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Add to CompareKlein Inspired 12 String Mahogany/Spruce
Paul Schmidt, musician, teacher, designer and author of The Art and Times of Steve Klein worked with Jason Harshbarger of Highland Strings to build this Klein inspired 12 string guitar.
It started with a Klein Spruce top, bridge and solid Brazilian Rosewood Neck. The body was bound in Holly wood which frames the Mahogany body beautifully. Paul enlisted inlay artist Larry Robinson to create a simple and artistic fretboad inlay in copper. Inset into the headstock is a fossil-like Fern carving. On the back is a bloodwood Asian character that stands for ‘awareness’, “something the world needs much more of” says Paul Schmidt.
To complete the project a hand-made wooden case was created featuring vintage latches and handle and a Jade Oroboros adorns the interior. Paul used this guitar with heavier strings tuned down to D. It has a loud and deep voice that remains beautiful at all times. Not harsh some some 12 strings can be. It plays very easily and the Rosewood neck feels amazing.
Add to Compare2008 Langejans BR-12, Brazilian Rosewood/Bearclaw Spruce
This guitar has enough presence to fill two rooms. Del Langejans’ career was characterized by so many different kinds of guitars, and his 12-strings were among some of our favorites. This BR-12 is a beauty from 2008 with a Brazilian Rosewood and Bearclaw Spruce body, Rosewood neck, and an L.R. Baggs Anthem pickup system. The well-rounded neck profile feels smooth and comfortable in hand, and with a venetian cutaway to boot, this 12-string is a smooth operator from zero fret to soundhole. Figured Koa bindings tie it all together, and this Langejans comes wrapped up in its custom Cedar Creek case.
Other keywords: Other keywords: flat picking, flatpicking, lutherie, luthier, guitarbuilding, langejans guitar, 12 string, lr baggs, 0 fret, brw
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to Compare2003 Langejans R-12 Twelve String Bearclaw/Rosewood
We see very few custom made 12 strings from independent luthiers, so we are happy to have this one for you. It is crafted by Del Langejans from Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce and has a rosewood neck as well for added sustain and warmth. This is a very easy to play 12 string, it incorporates a zero fret that allows for low action and light tension. The cutaway grants access to the dusty end and it has lovely abalone top trim, a Baggs Duet pickup system with onboard controls and gold tuners. One beautiful 12 strings that you’ll enjoy playing every day.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4 in Nut Width 2 in String Spacing 2.38 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to CompareLarrivee 12-String 45 Indian/Sitka
Here we have a wonderful vintage Larrivee 12 String guitar is from the Victoria, B.C. days of Larrivee. The workmanship is excellent and the inlay is exquisite. The body features premium Indian Rosewood and Master Grade Sitka Spruce with tons of silk. Larrivee harvests their own Sitka from their region and it is wonderful wood. This is a showpiece Larrivee guitar with custom inlays on the headstock, fingerboard and bridge as well as a top border of Abalone. The smaller body and premium top give this 12 string a warmer tone that is sweet and balanced and it plays with ease. A great 12 String guitar from Larrivee.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.6 in Nut Width 1.81 in String Spacing 2.31 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare1996 Lowden S25-12 Custom 12 String, Indian/Sitka
This is a lovely Lowden S25 12-String with custom upgrades including the Abalone rosette, gloss top and neck. Back and sides are satin. This guitar was made for recording artist Michael Card by George Lowden himself. This guitar was on the cover of one of Card’s albums. There is also a Baggs Pickup installed and it comes with the original Lowden case as well.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2021 Maestro 8-String Baritone, Koa/Adirondack Spruce
Here we’ve landed a stunning 8-String Baritone from Maestro Guitars—built in 2021 and raring to go. Gorgeous and dramatically figured Koa plus Adirondack Spruce on top for added power to the woody Koa response, and a slim neck profile plus 27 inch scale makes for an effortless playing experience. This is one baritone that practically plays itself! Additionally, it’s been dressed up with lovely MOP and Abalone appointments throughout the build, a micro arm bevel on top, and gold Gotoh tuners to ring it all in. The voice is expansive and lush, with an evenness across the registers that lets the doubled middle strings ring out with added clarity.
Here’s an audio demo with our own Al Petteway!
Other keywords: lutherie, 20121954, fingerstyle, modern guitar, adriondack, 8 string
SOLD Read moreScale Length 27 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.188 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Koa 
Add to Compare2021 Maestro 8-String Baritone, Ziricote/Adirondack Spruce
Here we’ve landed a gorgeous, like new 8-String Baritone from Maestro Guitars—built in 2021 and raring to go. Delightfully figured Ziricote back and sides pair with Adirondack Spruce on top for added power, and a slim neck profile plus 27 inch scale makes for an effortless playing experience. This is one baritone that practically plays itself! Additionally, it’s been dressed up with lovely MOP and Abalone appointments throughout the build, a micro arm bevel on top, and gold Gotoh tuners to ring it all in. The voice is expansive and lush, with an evenness across the registers that lets the doubled middle strings ring out with added clarity.
Here’s a link to an audio sample with our own Al Petteway!
Other keywords: lutherie, 20121953, fingerstyle, modern guitar, adriondack, ziracote, 8 string
SOLD Read moreScale Length 27 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.188 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Ziricote 
Add to Compare1997 Manzer 12 String, Koa/Sitka Spruce
The 12-string market just got a little brighter: we have a 1997 12-string from Linda Manzer in Koa and Sitka Spruce! The 25 5/8″ scale has easy playability and great intonation across the numerous string gauges in play here, and the added comforts of a Manzer Wedge and Venetian Cutaway make this instrument further improve that playability.
