Taylor PS14ce-Ironbark Urban Ironbark Acoustic-Electric Guitar - Tobacco

Available at Sadek Music, the Taylor PS14ce is part of Taylor’s prestigious Presentation Series, representing the pinnacle of artistry, tonewoods, and craftsmanship. This masterpiece showcases a rare and sustainable pairing of Urban Ironbark back and sides—responsibly harvested as part of Taylor’s Urban Wood Initiative—with a sinker redwood top that adds warmth, sensitivity, and dynamic response. Also known as Red Ironbark, this tonewood delivers a sound Taylor describes as a supercharged rosewood, offering rich overtones, crystal-clear articulation, and incredible depth. The PS14ce’s neck is crafted from mahogany with a Standard Carve profile, paired with a smooth 15-inch-radius ebony fingerboard for effortless playability. Equipped with Taylor’s ES2 electronics, the PS14ce ensures your nuanced tone shines both on stage and in the studio. The guitar is adorned with an heirloom-grade Presentation Series trim package, featuring intricate shell and tonewood inlays, paua/ebony binding, and exquisite purfling across the body, neck, and headstock. The Taylor PS14ce Urban Ironbark Tobacco finish is more than a guitar—it’s a statement of sustainability, craftsmanship, and unmatched sonic beauty.

Rich, resonant, and responsibly sourced tonewoods

Splitting the difference between old-growth prestige and modern sustainability, the PS14ce Urban Ironbark boasts a master-grade set of top-tier tonewoods. A pair of responsibly sourced Urban Ironbark back and sides — also known as red ironbark — provide an exceptionally harmonic-dense response that recalls the tone of rosewood with a firmer, more muscular punch. Topside, a slab of sinker redwood supported by Taylor’s cutting-edge V-Class bracing offers a subtle, dynamic, and thoroughly touch-sensitive feel that rewards even the most tempered pluck or pick with a rush of rich resonance.

V-Class bracing: prodigious volume and sustain

Bracing is the internal framework of an acoustic guitar that shapes its sound. For over a century, X-bracing has been the standard, but it comes with an inherent trade-off between volume and sustain. The guitar’s soundboard (top) is key: its flexibility drives projection, while its stiffness supports sustain. With X-bracing, increasing one usually reduces the other. Taylor’s revolutionary V-Class bracing changes everything. This innovative design allows the guitar’s top to be both stiff and flexible, delivering greater volume and longer sustain simultaneously. The top gains stiffness along the strings for improved sustain, while flexibility across the sides creates the air movement needed for powerful projection. The result is the best of both worlds. V-Class bracing also enhances intonation, producing notes that are not only louder and longer-lasting but also more in tune with one another. Experience the difference yourself with the breathtaking Taylor PS14ce Urban Ironbark, available now at Sadek Music.

Grand Auditorium: comfort, presence, and projection

Taylor’s beloved Grand Auditorium body style, featured on the PS14ce, employs the width and depth of the Dreadnought. However its waist is narrower, which gives Grand Auditorium-bodied acoustic guitars a sleeker look, with more treble zing. The PS14ce’s Grand Auditorium body shape sharpens the definition of each note, balancing out nicely with the excellent projection afforded by its V-Class top bracing. Complementing the playing comfort of the instrument’s narrow waist is its ergonomically beveled armrest, bound in the same Crelicam ebony used for the instrument’s smooth-as-glass fingerboard.

Repurposing California’s public trees, one guitar at a time

Whether its rosewood from India or ebony from Africa, America’s steel-string guitars have long utilized timbers taken from around the globe — often to the detriment of the forests and environments in which these woods grow. To improve the sustainability of their 6-strings and raise environmental awareness, Taylor launched the urban wood initiative, a program by which Taylor harvests the end-of-life trees planted around California’s streets, schools, parks, and public spaces, giving these unique tonewoods a fresh new life as a prestigious Taylor instrument.

Cutting-edge Taylor Expression System 2 electronics

For guitarists who love to play plugged in, the Taylor PS14ce Urban Ironbark comes equipped with Taylor’s advanced Expression System 2 (ES2) electronics. This groundbreaking design features a proprietary three-section pickup positioned behind the saddle, capturing the guitar’s natural tone with remarkable clarity and accuracy. The ES2 system delivers an authentic, dynamic amplified sound that truly reflects the character of your instrument. With a master volume control and dedicated high and low tone controls, you can shape your sound to perfection. Additionally, a discreet polarity switch provides essential onboard feedback suppression, making it ideal for both stage and studio use. With the Taylor PS14ce’s ES2 electronics, you get professional-level amplified performance that lets the beauty of your tonewoods and craftsmanship shine through — available now at Sadek Music.

Taylor PS14ce Urban Ironbark Features:

• Taylor Presentation series acoustic-electric guitar, representing the very peak of Taylor craftsmanship and creativity
• Sinker redwood top supported by V-Class bracing offers an exceptionally resonant response and elegant, autumnal aesthetic
• Urban Ironbark back and sides provide a harmonic-rich punch of rosewood-like richness
• Fast-playing mahogany neck in Taylor’s traditional Standard Carve
• Sleek 15-in.-radius ebony fingerboard capped with an attention-grabbing California vine shell/paua inlay that unravels across the fingerboard
• Glorious gold Gotoh 510 tuning machines impart a high-class edge and ensure lock-tight tuning stability
• Comfortable radiused armrest and deep Venetian cutaway
• Taylor’s flagship Grand Auditorium body style serves as a superb do-it-all 6-string design, from hushed fingerstyle to high-energy strumming
• 1.75-in. nut width offers more than enough room for fingerstyle players and for flatpickers and strummers
• Breathtaking paua/ebony binding inlaid into the top, back, and fingerboard is sure to garner many a glance; glorious single-ring shell rosette and bound soundhole
• Premium Presentation series paua/mother-of-pearl inlay work across the headstock, bridge, and even the Indian rosewood pickguard

Tech Specs

• String Type:Steel
• Number of Strings:6
• Left-/Right-handed:Right-handed
• Body Shape:PS14ce Grand Auditorium Urban Ironbark
• Back & Sides Wood:Solid Figured Red Ironbark Eucalyptus
• Top Wood:Solid Stripy Sinker Redwood
• Top Finish:Gloss
• Color:Tobacco
• Body Bracing:V-class Bracing
• Binding:Ebony
• Neck Wood:Neo-Tropical Mahogany
• Neck Finish:Satin
• Neck Shape:Standard Carve
• Radius:15"
• Fingerboard Material:Crelicam Ebony
• Fingerboard Inlay:California Vine
• Number of Frets:20
• Scale Length:25.5"
• Nut Width:1.75"
• Nut Material:Black Tusq
• Saddle Material:White Micarta
• Bridge Material:Crelicam Ebony
• Tuning Machines:Gotoh 510
• Electronics:Taylor ES-2 preamp
• Strings:D'Addario XS Coated Light, .012-.053
• Case/Gig Bag:Hardshell Case