Description

Designed with the GRAMMY®-winning roots music icon, this customized mahogany/torrefied spruce Gold Label Grand Concert showcases refined tonal and aesthetic details that give it a musical personality all its own. Ben’s Gold Label 512e model is a highly expressive instrument capable of delicate articulation and driving rhythmic work – ideal for his nuanced fingerstyle approach.
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 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, 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 micro-adjustability 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-coloured binding and a matching rosette with black trim, a cream-coloured 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.

Features

Designed with GRAMMY-winning songwriter and guitarist Ben Harper
Torrefied spruce top yields bold projection and aged-in warmth
Mahogany back and sides serve up a woody midrange voice
Compact Grand Concert body offers a comfortable, intimate feel
Includes Claria electronics and deluxe hardshell case

Specifications

Back/Side Wood: Mahogany
Top Wood: Torrefied Sitka Spruce
Neck: Mahogany, Action Control
Fretboard: Honduran Rosewood
Nut Width: 1-3/4″
Scale Length: 24-7/8″
Bracing: Fanned V-Class
Nut: TUSQ, White
Saddle: Micarta, White
Finish: Gloss Body, Custom Shaded Edgeburst Top, Satin Neck
Electronics: Claria System
Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light
Guitar Case: Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case, « British Cocoa » Vinyl Exterior