Lowden Options

Features | Back & Sides | Top Woods | Soundboards | Inlay Options | Other Order Options


Click here for in stock Lowdens.
If you prefer to custom order a Lowden guitar please contact us, we can obtain a totally custom Lowden very quickly.

Features

Neck: Five piece Mahogany and Rosewood or Walnut

Neck Profiles
Nut Width
14th fret width
Profile
Standard Profile
45mm
56mm
slightly 'egg' shaped
American Profile
43mm
54mm
slightly 'egg' shaped
Special Fingerstyle
46mm
57mm
slightly 'egg' shaped

Fingerboard: Selected grade ebony

Bindings: Highly figured all soundbox bindings

Purflings: Walnut /Rosewood / Mahogany / Sycamore lines

Machineheads: Gold Schaller machineheads with ebony buttons

Finish: Your choice of my hand rubbed natural satin finish or high gloss

Soundboard bracing: Unique hand voiced George Lowden pattern

Bridge: Old growth Brazilian Rosewood

Celtic ‘L’ inlay in headstock from abalone or mother of pearl

Ebony Fingerboards and Bridges



Back & Sides
East Indian Rosewood or Mahogany (prime selected)
Figured claro walnut back and sides
Figured koa back and sides
Figured myrtle back and sides
Deeply curled maple back and sides
Special option for back and sides in the very rare old growth Brazilian rosewood
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Top Woods
Californian redwood top ( from naturally fallen trees only)
Alpine spruce or engleman top
Adirondack spruce top


Soundboards
Selected Sitka spruce soundboard
Selected Cedar soundboard


Inlay Options
‘NATURAL’ wood design which includes as standard (and in addition to the standard inlay option above) side and back all wood purflings with hand mitered joints. Both the front and back of the headstock are faced with matching figured wood overlays and fingerboard is bound in ebony and contrasting figured inner purfling
‘NATURAL’ wood design (as above) with the addition of side of heel figured
and mitered bindings and purflings
Headstock binding including hand miters in figured woods 150
Abalone soundhole rosette
Unique abalone and figured wood soundhole edge


Master Cedar soundboard with figured Tasmanian Blackwood soundhole edge and abalone rosette

Master Alpine Spruce soundboard with figured sycamore soundhole edge and abalone rosette
Unique one off design for headstock / fingerboard inlays in abalone etc
Soundboard edge in abalone

Special Order Options (Not all inclusive - please inquire if you don't see it here.)
Cutaway
Left Hand Option

Tuning Machines: Gotoh 'deluxe' model; Hand made Rodgers with Celtic engraving (incl. slotted head)

Pick up Options: Fishman Rare Earth dual system ( fitted ); Headway or Highlander full frequency system ( fitted ); L R Baggs under saddle piezo system
Luxury Cases: Carlton fibreglass flight case
Master grade woods option
12 string (any model)
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