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1977 Ruck Classical Brazilian/Spruce
Here we have a wonderful 1977 Robert Ruck Standard concert guitar in Brazilian Rosewood and Spruce. As you would expect the Spruce top has reached perfection and is speaking fully. This is a strong, clear and articulate Spruce top Ruck. The Brazilian Rosewood adds richness and wonderful overtones. A superb example of Ruck’s work.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 26 in Nut Width 2.06 in String Spacing 2.1900 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Brazilian 
1995 Ruck Standard Indian/Cedar
This incredible Standard Model guitar by Robert Ruck dates from 1995 and has a strikingly rich, loud tone thanks to the ability of Robert Ruck to voice his guitars for maximum energy and tone. The body is Indian Rosewood and Cedar, which combine for a warm, rich character. This Ruck guitar has top-end Gotoh Rodgers Style Tuning machines which work beautifully. Ruck’s guitars have earned their stellar reputation through their voice and superb playability and this is a great example of Robert Ruck’s guitars.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5900 in Nut Width 2.08 in String Spacing 2.2400 in Woods Cedar, Rosewood - Indian 
1996 Ruck Flamenco Cutaway Cypress/Spruce
A wonderful and rare Flamenco Cutaway guitar from Robert Ruck. The featherweight Cypress back and sides allow for a wonderful articulate, resonant tone. A great instrument for crossover styles, this guitar features a fallaway cutaway for easy access to the higher frets. This is a hard guitar to put down. It morphs well between a myriad of style from Flamenco, to classical to Jazz and Brazilian. Calton deluxe flight case included.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 25.9000 in Nut Width 2.05 in String Spacing 2.2400 in Woods Spruce, Cypress 
2002 Ruck 50 Large Body Indian/Cedar
Here’s a wonderful Ruck Large Body Classical Guitar complete with Sound Ports and upgraded Gotoh Rodgers-Style Tuners. The body is desirable combination of Indian Rosewood and Cedar for a traditional voice, but with the Ruck power. This instrument is very clear and articulate and it’s easy to pull a wide dynamic range out of it. Notes remain full and rich up the neck and the playability is superb.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5900 in Nut Width 2.08 in String Spacing 2.2400 in Woods Cedar, Rosewood - Indian 
2007 Ruck Standard Indian Rosewood/Cedar
Here we have a wonderful Ruck Concert guitar built recently and featuring the desirable combination of Indian Rosewood and Red Cedar. The design also includes the raised fingerboard and hand crafted Rodgers Tuners in Silver with Pearl buttons. The condition is excellent and the tone is majestic. It has the big, powerful voice Robert Ruck’s guitars are famous for. This classical guitar can easily fill the room with exquisitely balanced and beautiful sound. The setup is perfect and the playability is superb.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5900 in Nut Width 2.09 in String Spacing 2.2800 in Woods Cedar - Red, Rosewood - Indian 
1978 Ruck Concert Brazilian/Spruce
We are very pleased to have located this wonderfully mature Spruce top, Brazilian Rosewood Ruck Concert guitar from 1978. We can tell you without hesitation that this is a superb Ruck guitar. The Brazilian Rosewood is dark and rich with tight grain that’s getting harder and harder to find these days. The spruce top, braced in the Fleta style with 9 fan braces, has reached a warm patina and so has the voice. The Spruce is fully alive, warm and full with great power, projection and clarity as well. Anyone seeking a world class concert guitar will love this one.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 26.1400 in Nut Width 2.1700 in String Spacing 2.2400 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Rugiere Baroque Parlor Brazilian/Cedar
This little Rugiere is just a fun guitar to play. It was owned by professional player Rodrigo Rodriguez. It is rare that we see a Baroque styled guitar, and it is a treat every time we do. Tonally this Rugiere has a voice for playing fast notes with clarity. The notes fly from the carved soundhole as soon as your fingers touch the strings. It is hard not to have fun while playing this guitar – it has so much character and is effortless under hand.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.7900 in Nut Width 1.8800 in String Spacing 2.1900 in Woods Cedar, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2012 Running Dog Mini Jumbo Koa/Italian
Here we have a Running Dog Mini Jumbo in Italian Spruce and Hawaiian Koa. This guitar is well suited for fingerstyle playing. The trebles shimmer on the melody thanks in part to the Koa and the running dog voicing, while the basses are present but never competing for sonic space. Playing this running dog feels as a well thought out fingerstyle guitar should, comfortable and natural.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.3800 in Nut Width 1.8100 in String Spacing 2.2500 in Woods Spruce - Italian, Koa 
2007 Ryan Cathedral, All Koa
A tropical powerhouse—this 2007 Kevin Ryan Cathedral Grand, all koa, is an absolute behemoth of tone. Excellent projection, clarity, and depth here. Long scale and quite a large lower bout, coming in just shy of 17 inches. Figured ebony arm bevel—this thing is incredible. Large body, large voice, and ridiculously beautiful tonewoods.
