The Ben Harper Gold Label 512e Special Edition is a meticulously crafted acoustic-electric guitar that honors the award-winning singer-songwriter and dedicated Taylor artist. This deeper-bodied Grand Concert model, part of the collaborative Gold Label Collection, delivers a powerful, woody midrange characterized by exceptional clarity and fundamental focus.
Features
- Premium Tonewoods: Features a torrefied spruce top paired with solid mahogany back and sides, offering an "aged" sweetness and warm tonal depth.
- Advanced Bracing: Equipped with fanned V-Class bracing to enhance volume, sustain, and low-end response.
- Player-Focused Design: Includes an Action Control Neck for easy adjustments and Claria System electronics with intuitive, soundhole-mounted controls for versatile amplified performance.
- Neo-Vintage Aesthetics: Styled with Honduran rosewood for the fretboard and peghead, cream-colored binding, a matching rosette, and elegant Crest inlays.
- Signature Finish: Boasts a golden-brown shaded edgeburst gloss finish, a unique color profile developed in direct collaboration with Ben Harper.
Specifications
- Shape: Grand Concert
- Back/Side Wood: Tropical Mahogany
- Top Wood: Sitka Spruce
- Electronics: The Claria Acoustic Pickup System Electronics
- Cutaway: None
- Nut & Saddle: White TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
- Neck/Heel: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
- Fretboard Wood: Honduran Rosewood
- Scale length: 24-7/8"
- Bracing: Fanned V-Class with Tonal Rout
- Pickguard: Cream/Black
- Back Configuration: 2-piece No Wedge
- Peghead Veneer: Honduran Rosewood, Black Underlay
- Case: British Cocoa Bronco Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case
- bc_product_includes: Taylor Ben Harper Gold Label 512e Guitar
- bc_product_includes: Deluxe Hardshell Case
- Manufacturer Color: Shaded Edge Burst
- Series Name: Taylor Gold Label
- Number of Strings: 6
- Body Shape: Taylor Grand Concert
- String Type: Steel
- Electronics: Yes
- Top Wood: Spruce
- Back and Sides Wood: Mahogany
- Left or Right Handed: Right
