Sign in for this 2019 Huss & Dalton OM Custom if you’re looking for a workhorse that’s gorgeous to boot. Sinker Redwood top plus a uniquely colored Cocobolo body makes for a great mix of warm tones and crisp definition, to say nothing of the striking aesthetic. This beauty is nearly new and ready for more action.

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The fine team at Huss & Dalton Guitars brings us this 2015 TD-R Custom rigged out with dramatically figured Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, torrefied Adirondack Spruce top, and herringbone trim for a classic traditional aesthetic. The voice is wide open, very clear and articulate, and sensitive enough for fingerstyle play in addition to the flatpicking approach we’d more commonly associate with a dreadnought.

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Huss & Dalton’s MJ is a 16 inch jumbo that likes to speak its mind, and it’s got a lot to say with its Malaysian Blackwood back and sides and Torrefied Adirondack Spruce top. Not to mention the K&K Mini pickup for those amplified moments! This lovely MJ comes to us from 2018 and is in solid playing shape, already wide awake thanks to the torrefied Adi top. Bound with Figured Maple and appointed with half herringbone trim, this H&D MJ looks fantastic, and is a delight to play.

Other keywords: fingerstyle, 5026, fingerpicking, adriondack, torrifed, torrofied, mj custom

Among the many reasons why we love having Huss & Dalton guitars in the shop, the fact that they have great taste in powerful tonewoods and consistently voice their tops for maximum projection rank at the top of the list–both things that this TOM-R has in spades. The Brazilian Rosewood that make up the back and sides are the color of chocolate mousse (and twice as rich), and the Adirondack Spruce top has a sweet, warm color to match its balanced and dynamic voice.

An excellent guitar for virtually all applications, this TOM-R also comes with an L.R. Baggs Anthem undersaddle microphone system–so it sounds superb both acoustically and amplified, letting that crisp, bright voice ring out. The neck profile is smooth and low, which when coupled with the slinky setup of the Ebony fretboard makes this instrument effortless to fret and great for players who play nimbly across the frets. The trebles are sweet, with delicate lilting overtones, and they really sing when the TOM-R is played with flatpicks: fiddle tunes sound full and complex, and give the instrument they were written for a run for its money. As if all this weren’t enough to make this the guitar of your dreams, it also comes in a snazzy TKL tweed hardshell case, so it looks fine both in the case and out!

The shop is teeming with great smaller-bodied guitars these days, like this 2009 00-SP from Huss & Dalton Guitars. With East Indian Rosewood back and sides and Engelmann Spruce top, this guitar has a particularly sweet voice, with lots of clean projection for its 00 size. This is an excellent guitar for solo fingerstyle arrangements, thanks to the easy playability, the separation of notes across the strings, and the clarity and drive that comes from having an Engelmann Spruce top. Bound in Rosewood and Maple, this 00-SP looks the part of an older Parlor guitar, and has a voice which begs to sing Rag Time and Blues numbers. This guitar comes with the original tweed TKL hardshell case, and is in excellent condition.

Here we have what may be the most balanced dread we have come across in recent memory, a Huss & Dalton TD-R Custom in Adirondack (Red) Spruce and Brazilian Rosewood. The first thing we think we should mention about this guitar is the breathtaking Brazilian Rosewood used on this guitar, it is truly of a rare quality, the figuring is beautifull and is on not only the back but the sides as well, this is easily one of the prettiest sets of Brazilian we have seen, ever. In keeping with the quality of wood, the quality of tone this guitar has is show stopping. It is balanced expertly from bass to trebles, every string is full and lush, each as beautiful as the next.