Taylor "The Monument" 1 of 20 12-Fret 2025 Catch Event #10 Grand Concert Acoustic/Electric Guitar - Black Limba/Sinker Cypress with Hardshell Case

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This Taylor Custom Shop C12e 12-Fret Grand Concert from the 2025 Catch Event #10 — dubbed The Monument by the expert luthiers at Taylor — is a visual and tonal standout, masterfully blending exotic tonewoods and refined Art Deco elegance. Built with uncommon materials and designed with exquisite aesthetic detail, this instrument pairs solid black limba back and sides with a tight-grained sinker cypress top, reclaimed from old-growth logs submerged for decades. The result is a uniquely balanced tone that offers clear treble, warm low-end presence, and exceptional dynamic range.

Its 12-fret Grand Concert design and 24-7/8" scale length create a warm, responsive character that lends itself beautifully to fingerstyle, light strumming, and intimate solo performances. Inside, Taylor’s V-Class bracing enhances volume, sustain, and pitch accuracy. A custom shaded edgeburst coats the gloss-finished body, paired with a satin-finished neck and visually stunning window-pan shading around the cocobolo and ebony backstrip. Cocobolo also graces the body binding, heel cap, and soundhole purfling, while custom Euro Deco inlays in boxwood and cocobolo adorn the ebony fretboard and peghead. Fitted with an LR Baggs Element VTC pickup and Taylor satin black tuners with cocobolo/ebony buttons, this guitar is equally suited for stage and studio. It includes a Taylor deluxe brown hardshell case for premium protection; available now at Haggerty’s music.

Features / Specs

Body

• Body Shape: Grand Concert
• Top Wood: Sinker Cypress (Custom)
• Back & Side Wood: Solid Black Limba
• Bracing System: V-Class Bracing
• Cutaway: None
• Top Finish: Gloss with Shaded Edgeburst
• Back & Side Finish: Gloss
• Back Configuration: 2-Piece, No Wedge
• Rosette: Custom Single Ring Art Deco
• Body Binding: .070" Cocobolo
• Armrest: None

Neck

• Neck Wood: Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Profile: Standard Carve
• Scale Length: 24-7/8"
• Nut Width: 1-3/4"
• Fretboard Material: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Fretboard Inlay: Custom Euro Deco
• Fretboard Binding: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Neck Finish: Satin
• Neck Joins Body At: 12th Fret

Hardware

• Bridge: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Nut & Saddle: Black TUSQ Nut, White Micarta Saddle
• Bridge Pins: Stained Bone
• Tuners: Taylor Satin Black with Custom Hardwood Buttons
• Pickguard: None
• Strap Pin: Black
• End Pin: Black

Headstock

• Peghead Type: Paddle
• Peghead Veneer: West African Crelicam Ebony
• Peghead Inlay: Custom Euro Deco (Boxwood & Cocobolo)
• Peghead Finish: Gloss

Electronics

• Electronics: LR Baggs Element VTC

Miscellaneous

• Strings: D’Addario XS Coated Phosphor Bronze Light (.012 - .053)
• Case: Brown Taylor Deluxe Hardshell Case Included