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1926 Gibson L-1, Mahogany/Spruce
Nothing beats holding a piece of history in your hands, especially when that piece of history sounds as good as this 1926 Gibson L-1. As you’d expect from a 90-year-old vintage box, the L-1 might be small but it packs a lot of voice in its little package! This was the year that Gibson would introduce the L-1 model (and it would enjoy but a brief 11-year lifespan before being discontinued in 1937) with Mahogany back and sides, Spruce top, and Ebony bridge and fingerboard. Some of America’s biggest music legends have played L-1s. Remember that photo of Robert Johnson in pinstripes and hat with Gibson in hand? Yup. Or Norman Blake, whose collection includes a 1930 L-1.
There are miles and miles of dry, woody tone waiting to be explored in this Gibson. Short scale and a wide fingerboard make for great fingerpicking times in open tunings; holds up loud and clear to flatpicking too. These early Gibson flattops have thinner tops and braces which make for great volume and a colorful response. A sweet piece of history indeed, with tone and character to spare.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.2500 in Nut Width 1.8750 in String Spacing 2.3750 in Woods Spruce, Mahogany 
2007 Wingert EVC Dream Series, Brazilian Rosewood/Italian Spruce
This guitar feels, more than most, like a finely-honed tool. If music-making were woodworking, this Wingert EVC Dream Series would fall somewhere between a Narex paring chisel for precision and a Lie-Nelson No. 164 plane for smoothness and ease of use. There’s just so much clarity between the strings and individual notes. A 12-fret neck and 25 inch scale keep string tension and top activation at a sweet spot that’s easy to play and boosts the bass and lower mid response. Excellent setup for fingerstyle, and lowered tunings are a delight.
Brazilian Rosewood back and sides (a striking set that’s straight-grained with sumptuous red-brick striping) and an Italian Spruce top make up the EVC’s body, and Kathy added an arm bevel and soundport for player comfort. The neck carve is somewhere between a C and a D; say it’s a flattened C and you’ll get the picture. Think of feathers: this neck carve is overall thin, baby-smooth to the touch, and lends a helping hand for fast fretwork by not slowing you down in the slightest. Kathy added a red band to the center of the rosette that offsets the green and blue shimmer from the Abalone, and ties in well with red trim around the top. Red is a tricky color to use here, but Kathy has assembled her color palette well; it’s striking rather than distracting. When every element comes together as organically, not to mention resonantly, as this 2007 Wingert EVC, you’ve found a rare bird indeed.
Here’s an additional demo with our own Al Petteway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYhW_gC5bgo
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.8100 in String Spacing 2.3100 in Woods Spruce - Italian, Rosewood - Brazilian 
1998 Monteleone Radio Flyer, Red Maple/Adirondack
A thing of beauty is a Monteleone. We are fortunate to have acquired an exquisite sample of John’s masterwork that’s been kept in excellent condition since its birth in 1998: a Radio Flyer in flamed Red Maple and Adirondack Spruce. 17 inches across the lower bout, 3 inches deep at the sides, gently radiused back and sides, African Ebony tailpiece, bridge, and pickguard, 1 13/16” nut—the dressings of archtop royalty. Bound in Red Maple, and with a Red Maple neck, this Monteleone reminds us just how beautiful flamed Maple can be, and John hand-rubbed Nitrocellulose finish has adopted a honey amber patina to bring the Adirondack and Maple together.
In spite of a generous lower bout, this archtop is built light and airy, and its voice lines up accordingly. We were delighted to find trebles which absolutely sang, and meshed smoothly with an overall middle register emphasis that lent the tone an simultaneously crisp and woody flavor. John describes the sound of individual notes on an archtop as articulate bubbles, and we find the description fitting: there’s a well-defined pop that separates each note and keeps solos ringing and chords clear. With a gentle fingerstyle touch, the Radio Flyer could purr; dig in with a pick to accentuate an agile, airy response. A colorful splash of treble overtones bloom when played softly, keeping the voice clean and lively even when quiet.
