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Add to Compare2006 Buscarino Mira Ash/Birdseye Maple
John Buscarino’s Mira solid-body electric boasts top-of-the-line components, select-grade woods and John’s fanatical attention to detail. You’ve got to check out this bird’s eye maple neck yourself — striking! The Mira comes with three of John’s finest custom pickups. The result is a guitar with voices for your every genre — jazz, rock, funk… whatever! Pickup-wise, there’s a high-output Alnico 5 in the rear, one Alnico 3 in the middle (with the coils facing each other in the center for a fat single coil sound), and one Alnico 3 in the front with series parallel wiring and a push pull pot to go from a warm jazz sound to a brighter single-coil sound. Controlling all this power is a five-position switch. It’s a fantastic setup guaranteed to get nearly ANY sound you need out of an electric guitar!
Add to Compare2009 Buscarino Starlight Nylon String Mahogany/Maple
For all of you crossover players out there, this is a beautiful piece of work by John Buscarino. It’s his nylon-strung Starlight model, and it’s every bit as lovely to play as it is to look at. John really hit a home run with this design. We’ve played a lot of hybrid classical-electrics, and this is as good as they come. Great playability, strikingly handsome looks, and a sweet tone that would do Antonio Carlos Jobim proud.
Add to Compare1999 Buscarino Cabaret Flamed Maple/Spruce
John Buscarino’s Cabaret model is one of the most popular Jazz Nylon crossover guitars on the market. He employs a carved arched back in combination with a flat top for power clarity and punch. This Cabaret is crafted from stunning flamed Maple and adorned with a Snakewood Bridge and red perflings. It’s been upgraded with an L.R. Baggs Hex pickup and RT preamp with hidden volume and tone inside the soundhole. It also has Gilbert tuners so this is really setup for the serious player or gigging musician. The neck is slightly wider on this one so it will please the classical player as much as the Jazz player.
Add to CompareNew Buscarino Cabaret Indian/German
The Buscarino Cabaret design is perhaps the finest Nylon crossover we know of. The carved arched back design make for a voice that excels at Jazz, Brazilian and many other crossover genres. This beauty was custom made for a lucky customer but call us and we’ll help you get your very own.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.59 in Nut Width 1.97 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to CompareBuscarino Starlight Nylon String Acoustic Electric Mahogany/Quilted Maple
John Buscarino’s new Starlight model is designed for the gigging nylon string player. It’s thin body is hollow but with a solid tree beneath the bridge and a B-Band pickup installed so it can be played at volume with clear tone and no feedback. John built this one for us and topped it with a Master Grade Quilted Maple top that is just stunning. It is beautifully simple with gorgeous details such as the Ebony knobs and Abalone trimmed tie block on a Snakewood Bridge. The 50mm nut and 57mm spacing allow for a multitude of styles from Jazz to Brazilian to Classical. Now you can have a hassle free gigging guitar with Buscarino quality.
Add to Compare19921993 Buscarino Telstar Basswood/None
John Buscarino is a premier Luthier well known for creating some of the very finest archtops, electrics and nylon strings. Here we have a custom Telestar from 1992/3 and man is it a cool guitar. It features a satin Maple neck with a rosewood board on a slim, solid Tele style body and pair of active EMG pickups that really sound amazing. It was easy for us to get Robben Ford like tones out of this guitar, the midrange is strong and it’s easy to put just on the verge of feedback for a very vocal sort of tone. It plays like a dream and has been kept in perfect condition by it’s only owner.
Add to Compare2005 Buscarino Jazz Strat Swamp Ash/Swamp Ash
The Jazz Strat was created by John Buscarino to the discriminating player who prefers a solid body sound and feel but stills seeks a clean and pure tone and the perfect playability that all Buscarino’s share. You immediately know this is a fine handmade guitar lightyears ahead of a factory strat, the thick ebony fingerboard, stainless steel frets and hand shaped neck heel and body contour give the feel of quality. The Swamp Ash body pulls all the tone from the 2 single coil and 1 humbucking pickups for an array of tonal possibilities. Even distorted this guitar sounds beautiful and musical. If you’ve been craving a top-shelf electric guitar properly suited for Jazz, blues and even rock, this is your Buscarino.
Add to Compare2006 Buscarino Virtuoso Big Leaf Maple/European
The Virtuoso model is John Buscarino’s Masterpiece design. This is the very model that exemplifies what John does as a luthier. Only the absolute finest materials are chosen including Flamed Big Leaf Maple and Burled woods. Only the most intricate details are employed including the mother-of-pearl ‘Virtuoso’ banner and delicate fine line purflings. This one also included custom soundport cut into the side bout as well. One minute with this guitar in your hands and you understand why George Benson, Gene Bertoncini, Steve Morse and so many other top players have selected John Buscarino to craft the guitars that make there music. This Virtuoso comes to us from it’s original owner in like-new condition. The acoustic voice is alive and rich and plugged-in it’s a knock-out. Truly a Dream from John Buscarino.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.81 in String Spacing 2.13 in Woods Spruce - European, Maple - Bigleaf
John is one of the few luthiers working today; a solo artisan handcrafting guitars suited to each customer’s personal needs. His instruments are prized not just for the beautiful sounds they produce, but also as the cherished possessions they inevitably become. Guitar player Steve Morse considers his Buscarino guitars “treasured works of art,” as do many of John’s customers.
John is unique among today’s guitar builders in that he apprenticed with not one but two master luthiers. The first was Augustine LoPrinzi, from whom John learned the finer points of building classical guitars.
John later worked with famed archtop builder Robert Benedetto, spending years perfecting the woodworking skills that today make him a master luthier in his own right.
John has created hundreds of exquisite guitars using proven methods passed down over generations. He constantly refines these time-tested techniques, taking each to new levels of perfection in mastering the art of lutherie.