Other keywords/misspellings: Luthier, lutherie, bespoke, handmade, hawaiian, fingerstyle, hardwood, jumbo, calton
2011 Ryan Abbey Grand Parlor Signature Series, African Blackwood/Sinker Redwood
Only the finest materials for Kevin Ryan’s Signature Series guitars. This 2011 Abbey Grand Parlor is the proof in the pudding: flawlessly constructed, gorgeous from tuners to tail, and boasting heirloom tonewoods. African Blackwood back and sides plus SInker Redwood top, set off by Kevin’s “diamente” appointments, plus squared off Arts and Crafts headstock and bridge. Arm bevel with acoustic flutes; venetian cutaway; all wrapped in a custom Calton flight case.
Other keywords: fingestyle, fingerpicking, parlour, abw, 731.32.67
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Sinker Redwood, Blackwood - African 
2012 Ryan Nightingale Signature Series 12-String, Brazilian Rosewood/Engelmann Spruce
Ah, such a delight. For his Signature Series, Kevin Ryan pulls out the stops to make the best possible instrument–and here we have one of the best possible 12 strings. Dramatic Brazilian Rosewood body plus Carpathian Spruce top, all of Kevin’s design innovations including the arm bevel with acoustic flutes. Extensive pearl trim throughout, even along the fingerboard and bridge–and then there are the exciting, dynamic crashing waves inlaid by Larry Robinson along the fingerboard. A work of art from two of the industry’s finest. We have the 6-string twin to this sweet dream as well, check it out here: Both were built in 2012, and come with McIntyre Feather pickups and custom Mainstage flight cases.
Other keywords: lutherie, ryan guitars, 757.212.68, fingerpicking, bespoke, brazilain, capathian,
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.406 in Woods Spruce - Engelmann, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2012 Ryan Nightingale Signature Series, Brazilian Rosewood/Carpathian Spruce
Ah, such a delight. For his Signature Series, Kevin Ryan pulls out the stops to make the best possible instrument–and this 2012 Nightingale SS is precisely that. Dramatic Brazilian Rosewood body plus Carpathian Spruce top, all of Kevin’s design innovations including the arm bevel with acoustic flutes. Extensive pearl trim throughout, even along the fingerboard and bridge–and then there are the exciting, dynamic crashing waves inlaid by Larry Robinson along the fingerboard. A work of art from two of the industry’s finest. We have the 12-string twin to this sweet dream as well, check it out here: Both come with McIntyre Feather pickups and custom Mainstage flight cases.
Other keywords: lutherie, ryan guitars, 756.211.68, fingerpicking, bespoke, brazilain, capathian,
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Carpathian, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2010 Ryan Nightingale Grand Soloist, Brazilian Rosewood/Swiss Spruce
This is a completely custom, one-of-a-kind Ryan Nightingale Grand Soloist, built in 2010 and wide awake today in 2023. Kevin Ryan crafted this guitar with a set of his finest dark Brazilian Rosewood, topped it with Swiss Spruce and added a long list of custom options. There is an arm bevel with acoustic flutes, Blue Paua Abalone top border, backstrip, rosette and headplate surround. Then to make it truly unique it has Kevin’s dragonfly inlay theme that includes two large dragonflies on the fingerboard and headplate and around the rosette as well. Furthermore the back, sides and neck have a satin finish that feels amazing to the touch. The top is gloss so all the Paua really shines. To complete the package it comes with a Calton Deluxe Flight Case to keep this treasure safe!
Other keywords: ryan guitars, fingerstyle, al petteway, 697.186.44
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Swiss, Rosewood - Brazilian 
1998 Ryan Mission Grand Concert, African Blackwood/Sitka Spruce
We’ve got another powerful offering from the golden past of Kevin Ryan’s workshop today: a custom Mission Grand Concert from 1998 in African Blackwood and Sitka Spruce. The warmth and color imparted by this dynamite pair suits the GC body perfectly for a voice at ease with flatpicked solos or lush fingerstyle arrangements. We’re talking about an extremely versatile instrument, folks, driven hard or with a gentler touch this Ryan sings!
Ringing in the rosette is something unexpected for Ryan guitars; not the usual Abalone but rare and glittering Brown Lip Pearl! In DADGAD, DADFAD, Open G or Standard, this Mission Grand Concert delivers rich bass notes and round, shimmery trebles that envelop the player. And when not in use this Ryan is supremely protected by its Calton flight case.
Here’s an additional demo of this beautiful Ryan Mission GC, played by our own Al Petteway: https://youtu.be/s6DWZgb9gUc
Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitar building, fingerpicking
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Blackwood - African 
2016 Ryan Nightingale Grand Soloist, Indian Rosewood/Cedar
Now here’s a Ryan with extra headroom for a range of attacks. This 2016 Nightingale Grand Soloist comes with Indian Rosewood back and sides, Cedar top (one which has great warmth and clarity, even for a heavier right hand), and Kevin’s suite of ergonomic and design features like the arm bevel-acoustic flutes combo, venetian cutaway, and titanium bridge pins. The voice has a strong, punchy bass and midrange to complement the classic Ryan treble sparkle, which further makes this beauty stand out to us from other Ryans. Looking for a do-it-all (and do-it-all well) flattop? The Ryan Nightingale is ready to sing.
Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, fingerstyle, kevin ryan guitars, 865.274.71
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Cedar, Rosewood - Indian