In short, this is one of the finest archtop guitars we’ve ever laid hands or eyes on. It’s an honor to offer a piece of functional art of this calibre from John Monteleone.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4000 in Nut Width 1.8100 in String Spacing 2.06 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Maple - Red 
2012 Traugott R, Brazilian Rosewood/German
If this 2012 Traugott R were a flower, it’d be in full bloom. The voice has clarity and openness in spades; the kind of string-to-string separation to breathe new color into each chord; a response at once swift and easy. This model R demonstrates why Jeff Traugott’s guitars are so revered. Jeff’s understated aesthetic is a perfect complement to the voice: the interplay of curve and contour, like that of the bass fundamental and treble overtones, is precisely executed and flows organically.
At a glance, the Brazilian-and-German–Spruce Traugott looks so natural as to have always been there, cradled in your hands. In the bass, trebles, and everywhere in between the voice flows from the soundhole as easy as breathing. Some great guitars have a big, flashy personality–this Traugott R achieves as much, if not more, in a refined package that belies an elegantly open voice underneath.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4000 in Nut Width 1.7500 in String Spacing 2.2500 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Colorado Case Covers – OM/000 Sky Blue
We recommend Colorado Case Covers to protect both your case and your instrument. Your case will be protected from the rigors of the road and the thermal lining will protect your instrument from drastic temperature changes. You will also get a convenient shoulder strap and large front pocket. An elegant embroidered Dream Guitars logo also adorns each cover. Contact us for custom options.
Case covers go over the outside of your existing hard case. Protecting the expensive hard case from scratches, temperature fluctuations, latch failure during baggage handling, provides increased storage, and a more efficient carry systems such as handles and straps.Covers Comes with our Dream Guitar logo embroidered on the face!
Dreadnought size fits many guitars, generally 000-Dread and allows switching between guitars of various sizes. Also fits oversized flight cases well.
Classical/OM size fits smaller instruments generally parlor – OM.
WE ALSO OFFER CUSTOM SIZING AND COLORS FOR ANY GUITAR WITH 4-6 WEEKS DELIVERY. YOU CAN PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE AND WE WILL CALL YOU TO FINALIZE THE DETAILS OF YOUR ORDER OR CALL THE SHOP.
Colorado Case Covers – OM/000 Brown
We recommend Colorado Case Covers to protect both your case and your instrument. Your case will be protected from the rigors of the road and the thermal lining will protect your instrument from drastic temperature changes. You will also get a convenient shoulder strap and large front pocket. An elegant embroidered Dream Guitars logo also adorns each cover. Contact us for custom options.
Case covers go over the outside of your existing hard case. Protecting the expensive hard case from scratches, temperature fluctuations, latch failure during baggage handling, provides increased storage, and a more efficient carry systems such as handles and straps.Covers Comes with our Dream Guitar logo embroidered on the face!
Dreadnought size fits many guitars, generally 000-Dread and allows switching between guitars of various sizes. Also fits oversized flight cases well.
Classical/OM size fits smaller instruments generally parlor – OM.
WE ALSO OFFER CUSTOM SIZING AND COLORS FOR ANY GUITAR WITH 4-6 WEEKS DELIVERY. YOU CAN PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE AND WE WILL CALL YOU TO FINALIZE THE DETAILS OF YOUR ORDER OR CALL THE SHOP.
Colorado Case Covers – OM/000 Charcoal
We recommend Colorado Case Covers to protect both your case and your instrument. Your case will be protected from the rigors of the road and the thermal lining will protect your instrument from drastic temperature changes. You will also get a convenient shoulder strap and large front pocket. An elegant embroidered Dream Guitars logo also adorns each cover. Contact us for custom options.
Case covers go over the outside of your existing hard case. Protecting the expensive hard case from scratches, temperature fluctuations, latch failure during baggage handling, provides increased storage, and a more efficient carry systems such as handles and straps.Covers Comes with our Dream Guitar logo embroidered on the face!
Dreadnought size fits many guitars, generally 000-Dread and allows switching between guitars of various sizes. Also fits oversized flight cases well.
Classical/OM size fits smaller instruments generally parlor – OM.
WE ALSO OFFER CUSTOM SIZING AND COLORS FOR ANY GUITAR WITH 4-6 WEEKS DELIVERY. YOU CAN PLACE YOUR ORDER HERE AND WE WILL CALL YOU TO FINALIZE THE DETAILS OF YOUR ORDER OR CALL THE SHOP.
