same section of a log will differ in appearance, so no two sets from this select batch are visually alike. While sassafras is normally blond in color, the...