Taylor Guitars has a long history of introducing compelling new tonewood flavors to the world, and we’re as excited as ever been to debut a stunning new entry — red ironbark — as the new featured tonewood of Taylor's reimagined 500 Series. Urban Ironbark is sourced in Southern California through Taylor's urban wood initiative, after exploring and falling in love with its acoustic properties, master builder Andy Powers has paired ironbark back and sides with a torrefied spruce top and deployed a new voicing recipe — shaped by V-Class bracing — to bring another uniquely enticing tone profile to the Taylor line.
Imagine the sonic depth and richness of Indian rosewood pushed to another level. Red Ironbark’