Here we have a Froggy Bottom Dread with serious tonewoods and simple appoinments for the player who’s seeking incredible tone with less bling. The Brazilian Rosewood set is wonderful, dark and rich with even grain. Froggy is now charging $4,000-$5,000 upgrade for Brazilian of this quality. The Adirondack top has the ultra-desirable wide grain that dread players have long coveted as it increases the responsiveness and power of an instrument. This Froggy Bottom Dread is very strong, a banjo killer, with clear, crisp trebles and deep resonant bass. If you are seeking a great sounding Dread with a mature Adirondack top, this one’s for you.

The Froggy Bottom Deluxe models always have some lovely touches. This K model is crafted from highly figured Walnut and adorned with a unique rosette and backstrip as well as a Scrimshaw heelcap. The top is a fine piece of Adirondack Spruce and this guitar is in mint condition. The tone is very strong with lots of projection, the Walnut gives it a naturally woody characteristic and the Adirondack top lends it’s brilliant highs and headroom to spare. This is a very unusual and beautiful Froggy Bottom K guitar.

From the Froggy Bottom website: “The Model H14 is built with a scale length 1/4” longer than its nearest relative (H12). The resulting increase in tension, coupled with its slightly shorter body and higher bridge placement, produces a guitar that is excellent for everything from ragtime and country blues to articulate flat-picking and strumming.” To summarize in our words this guitar is versatile with a capital ‘V’. The combination of gorgeous Koa and Engelmann spruce really works on this Froggy Bottom guitar. You can hit it hard or lay back and play sweetly it’s happy to go in either direction.

Here we have a breathtaking all Koa H-14 Deluxe from Froggy Bottom with some of the most exciting figure you’ve ever seen. The 000 sized H body is powerful, versatile and easy to hold. The Koa is framed by Curly Maple bindings and there is an abalone backstrip and a scrimshaw heelcap with beautiful images of sunflowers.

Keisuke Fujii brings another masterpiece to the table with this brand new OM-CW model. Caucasian Spruce top over Keyaki (Japanese Zelkova) back and sides, dressed with an eye for curve and line and contour that astounds; each detail executed flawlessly. The world needs more guitars like this one. Soft V profile on the neck, with a satin finish that feels like feathers in your hands; gold EVO frets; carved bridge and headstock contours.

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Fylde Guitars are among England’s finest offerings to the instrument world: today’s 2015 Falstaff has all the bass and projection to make that offering a rather loud one. With a fine-grained Indian Rosewood three-piece back and sides and Engelmann Spruce top, this guitar has a complexity of tone well-suited to both flatpicking and fingerstyle players,and is finished with a glass-smooth neck profile that is effortless to play. The multicolored marquetry found in the trim and rosette are tasteful and well-executed, and help accentuate the grain patterns across the three sections of Indian Rosewood which span the back. This is the kind of guitar which responds aggressively the more you dig into the strings; keeping up with most Dreadnoughts. This guitar comes with a Hiscox hardshell case.