Taylor 856ce-ES2 Body Body type: Taylor Grand Symphony Cutaway: Single Cutaway Top wood: Solid Sitka Spruce Back & sides: Solid Indian Rosewood Bracing pattern: 800 Series Advanced Performance Grand Symphony Bracing with Relief Rout Body finish: Gloss 3.5 Top, Back and Sides Orientation: Right-Handed Neck Neck shape: Taylor Standard Profile Nut width: 1.87 in. (47.6 mm) Fingerboard: Genuine African Ebony Neck wood: Tropical Mahogany The essence of the Taylor playing experience lives within the rosewood/spruce 800 Series With the debut of its comprehensive redesign in 2014, master guitar designer Andy Powers took what was already Taylors flagship guitar series and deployed an array of voicing enhancements, ranging from customized bracing and wood thicknesses for each body style to the use of protein glues and ultra-thin finish, to bring out another level of musicality Together, these refinements deliver much more than the sum of their parts For everyone from pros to hobbyists, they make the playing experience more expressive, inspiring and fun