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Add to Compare2007 Bourgeois Custom OMS Macassar Ebony/Italian
Here, we’re looking at a guitar which elicits a visceral response from the player. This 2007 Bourgeois OMS was custom-built with Macassar Ebony for the back and sides, Italian Spruce for the top, and a 12-fret neck for clarity and punch. The ideal fingerstyle guitar, this OMS responds beautifully to a range of approaches, offering impressive depth of tone and articulate warmth in the middle registers to breathe new life into your fingerstyle arrangements.
This Bourgeois is so comfortable to play (with freshly polished frets courtesy of our very own repair shop), it’s difficult to keep track of time when it’s in your hands. There are notes across the upper register which shimmer with overtones once played, and from the low E to the high, the balance is precise and even. Lowered tunings let the bass notes really swell, thanks to the striking Macassar Ebony back and sides, and the setup is glass-smooth and addictively effortless.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 25.63 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.31 in Woods Spruce - Italian 
Add to Compare2005 Bourgeois OMS Indian/Adirondack (Red)
Dana Bourgeois’s team has consistently churned out some gorgeous guitars for the NAMM shows over the years, and this OMS, made for Winter NAMM 2005, is number nine of ten! Indian Rosewood for the back and sides, Adirondack Spruce for the top, 12-fret design for maximum warmth, arm rest for added comfort–what more could one ask for of a fingerstyle instrument?
The slightly wider nut (at 1 25/32″) gives the left hand just a smidge more room, making those complex fingerings easier, and the 12-fret neck gives the strings an easy tension that oozes rich warmth right out of the gate. Players looking for an intimately-sized guitar with a focused, articulate voice, look no further: this 2005 Bourgeois provides excellent string-to-string balance, and has just had its frets freshly polished by our repair staff so it plays like a newborne babe.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.63 in Nut Width 1.78 in String Spacing 2.31 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2006 McGill Collector Series Cocobolo/German
If you could distill the rich voice of traditional Classical guitar construction with the clarity and aesthetics of contemporary design, you’d have an instrument the calibre of this McGill. One of Paul McGill’s Collector’s Series, this guitar dips into Crossover territory with its 1 15/16″ nut, drop shoulder cutaway, and L.R. Baggs Lyric pickup, and backs up those convienient playability features with a butter-smooth voice and silky-smooth setup. Figured Cocobolo Rosewood make up the back and sides, and a set of creamy German Spruce tops this guitar off and provides that extra smoothness to the tone. At home for recording, or on stage at your next performance, this 2006 McGill Collector’s Series is the perfect combination of expressiveness and playability.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.59 in Nut Width 1.94 in String Spacing 2.24 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Cocobolo 
Add to Compare2010 Keller Jumbo Indian/Engelmann
With the deadly combination of striking aesthetics and exceedingly well-balanced tone, Michael Keller gives us this gorgeous 2010 Jumbo with an offset soundhole and two soundports for an acoustic experience unlike any other. Not only do the sizable soundports provide unprecedented access to the interior workings of Keller’s bracing techniques, they also project a hearty blast of music right at the player, so there’s never going to be a time when you can’t hear yourself, no matter how loud the session at your local ale house.
Between the gorgeous, straight-grained Indian Rosewood of the back and sides, and the Engelmann Spruce, there’s more eye candy than you’ll know what to do with: precision-cut MOP across the fretboard, thin bands of Abalone and dyed wood trim across the top and headstock, and a five-piece Mahogany neck with Maple and Rosewood laminations. Well-adapted for both fingerstyle arrangements and flatpicking, you may find that your other guitars will quickly start gathering dust once this Keller Jumbo enters your collection. It has heaps of rich, colorful tone to offer, and a clean projection that can cut through the mix with ease. Handled with care by its previous owner, this Keller bears only the faintest play wear, but is itching to get grooving.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Engelmann, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2015 Rick Turner Model 1C-LB Mahogany/Mahogany
Tired of pulling out another electric guitar from your arsenal every time you’re looking for a different sound? Consider the Model 1C-LB. In the combination of a fully magnetic pickup, the angle of which can be fully adjusted relative to the strings, and a piezo bridge pickup, with an individual pickup on each saddle, with a blend knob, tone knobs, quasi-parametric boost, and push-pull knob for single coil effects, Rick Turner has given this guitar the keys to the entire workshop: you can get just about any tone out of this 2015 Lindsay Buckingham model.
Add to that a shallowly-radiused fingerboard that’s great for slide playing, too, and a chambered Mahogany body with a Cedar core for girthy sustain, and the options become even more multitudinous! This is the sort of high-end electric guitar which can put entire collections out to pasture.