The voice is excellently balanced, and responds well to both a gentle and robust attack. Well played-in and opened up, this Manzer 12-String also comes with a B-Band UST pickup which faithfully translates all the Koa-and-Sitka colorfulness to whatever amp you’d like. Across the fretboard you’ll find on of Linda’s rare Phoenix-and-Chinese-Dragon inlays which, with the simpler Ebony bindings elsewhere, acts as a gorgeous centerpiece to this already attractive display of lutherie at its finest.
Here’s an additional demo with Al for you listening pleasure! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arDO25nV7mk
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.625 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.313 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Koa 
Add to Compare2013 Martin D12-28, Indian Rosewood/Sitka Spruce
Like new! And ready to mingle. Here we’ve landed a 2013 Martin D12-28 that’s so minty it’s still got the plastic cover on the pickguard—and it sounds fabulous. Indian Rosewood back and sides with Sitka Spruce on top and a short scale neck to warm it up a bit makes for a voice that’s enveloping and energetic. The neck is finished in satin for a silk-smooth play feel (and the setup is slinky and low to boot). White body bindings set off the creamy Spruce top and chocolate-brown Rosewood sides, with MOP position markers along the fretboard.
Other keywords: cf martin, 12 string, stika, c.f. martin, fingerstyle, double string,1689916
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.9 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.375 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare1968 Martin D12-35, Brazilian Rosewood/Sitka Spruce
Now here’s a guitar to fill the room. What a joy it is to this 1968 D12-35; it’s got enough under the hood for two guitars. 1968 was one of the last years for Brazilian Rosewood on stock instruments from Martin, and this 35-style Dread with three-piece back boasts exceptionally straight grain for the times (they’d burned through most of their best quarter-sawn stock by the late 60s, which is why you see so many Martins from this period with slab-cut BRW). Sitka Spruce on top with a 12-fret neck join and a warm amber patina to the Nitro finish. The lions share of vintage 12-strings suffer from bowed necks and sky high action, but this ’68 D12-35 is easy peasy with a slinky setup. We just can’t decide if we like it more for the lush projection for strumming, or the whoomph! and presence of individual notes when fingerpicking or flatpicking.
Other keywords: cf martin, 12 string, 12 fret, vintage guitar, brazilain, stika, c.f. martin, fingerstyle, double string
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.9 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.313 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to Compare1966 Martin 12-35 Brazilian/Sitka
This wonderful Martin D12-35 is from 1966–the second year that Martin produced 12-strings. This instrument is all original with the exception of the heel cap. Thanks to the stunning Brazilian back and sides and Sitka Spruce top, the tone of this well-kept guitar is phenomenal. It’s becoming more difficult to find these in original condition, but this guitar is evidence of what Martin craftsmanship is all about.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to Compare2000 Olson Jumbo 12 String East Indian/Sitka
Jim Olson enjoys a reputation unlike any other one-man custom shop: he has built many, many guitars, each one to exacting standards which yield an instrument that’s anything but standard. However, of that multitude of guitars, only a handful have ever been Jumbos, and an even smaller handful have been 12-strings–and the Indian–Rosewood-and-Sitka–Spruce Olson we’re offering here is both. To make this 2000 Olson even more unique, Jim is no longer taking orders for either 12-strings or Jumbos! And that’s not even taking into account the Celtic knot and cross inlay work with which famed inlay artist Larry Robinson (of Martin’s D-100 fame) has adorned the fretboard and headstock.
As if all of that wasn’t enough to put this guitar at the top of your list, the playability and tone of this 12-string Jumbo isn’t like any 12-string you’ve played before. The balance is surgical, the string-to-string articulation pronounced, the voice simultaneously complex and controlled. Set up to play like butter on a hot iron skillet, this Olson 12-string has an immense projection that manages to avoid the wall of sound pitfall of a lesser 12-string guitar, instead remaining clear and well-defined even when driven hard with a flatpick. Rigged with an undersaddle pickup and Calton flight case, this rare Jumbo gem of a Jim Olson is ready to soar.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.88 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2008 R. Taylor Style 1 12-string Quilted Mahogany/Adirondack (Red)
This is one of the best sounding and playing twelve string guitars we have ever heard! This is an R.Taylor style 1 made from Red Spruce and “The Tree” Mahogany. Tonally this twelve strings is sweet and powerful, not at all brittle like twelve strings can tend to be. This is a showpiece guitar, the woods are top notch, and the inlay work is exquisite. This is a lifetime guitar!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.88 in String Spacing 2.38 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Mahogany 
Add to CompareBrand New Rainsong CO-WS3000 12-String, Carbon Fiber, Concert Series
The Concert Series is all about Warm Tone. These are the lightest soundboards built by RainSong using unidirectional carbon. Unidirectional carbon mimics the tight grain of a fine spruce soundboard. Thus, it is not surprising that this line produces a warmer tone.
The RainSong CO-WS3000 12-String Acoustic-Electric Guitar combines the large-sized sound chamber with lightweight carbon-fiber/spruce construction to deliver extra-loud and deep tone that superbly counterbalances the extra treble strings. This is a 12-string guitar that is great for strumming and finger style, full of power and delicacy, and ready to hit the road. The RainSong CO-WS3000 12-string acoustic-electric guitar is able to stay in tune at concert pitch and to withstand temperature and humidity variations; qualities that every seasoned 12-string player has long pined for.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 25.4 in Nut Width 1.875 in String Spacing 2.313 in Woods Carbon Fiber, Carbon Fiber 
Add to Compare2012 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