Taylor Next-Gen 312ce, Natural

Full Description

Comfortable Grand Concert feel

The Grand Concert body shape offers a highly comfortable and responsive playing experience without sacrificing projection or tonal depth. Its compact dimensions make it especially comfortable during extended playing sessions while remaining versatile enough for any style or technique. The shorter 24-7/8" scale length creates a softer string feel that makes intricate fingerstyle passages, expressive bends, and extended chord shapes easier beneath the fingers. Combined with Taylor’s refined body contours and balanced acoustic response, the Next-Gen 312ce feels intimate and articulate while still delivering impressive clarity and presence for both solo performance and ensemble settings.

Scalloped V-Class bracing

Taylor’s scalloped V-Class bracing architecture enhances the overall resonance, sustain, and tonal balance of the Next-Gen 312ce while preserving the excellent pitch accuracy that V-Class designs are known for. This advanced bracing system allows the top to move more efficiently, creating increased warmth, greater responsiveness, and richer open-string harmonics across the frequency range. Notes bloom with impressive sustain and clarity while chords remain balanced and articulate even during heavier strumming. The result is an acoustic voice that feels dynamic, expressive, and highly responsive to the player’s touch, however you choose to play it.

Action Control Neck innovation

The innovative Action Control Neck system improves both playability and long-term setup convenience. Featuring a long-tenon neck joint, the design increases tonal transfer between the neck and body for improved warmth, sustain, and resonance. The shimless adjustment system also allows quick and precise string-height changes through the soundhole using a simple bolt adjustment, eliminating the need for complex neck resets or invasive setup work. This player-friendly design makes maintaining ideal action significantly easier while ensuring the guitar continues to perform consistently across varying climates, touring conditions, and long-term use.

Claria pickup system

The Next-Gen 312ce features Taylor’s advanced Claria pickup system, developed alongside performing artists and live sound engineers for natural reliable amplified acoustic tone. Combining a redesigned undersaddle piezo pickup with a proprietary preamp, Claria captures the guitar’s dynamic acoustic character with impressive clarity and warmth. Soundhole-mounted controls for volume, tone, and mid contour allow quick shaping of the amplified voice from lo-fi warmth to modern detailed articulation depending on the performance setting. Perfect recording and performing, the Claria system delivers versatile plug-and-play acoustic performance with minimal fuss.

Specifications

• Product Name: Taylor Next-Gen 312ce, Natural
• Product Code: A308001118400030093

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Concert
• Top Material: Spruce
• Back & Sides: Sapele
• Bracing: Scalloped V-Class Bracing
• Body Finish: Medium Brown Stain Gloss
• Top Finish: Shaded Edgeburst
• Binding: Black
• Top Purfling: Black/White
• Rosette: Single-Ring White
• Pickguard: Firestripe

Neck & Fretboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fretboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Scale Length: 24-7/8"
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Neck System: Action Control Neck
• Fingerboard Inlays: Italian Acrylic Weathervane
• Peghead Inlays: Italian Acrylic Weathervane

Hardware & Electronics

• Pickup System: Claria Pickup System
• Controls: Volume, Mid-Contour, Tone
• Tuning Machines: Satin Black
• Bridge Pins: Ebony