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Brand New Buendia OM Cutaway, Brazilian Rosewood/Alpine Moon Spruce
Our latest client commission from Leo Buendia is an instrument of inspiration. Leo’s fit and finish are flawless, as is the voice of this OM: exquisitely precise from bass to treble. Gorgeous, gorgeous old-growth Brazilian Rosewood back and sides were paired with a pale Swiss Alpine Moonspruce top and Curly Koa bindings. Honduran Mahogany one-piece neck with a glass-smooth C profile; BRW bridge and headplate; EVO frets for longevity; custom white Hoffee case for safety. This OM Cutaway comes in under five pounds to boot.
We love collaborating with both you and our builders to bring about a bespoke work of functional art—give us a shout when you’re ready for yours.Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, somogyi, handmade, fingerpicking, hoffee
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Moonspruce, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2017 Buendia Jumbo, Brazilian Rosewood/Adirondack Spruce
If Paul Heumiller commissions a build for himself, you know the luthier has some serious chops. This Buendia Jumbo is proof of Leo’s talent. Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, french polished Adirondack Spruce top (from Randy Lucas himself), green-dyed Maple Burl rosette–this is just the start. The neck is carved from Indian Rosewood, and has a 12-fret neck join to marry warmth to Leo’s Jumbo body. Of course Paul also requested a multiscale fretboard (26.25″ to 25.5″) and a Florentine Cutaway to keep all those slant frets accessible. The bass response is expansive, but crisply defined. That clarity pairs well with a smooth upper register, and an articulate midrange for fingerstyle heaven.
Leo Buendia’s guitars are inspiration carved from wood and steel. Of instruments of this calibre, there are but a few. This one has come up for sale, and we can’t recommend it highly enough!
Other keywords: leonardo buendia, jumbo cutaway, brw, addie, addie spruce, red spruce, somogyi, lutherie
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in - 26.25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian 
Brand New Buendia Jumbo 12 String, Brazilian Rosewood/Adirondack Spruce
Leo Buendia’s first 12 String! It’s even better than we expected—and our expectations were quite high. Leo used his Jumbo body with a 14-fret neck to really harness the strength and power of a 12 String. Primo Brazilian Rosewood back and sides pairs with Adirondack Spruce for added projection, Rosewood neck for sustain, and dyed burl appointments in Leo’s refined style.
We love working with our clients and our builders to bring about such world class instruments as this Buendia 12-String Jumbo. Are you ready to commission your own build? We’re more than happy to help make it happen! In the meantime, this powerhouse 12-String Buendia is ready to go today.Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, somogyi, gotoh, handmade, fingerpicking, 12-string, adriondack, brazilain, hoffee
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.25 in Nut Width 1.85 in String Spacing 2.313 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian 
Brand New Buendia OM, Pale Moon Ebony/Swiss Alpine Moonspruce
Brand new Buendia! This is an OM for the ages. Sweet trebles, powerful and articulate bass, and smoothly balanced in between. Pale Moon Ebony—as premium a tonewood as any—for the back and sides (and headplate) is paired with a Swiss Alpine Moonspruce top, hand carved knotted rosette, and a French Polish finish for a maximally resonant build.
It’s really something to behold, this Buendia. The 25 inch scale fattens up the trebles, and Leo picked out a beautiful set of Rodgers tuners to bring it all together.Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, somogyi, handmade, fingerpicking, hoffee
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Moonspruce, Ebony - Pale Moon 
2017 Buendia OM Cutaway, African Blackwood/Swiss Alpine Spruce
Inspiration made of out wood and steel. This 2017 Buendia OM Cutaway is a dream-come-true kind of guitar: African Blackwood back and sides, Swiss Alpine Spruce on top, exquisite string-to-string balance, sweetly easy playability; an effortless guitar. We simply love Leo’s work! This OM is well balanced to a fault, with a well-tempered bass response and liquid trebles. Brazilian Rosewood bridge, K&K Pure Mini pickup, and a Hoffee flight case round it all out.
Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, somogyi, schaller, handmade, fingerpicking
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Swiss, Blackwood - African 
2019 Buendia Modified Dreadnought, Brazilian Rosewood/Moonspruce
Leo Buendia is at the top of his game, and the top of our list of favorite builders—this 2019 Modified Dreadnought is top of the line. Leo’s finest Brazilian Rosewood sets are a step below the BRW here, and on top you’ll find creamy Moonspruce and one of Leo’s painstakingly rendered chip carved rosettes (and a matching endgraft). Short scale, 14 frets to the neck, and a Florentine Cutaway with a slick setup for effortless playability. The voice is rich, oh so rich. With power to spare. Fingerstyle royalty. This Buendia Mod D is the sort of guitar that even bad notes sound good.
Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, somogyi, MD, gotoh, handmade, fingerpicking, hoffee
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.9 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Moonspruce, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Brand New Buendia OM Cutaway, The Tree Mahogany/Adirondack Spruce
We’ll let the video and photos speak for themselves this time. Our latest custom OM Cutaway commission from Leo Buendia is a feat of lutherie at the highest level. One piece The Tree Mahogany back and sides, Adirondack Spruce top, and Leo’s painstakingly handcarved rosette, endgraft, and headstock inlays come together for incredible elegance, clarity, and balance. A body wedge and short scale make for easy playability, French Polish finish keeps everything as resonant as possible, and the flawless fit and finish make for a perfect instrument.
This is a testament to what it’s possible with a master at the helm, and masterwork materials at hand. Want one for yourself? Give us a shout!
Other keywords: lutherie, luthier, ervin somogyi, somogyi, leonardo buendia, fingerstyle, OM, mahagony, adriondack, custom guitar, bespoke guitar, custom build
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.68 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Mahogany - The Tree 
2017 Buendia OM, Madagascar Rosewood/German Spruce
Everything about this guitar feels natural and intimate. Practically new, this 2017 Buendia has virtually no play wear, boasts chocolatey Madagascar Rosewood back and sides with German Spruce on top, and Leo’s art deco style headstock for an elegant capstone. The 25 inch scale is easy on the hands, and Leo’s Honduran Mahogany neck is carved with a slightly shallow C profile that fit everyone who picked up this OM for a demo.
The voice is classic Buendia: smooth bass response, great string-to-string balance, and that sweet spot between warmth and clarity that makes for rich, defined notes. Additionally, this OM is outfitted with a ruddy Amazon Rosewood bridge, nitrocellulose finish, and Hoffee flight case for maximum protection.
Leo’s guitars don’t come up for sale too often; this is not one to miss.Other keywords: ervin somogyi, somogyi, fingerstyle, finger style, fingerpicking, orchestra model maddie rosewood, mahagony, leonardo buendia, oakland
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.1875 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Madagascar 
2017 Buendia OMC, Brazilian Rosewood/German Spruce
This 2017 Buendia OMC is practically new, and practically heaven. Leo’s supply of Brazilian Rosewood must have some pretty dramatic players, see exhibit A: #026 with brick-red hues and wild figure toward the edges of the lower bout. Tight-grained German Spruce on top with an Ebony-and-Burl rosette. Trimmed out in Ebony with Maple purflings, Florentine Cutaway, and Gotoh 510 cosmo black tuners—this guitar wins the beauty pageant every time. Take it across the hall to the music contest, and it’ll take first place there too.
Leo’s bass response has a smooth, rolling flavor, and pairs well with the other registers. This is a fingerstyle guitar through and through. The setup lets you dig in as needed, but even a delicate attack renders great projection and sustain. There are enough overtones in the treble strings alone to fill the sonic space, but there’s enough body in the guitar’s fundamental response that the overtones decorate, rather than dominate, the voice. It’s like even flubbed notes sound good.
Our Buendias are selling faster than Leo can make them; snag this one now while you still can.
Other keywords: leonardo buendia, somogyi, ervin somogyi, lutherie, luthier, brazilain, dadgad
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.125 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
New Buendia OMC Brazilian/German
If Leo Buendia is the future, then this guitar is the first step along a reverent, beautiful road. His 2016 OM Cutaway is fresh from the bench and arrived like most guitars do: wrapped in layer upon layer of cardboard. When we cut away the tape and the packing foam, we found one of the most beautiful, resonant guitars this shop has ever seen cocooned in a black-and-gold Hoffee hardshell case. We all agreed that this guitar was special–Leo’s work is astounding–but the instant Paul put finger to string, we knew something was different. The air is charged with a mesmerizing force: the bass string trembles; the German Spruce top shimmers in the light, its voice balanced as a dancer on the ball of her foot. Brazilian Rosewood from a luthier’s daydream has here been shaped into a creature whose richness is crushed purple velvet, and that hardly begins to encapsulate the depth and range of Buendia’s OM Cutaway model. The low-end is comprehensive, absorbing, respectfully balanced with the other registers, so the trebles can ring clean and strong. This instrument speaks through you, rather than the other way around, and the fit and finish are actually flawless–from Maple purfling miters to silky Nitrocellulose Lacquer. This guitar is what every fingerstylist is searching for, with its pianistic separation, resounding depths, and its ability to fill a room with myriad tones, each of them jewels.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Brand New Buendia Jumbo Cutaway, Brazilian Rosewood/German Spruce
Brand spankin’ new from Leo Buendia’s Oakland shop, this 2017 Buendia Jumbo has the kind of Brazilian Rosewood and German Spruce that you’d sell your first child for. And in Leo’s hands, the glassy, rich, dynamic potential of these fine woods has been fully realized–this Jumbo is a lap piano alll by itself! We collaborated with Leo on this build for one of our longtime clients and friends. He wanted a fingerstyle guitar that had smooth, well-defined basses and trebles that cut well. Playing in altered tunings, and playinng comfortably, was a necessity. On all these fronts, and more, Buendia has delivered!