Colorado Case Covers – OM/000 Charcoal
We recommend Colorado Case Covers to protect both your case and your instrument. Your case will be protected from the rigors of the road and the thermal lining will protect your instrument from drastic temperature changes. You will also get a convenient shoulder strap and large front pocket. An elegant embroidered Dream Guitars logo also adorns each cover. Contact us for custom options.
Case covers go over the outside of your existing hard case. Protecting the expensive hard case from scratches, temperature fluctuations, latch failure during baggage handling, provides increased storage, and a more efficient carry systems such as handles and straps.Covers Comes with our Dream Guitar logo embroidered on the face!
1942 Gibson J-45 Banner, All-Mahogany
You gotta love that vintage guitar smell–decades of good tunes under the hood mixed with a little blood, sweat, and tears. This 1942 Gibson Mahogany J-45 is a beast from yesterday! One of the loudest Banner J-45s we’ve had in the shop, this Gibson has the iconic Louisville Slugger neck and a killer woody tone that really speaks to its impressive age.
There’s more vintage mojo at work here than you can swing a baseball bat, or this Gibson Banner neck, at. By all appearances, the neck has never been reset, but there’s still lots of life left to the saddle height and it’s set up as a loud strummer right now. For such a big body, the weight is surprisingly light. The singer songwriter will love the volume and woody response, especially if you like to croon Townes Van Zandt or Steve Earl tunes. Outfitted with an L.R. Baggs Lyric pickup, this vintage Banner J works further miracles on stage, too!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 24.7500 in Nut Width 1.7500 in String Spacing 2.1250 in Woods Mahogany, Mahogany 
Eastman hardshell case for Slope D acoustic guitar
New old stock fiberglass case by Eastman for Slope D size acoustic guitar.
The Slope D 14-fret guitar shown in one photo is shown strictly for reference and only the case is included in this listing.Measurements taken from edges of foam/lining without compressing the foam:
lower bout: 16 1/8″
upper bout: 12″
depth at heel: 4″
depth at tail: 5-1/2″
body length: 22-1/8″The foam/lining could compress gently approximately another 1/2″ beyond these measurements.
2008 Froggy Bottom H-12 Deluxe Cocobolo/Adirondack (Red)
It is no secret by now that we love Froggy Bottom guitars here at the Dream Guitars shop, we can honestly say that a dud has never come through our doors. Now we could say that we have gotten lucky but we know better, Froggy Bottom only know how to build exceptional guitars. The whole DG crew would have a Froggy Bottom guitar if they could! This a 2008 H-12 Deluxe model in Cocobolo Rosewood and Adirondack (Red) Spruce. As is always the case, this guitar has gorgeous tone, it is rich and full from bass to treble with surprising volume. there is nothing not to like here, we promise. Playability is smooth with a soft V neck profile and twelve frets to the body. Perfection.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.7500 in String Spacing 2.1900 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Cocobolo 
2007 Beneteau Baritone Macassar Ebony/Sitka
This Baritone is the guitar equivalent of a 20oz porterhouse steak: at first glance it seems like too much, but after the first bite you know it’s a perfect fit. We don’t know what Marc Beneteau’s been feeding his regular guitars to make them grow up to be such impressive baritones, but the results are hard to miss. Juicy, fat trebles. Bass response with some meat on its bones. Sustain so prolonged you have to chase it away with a stick.
Marc put together this 2007 powerhouse with a shorter (in Baritone land) 27” scale and his M body (16 1/8” lower bout) in a Macassar Ebony and Sitka Spruce package—the Ebony and scale warm up the voice and keep it articulate, while the Sitka makes sure all those beefy overtones project well beyond the soundhole. There’s also a Laskin-style Arm Bevel and a soundport in the upper bout, and a McIntyre Feather pickup with which to make a splash into amplified territory. Played in nicely but in like new condition, this Beneteau Baritone is a delicious pièce de résistance you won’t want to miss out on.SOLD Read moreScale Length 27 in Nut Width 1.8100 in String Spacing 2.3100 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Ebony - Macassar 
1996 Ron Pinkham LP Master 20th Anniversary Brazilian/German
Maybe it’s the two decades’ worth of opening up, or the thin French Polish gloss, perhaps the flattened C profile neck or German Spruce top—whatever it is, this 20th Anniversary LP from Ron Pinkham is an intensely resonant guitar. This beautiful example of French Polished Brazilian Rosewood is excellent for the fingerstylist who plays across the spectrum of altered tunings, but it holds up handsomely to a flatpack as well. Just pluck the open strings and let this baby ring. Now that’s sustain!
