Taylor Next-Gen 812ce, Natural

Full Description

Premium rosewood and spruce tone

The combination of a spruce top and rosewood back and sides gives the Next-Gen 812ce a bold, articulate, and harmonically rich voice. Spruce provides exceptional clarity, dynamic range, and responsiveness, allowing the guitar to react beautifully to both delicate fingerstyle passages and more aggressive strumming. Rosewood complements this with deep lows, sparkling highs, and complex overtones that add impressive depth and dimension to every note. Together these tonewoods create a balanced and highly expressive acoustic character that excels across numerous musical styles while maintaining superb articulation and tonal detail.

Scalloped V-Class bracing

Taylor’s scalloped V-Class bracing architecture enhances the movement of the soundboard to increase warmth, sustain, projection, and harmonic richness. Open chords bloom naturally with impressive resonance while individual notes remain focused and balanced across the fretboard. This advanced bracing design also improves note-to-note consistency, making the 812ce feel lively, responsive, and highly musical, however you play. Whether performing intricate fingerpicked arrangements or strummed rhythm work, the guitar responds with exceptional clarity and depth.

Action Control Neck innovation

The Action Control Neck system improves both tonal transfer and long-term setup convenience. Its long-tenon neck joint strengthens the connection between neck and body, helping increase sustain and overall resonance while delivering a more connected acoustic response. Taylor’s shimless neck adjustment design allows quick and precise string-height changes through the soundhole using a simple bolt adjustment, making future setup tweaks significantly easier and more accurate. This innovation helps maintain comfortable playability across changing climates and touring conditions.

Claria pickup system

The Next-Gen 812ce features Taylor’s Claria pickup system for clear natural amplified acoustic tone in both live and studio environments. Combining a redesigned undersaddle piezo pickup with a proprietary preamp, Claria captures the guitar’s warmth, dynamics, and harmonic detail with impressive realism and balance. Soundhole-mounted controls for volume, tone, and mid contour allow players to shape their amplified sound quickly and intuitively, from vintage warmth to detailed modern acoustic clarity. Developed with input from artists and live engineers, the Claria system delivers reliable plug-and-play performance while preserving the expressive character of the guitar’s natural voice.

Specifications

• Product Name: Taylor Next-Gen 812ce, Natural
• Product Code: A80600111840007A000

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Concert
• Top Material: Spruce
• Back & Sides: Rosewood
• Bracing: Scalloped V-Class Bracing
• Body Finish: Natural Gloss
• Binding: Maple
• Top Purfling: Black/Maple
• Rosette: Single-Ring Green Abalone
• Back Strip: Maple
• Pickguard: Indian Rosewood

Neck & Fretboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fretboard Material: Crelicam Ebony
• Scale Length: 24-7/8"
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Neck System: Action Control Neck
• Fretboard Purfling: Maple
• Peghead Purfling: Maple
• Fingerboard Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Element
• Peghead Inlays: Mother-of-Pearl Element

Hardware & Electronics

• Pickup System: Claria Pickup System
• Controls: Volume, Mid-Contour, Tone
• Tuning Machines: Smoked Nickel
• Bridge Pins: Ebony with Green Abalone Dots