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Builder's Edition 324ce
6-String | Tropical Mahogany Top | Urban Ash Back and Sides | Tropical Mahogany Neck | West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard | Expression System® 2 Electronics | Beveled Cutaway | Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown Case
Series: 300
UPC: #00887766105510
$
2,999USD
Responsibly Sourced Materials
Deluxe Hardshell Case Included
Protective and durable Deluxe Hardshell Case included at no extra charge.
Lifetime Warranty with Registration
Limited Lifetime Warranty (U.S./Canada) or Extended Warranty (Details)
Factory Expert Service & Support
Responsive customer service from factory experts trained to help you get the most out of your guitar.
- Designed for ultimate playing comfort and feel
- Solid, responsibly sourced Urban Ash back and sides
- Solid mahogany top offers warmth and balance
- V-Class bracing enhances volume and sustain
- Includes ES2 pickup and deluxe hardshell case
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Overview
Builder's Edition 324ce
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Crafted for the ultimate playing experience, the Builder's Edition 324ce combines signature Taylor playability and comfort with the rich tonal character of our responsibly sourced Urban Ash tonewood. Originating from Shamel ash trees in need of removal from cities and municipal areas, Urban Ash offers a response akin to high-grade mahogany: warm and woody with a strong focus on the fundamental note and minimal overtones. The solid mahogany top adds a bit of natural compression to help create remarkable tonal balance across the frequency spectrum. For comfort, this Grand Auditorium model sports a beveled armrest and cutaway, chamfered edges, and our Silent Satin finish to reduce incidental noise. It ships with a deluxe brown hardshell case.
Editor's Pick Award
The Builder’s Edition 324ce is a brunette beauty decked out in various shades of brown, with a Tobacco Kona Burst on top. The whole instrument is dark and handsome, like a fine Cuban cigar transformed into a fine music-making machine.
Editor's Pick Award
The craftsmanship and factory setup are impeccable. How Taylor manages to make each and every instrument feel so consistently spot-on across its many designs is a modern mystery.
Platinum Award
Dubbed 'Urban Ash' to draw attention to the idea of using reclaimed and salvaged city trees, and for its characteristic tonal properties as a future tonewood, Powers created the Taylor Guitars Builder’s Edition 324ce, an inspired eco-conscious model that sounds as beautiful as it looks.
Platinum Award
The Builder’s Edition 324ce is a seductively fetching acoustic, mostly because its strikingly dark tobacco kona burst finish, as well as all the sleek contours of its chamfered body and fretboard edges, and beveled armrest and cutaway, are flat-out captivating.
Editor's Pick Award
The 324ce’s playability is sheer pleasure and versatility. Fingerpicking comes as readily as plectrum strumming, and chords come together as willingly as notes in single strokes
Platinum Award
But you’re probably wondering what “Urban Ash” sounds like! Well, it’s reminiscent of good mahogany that radiates a crisp top end and a taut bass, but its sonic strength is that it dutifully serves up a warm, sweetened midrange with a clear, bell-like ring.
Platinum Award
Whether you strum hard or pick softly, it tends to stay within that middle register, and its euphonious voice is so detailed that I sometimes found myself leaning over the soundhole to listen from different angles because I couldn’t believe an acoustic could sound so three-dimensional...
Platinum Award
...the Builder’s Edition 324ce was designed for working-class musicians in mind, and while it’s not inexpensive, it’s what I’d like to consider the base model of a luxury vehicle that will last a lifetime.
“It is reassuring to note that a human armed with a chisel and old-fashioned ingenuity is capable of making waves—waves of both surf and sound, perhaps the biggest revolution in acoustic guitar architecture since the dawn of X-Bracing.”
FEATURES
Urban Ash
Sourced from city trees in need of removal, Urban Ash produces midrange power and balance comparable to Honduran mahogany.
Expression System® 2
The Expression System® 2 captures more of a guitar’s dynamic properties using a breakthrough behind-the-saddle design.
Beveled Cutaway
Our beveled cutaway design provides a more player-friendly feel for guitarists who utilize every inch of the fretboard. It features a compound design with a smoothened edge along the corner of the body between the end of the cutaway and the neck heel, providing a more comfortable feel for the fretting hand.
V-Class Bracing
Our patented V-Class bracing is a revolutionary new pattern — a new sonic engine — that marks a major shift away from traditional steel-string bracing patterns.
Highlights
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Scale Length 25-1/2"
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Bracing V-Class Bracing
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Pickguard None
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Tuners Gotoh
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Strings Phosphor Bronze Light
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Body Width 16"
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Nut & Saddle Tusq Nut, Micarta Saddle
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Truss Rod Cover West African Crelicam Ebony
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Number of Frets 20
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Case Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Brown
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Body Length 20"
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Body Depth 4 5/8"
* Models are subject to change without notice.