The trebles have a potent powder coat of overtones that really dress up the upper register and fill in the rest of the voice with some sparkling colors. Ron reverses the body taper with his LP model, making the upper bout deeper than the lower, which helps accentuate the balance and response. Visually, this Pinkham doesn’t slouch. There’s some gasp-inducing figure across the Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, mosaic rosette with Classical flair, and intricately carved headstock. The neck profile is what you’d get if you married a Classical D shape with a typical C profile: the cheeks are shallow but delicately curved (and quite comfortable on the left hand). Pretty, and with a purpose most resonant, the 1996 Pinkham 20th Anniversary LP is the powerhouse all-around excellent guitar you’ve been looking for.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.6300 in Nut Width 1.7500 in String Spacing 2.1300 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
2017 Matsuda M1, Brazilian Rosewood/Italian Spruce
In the world of high-end lutherie, Michi Matsuda’s work stands alone. Here in our little corner of paradise, among the Somogyis and Traugotts, Manzers and Monteleones, this Matsuda M1 manages to stand apart from this singular crowd. It’s not just in the curve of the upper bout into the waist from the Florentine cutaway, or the asymmetrically grooved heel carve (the thumb slipping casually into place when fretting along the fingerboard extension). There are other forces at work than the purely visual. As mesmerizing as is Michi’s sense of line and curve manifesting across the segmented top inlays or headstock veneer, or the luster of the Brazilian Rosewood back, this M1 betrays deeper secrets than those found by sight or touch.
When the string are plucked, that’s magic. The voice transitions smoothly between subtle and triumphant, balancing the bell-like trebles with a middle register articulate and precise, and a bass response bearing just a hint of warmth to round out the bottom edge. No matter the tuning, this Matsuda remains clear, nuanced, and invigorating. Michi coaxed the extreme edge of energy out of the Italian Spruce top with his honed voicing techniques. Carving the neck profile into a shape as intimate a lover’s touch, Michi made an instrument which plays as effortlessly as breathing.
It would appear that Matsuda has mastered the ability to reduce Rosewood, Spruce, and Cedar to their natural essences, and to marry them together into a harmony not unlike love. We were transfixed from the first pluck. We still are.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.2500 in Nut Width 1.7500 in String Spacing 2.2500 in Woods Spruce - Italian, Rosewood - Brazilian 
1978 Henderson 000-28, Indian Rosewood/Spruce
What could be finer than quality time with a Wayne Henderson guitar? Answer: quality time with 000-28 #51, the guitar Wayne built before his personal guitar, D-18 #52. Indian Rosewood and Spruce, Wayne’s name emblazoned across the thistle headstock inlay, and his curving bridge pin layout, match up smooth as you please with the traditional Martin-style herringbone appointments, Grained Ivoroid binding, and MOP diamonds across the fingerboard.
Around the block a time or two, this Hendo beau from 1978 is in excellent shape—all that time has not been wasted, either. The kind of quick response you’d expect from vintage, played-in guitars? We’re happy to say that yes, this 000 has more than opened up, and the 25.4” scale and soft-V neck is a delight for picks or fingertips.
We all love a good Henderson Dreadnought for volume and projection, but this lil 000-28 has a bit of the “little dog, big bark” complex, which is to say it’s as comfy as a lapdog but prone to frequent bouts of rather loud howling when you dig in for a bluesy solo.
We’d love to keep this beauty for ourselves, but that would hardly be fair to all you loyal Henderson lovers! Give us a ring for an in-hand description of the 000 Wayne built just before his personal D-18!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4000 in Nut Width 1.6900 in String Spacing 2.1300 in Woods Spruce, Rosewood - Indian