Details
Blending a comfortable frame, rich solid-wood tone and striking aesthetics, the Ben Harper Gold Label 512e Special Edition is a fitting tribute to its namesake, a longtime Taylor player and award-winning singer-songwriter. Proving again that the Gold Label Collection offers fertile ground for collaboration, this deeper-bodied Grand Concert acoustic-electric boasts back and sides of solid mahogany topped with torrefied spruce for an enticingly warm, woody midrange voice that combines a strong fundamental focus with pleasing articulation and impressive power across the frequency range. Inside, our fanned V-Class bracing dials up greater volume, sustain and low-end presence, while the roasting process for the spruce soundboard adds a touch of aged-in sweetness and depth. Along with the compact body shape, players will appreciate the easy microadjustability of the Action Control Neck as well as the adaptability of the Claria System electronics and their intuitive soundhole-mounted controls. Visual cues add up to a bold neo-vintage character, including a Honduran rosewood fretboard and peghead veneer, cream-colored binding and a matching rosette with black trim, a cream-colored pickguard, Crest inlays, polished bronze tuning machines, and bone bridge pins. Rounding out the package is a golden-brown shaded edgeburst top developed with Ben Harper himself, capped with a gloss finish for the top, back and sides.
Specs
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Back sides
Neo-tropical Mahogany
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Binding
Cream
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Bracing
Fanned V-Class
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Bridge
Honduran Rosewood
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Electronics
Yes
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Fingerboard
Hounduran Rosewood
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Finish
Gloss
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Frets to body
14
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Neck material
Neo-Tropical Mahogany
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Nut width
1 3/4"
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Pickup type
Claria System
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Rosette
Cream/Black
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Scale length
24 7/8"
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Top material
Sitka Spruce
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Tuners
Taylor Polished Bronze with Polished Bronze Buttons
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Case type
Deluxe Hardshell
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Serial number
1206026017
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SKU
TAYBHGL512E-1206026017
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UPC
112377
