George Lowden’s model O design is a big, full sounding guitar with the trademark Lowden power and brilliance. This particular guitar has a slinky action and open voice. The condition is excellent and the tone is everything you’d expect from a Lowden. Equally adept at fingerstyle or strumming and it can take hard hitting and keep giving back.

The combination of Cocobolo Rosewood and Cedar results in a guitar that is at once responsive and punchy but also full and rich. Cocobolo is regarded as one of the premiere rosewoods in use today. The cutaway F model is by far our most requested Lowden configuration and for good reason it’s extremely versatile and easy to hold for hours and hours.

Here’s a like-new Lowden in Mahogany/Cedar that offers the classic Lowden voice at an excellent price. The high notes on this guitar are particularly big and sweet. In typical Lowden fashion it’s happy being fingerpicked or strummed hard. No wonder Richard Thompson’s been playing these for years.

A lovely number from the fine Lowden team! This 2002 Lowden O-25c has been played through, broken in, and opened up–wide open. Such a lovely voice for just about every application. Indian Rosewood body with Cedar on top, and an L.R. Baggs M80 soundhole pickup.

If you had to list your favorite Bluegrass Dreadnought makers active today, we’d bet good money that Randy Lucas would be one of the highest on your list. This LD-28 that we’ve got in the shop is absolutely top of the class in terms of tone, playability, and sheer fun. Randy’s reputation has been built on years of repair and restoration, and as such his guitars are bombproof and dynamite-voiced–at the same time!This 2005 LD-28, in particular, has a tendency toward explosiveness: the low-end is crystal clear and articulate, with a low E and A string that each have great presence and are perfect for accentuating the bass lines of chords in Bluegrass accompaniment. Add to that trebles which pop like firecrackers and a middle register which is tight, controlled, and crisp, and you have an instrument which fully lives up to the title “Bluegrass Cannon.”Built with a dark-grained set of Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides, this box is beautiful to behold, and with the expertly voiced Adirondack Spruce top, the LD-28 has huge potential for projection, but doesn’t top out easily. In short, with Brazilian richness and Adirondack attack, this Dreadnought has enough acoustic force to level a room of the fiercest banjos.That said, this Dreadnought also responds easily to fingerpicking, and with a thumbpick it can broadcast Doc Watson arrangements with the best of them. Traditionally-built contemporary Dreadnoughts which play like butter are few and far between: this LD-28 is on the short list of such Dreads, for sure.

Here is a special Kenny Smith model from builder Randy Lucas. Randy is famous for his bluegrass guitars and this D-18 style Dreadnought is a cannon. It features the classic combination of Mahogany and Adirondack spruce for power and clarity. This one is excellent for both single line lead work and also for strumming the boom-chang.