The custom neck profile is silk-smooth and fast, the body features a wedge design to be easy on the right shoulder, and Leo installed EVO frets for longevity, demarcated by his gorgeous “Dice” fret markers. Even the Brazilian Rosewood bridge is beautiful. It was wonderful to see this build through, and to know that it’s found a home with a satisfied customer. Excited for the next one!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.25 in Nut Width 1.78 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2006 Burchette Grand Soloist Quilted Mahogany/Spruce
Gray Burchette is a custom luthier who builds responsive guitars with a preloaded top, 13 fret neck which puts the bridge in the sweet spot, a laminated neck and a Kasha inspired impedance matching bridge to delivery the string energy across the top. This Grand Soloist has a fresh modern look and a sound that is poignant, brilliant and articulate. The fallaway cutaway gives it style and gives the player full access to the dusty end of the fingerboard. The neck is satin finish for a great feel. This one is a chameleon that can go from fingerstyle to strumming as quick as the notes fire off the top.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce, Mahogany 
2005 Burguet ABF Mixta Cutaway Madagascar/Spruce
Here we a fantastically versatile 2005 Burguet ABF Mixta Cutaway in Madagascar Rosewood and Spruce. If you are in need of an instrument to play Flamenco or Classical music, we think this Burguet will take care of your needs handsomely. With slightly more sustain and complexity of tone than the standard Flamenco guitar and the comfortable cutaway we find this to be an excellent all around guitar. As a matter of fact every style of music we played on it, from Bossa Nova to Flamenco, sounded great.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 25.59 in Nut Width 2 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Madagascar 
2019 Bastien Burlot Alkemia Chartres, Indian Rosewood/Engelmann Spruce
Bastien Burlot has been a staple of French lutherie for years, having built guitars for such giants as Thomas Viloteau and the late Roland Dyens, cultivating a unique voice that combines the power and presence of modern styles with the warmth and elegance of tradition for a simultaneously fresh, and timeless, flavor. Recently, Burlot launched a new project that ties these two ideas even more snugly: the Alkemia Series. These Classicals are inspired by the most famous cathedrals in France, with the first in this series being the Alkemia Chartres Cathedral (found about an hour outside of Paris). The tightly patterned mosaic rosette is modeled directly after the stained glass windows of the church, and inside the guitar the label features a labyrinth in homage to the floor of the cathedral’s nave. Here pilgrims have gathered for hundreds of years to walk the labyrinth in contemplation.
Here’s an additional video with Andy Jurik playing the lovely “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” (J.S. Bach) on this Burlot Classical: https://youtu.be/3vq-Wdupyek
Other keywords: classical guitar, classical, nylon string, luthier, lutherie, fingerstyle, marquetry, handmade, french polished, steve newbrough, andy jurik, hiscox, 118
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.6 in Nut Width 2 in String Spacing 2.27 in Woods Spruce - Engelmann, Rosewood - Indian 
2012 Buscarino Virtuoso, Master Grade Big Leaf Flame Maple/Master Grade Carpathian Spruce
Buscarino Virtuoso from 2012: Big Leaf Maple and Master Grade Carpathian Spruce. Wow, what a special creation we have here. Featuring a stunning burst finish and Art Nouveau inlays, this guitar is as decadent as it is sonorous—a rare combination that coincides beautifully. Incredible for nearly any application, it would be hard for a guitar enthusiast of any persuasion or background not to feel somewhat enamored by this jazz box, which, quite frankly, can do so much more. Look and listen for yourself, folks—this is truly a masterpiece from John Buscarino
Other keywords/misspellings: Luthier, lutherie, bespoke, nc,
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.125 in Woods Spruce - Carpathian, Maple - Bigleaf