The Builder's Edition 652ce represents the "Director's cut" of options. Taylor Guitars were already the most comfortable and playable guitars on the market, so adding the beveled armrest, beveled body edge treatment, and a reshaped cutaway set this Builder's Edition 652ce even further from the pack. Taking this tone wood pairing of maple and spruce and adding all of Andy Powers Builder's Edition appointments such as an armrest, Gotoh tuners, and silent satin finishes will provide the player an instrument that can sound as mellow or forceful as a guitarist would need.
- Grand Concert body shape offers a comfortable scale length that allows less tension on the strings, making it advantageous to fingerstyle players
- Torrefied Sitka spruce provides a broad dynamic range, yielding crisp articulation and allowing for everything from aggressive strumming and flatpicking to fingerpicking
- Andy Powers revoiced the Taylor 600 Series specifically for maple, adding more bass response to maple's tone profile, preserving its linear, focused quality while offering more warmth and sustain
- V-Class bracing encourages the soundboard to vibrate in a more efficient way, providing sustain-generating rigidity along the strings while allowing both sides of the top to flex and produce greater volume
- ES2 electronics are optimized so that you'll hear the sound of your guitar, not the sound of a pickup