Add to Compare1976 Martin D-76 East Indian/Sitka
This Dreadnought feels patriotic every day of the year! Adorned with stars across the fretboard and stripes across the three-piece Indian Rosewood back and Sitka Spruce top, this Martin D-76 is number 1,855 of 1,976 guitars that Martin built in commemoration of the United States’ Bicentennial, making this the guitar for the year of 1855 (the last year of the California Gold Rush).
In excellent shape, this D-76 has a rich voice that’s backed up by Martin’s trademark Dreadnought projection, making this a Fourth of July firecracker for Bluegrass or Old Time flatpickers, and comes with its original Martin hardshell case in a unique shade of soft blue.
SOLD Sale! Read moreScale Length 25.4 in Nut Width 1.69 in String Spacing 2.13 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2002 Doolin Dreadnought Brazilian/Adirondack (Red)
When we say they just don’t make ’em like this any more, we mean it. And although Mike Doolin is no longer building instruments, he’s added some key features to his guitars which allow them to continue to play as beautifully as their first day, from a pinless bridge system to a fully adjustable neck, which allows one to maintain optimal playing action with the same ease as adjusting the truss rod: just one twist of an allen key. That said, this Dreadnought is set up perfectly already!
With slinky low action, spot-on intonation across the fretboard (itself with unprecedented access in the upper registers), and a voice clear as church bells on Sunday, this 2002 Dreadnought is much more than the sum of its parts. Speaking of parts, we’ve got a gorgeous set of Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides, fretboard, and bridge, and is paired with an Adirondack Spruce top that’s bound in flamed Koa for a package that’s exciting yet elegant. The trebles are blessed with sweet shimmering overtones all across the frets, and the low-end has a powerful projection and well-defined edge. Amplified with a B-Band A2 Stereo pickup, and wrapped up in a Calton flight case, this exceptional, unusual Dreadnought is ready for any gig, at any place.
Check out this other video of Al playing the Doolin with a fingerstyle approach: www.youtube.com/watch
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.56 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.19 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to Compare2000 Everett Milano Indian/Sitka
If only we had more builders with a graceful aesthetic like Kent Everett! From the Abalone flowers floating across the fretboard, to the Koa bindings, dark Sitka Spruce top (from the 1960s) and Indian Rosewood back, and relief-carved heelcap, this 2000 Milano sings a swansong of harmonious lines and sumptuous curves. Tonally, this guitar is equal parts melodious and raucous, perfect for everything from gentle fingerstyle arrangments to bright, percussive accompaniment with a pick–in fact, this guitar sounds incredibly loud and articulate with a flatpick and a more aggressive attack.
The bass has a powerful snap and well-defined edge, so if the blues take you, this Everett Milano is ready to roll. The Sitka Spruce top has fully opened up in the past 15 or so years of life, and lends this instrument a fierce projection with even a light touch. Lastly, decked out with an L.R. Baggs iBeam pickup you can bring this powerhouse to your gig with the confidence that you’re going to sound as lush and dynamic acoustically as amplified.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.4 in Nut Width 1.81 in String Spacing 2.19 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2015 Artinger Venetian Hollow Mahogany/European Spruce Electric City Artinger Pickup
We’ve got another gorgeous offering from the workshop of Matt Artinger–a 2015 Venetian Hollow in European Spruce and Mahogany! Between those choice woods and an all-East-Indian-Rosewood neck, this electric guitar is dressed to the nines with an Electric City Artinger humbucker pickup and gold Waverly tuners.
A smoking Jazz machine with the single pickup, this semi-hollow is much lighter than a typical Jazz box, and is easy on the left hand with an oil-finished neck profile and slinky low action. The voice has a gorgeously clear bottom end, with a middle register that has an articulate punch that’s excellent for fingerstyle arrangements and present, crisp trebles. And when we cranked the amp to 11, all that clarity and drive was still there, ready for some Jazzy action!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25 in Nut Width 1.69 in String Spacing 2.19 in Woods Spruce - European, Mahogany 
Add to Compare1999 Martin HD-28 Custom Brazilian/Adirondack (Red)
To all you Bluegrass pickers, we apologize: this custom HD-28 from Martin here makes lesser Dreadnoughts sound, well, less. Built to its previous owner’s own specs in 1999, this HD-28 has gorgeous chocolate-dark Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides an Adirondack Spruce top, and is bound up neatly in a herringbone-and-ivoroid binding package. This Dreadnought has been blessed with some fearsome low end growl, and can wind up to a fierce projective force with even a light attack.
By request, Martim finished the Mahogany one-piece neck with a satin finish that feels like velvet to your left hand, and won’t gum up when you really get into that solo at your next session. Practically as clean and unscratched as the day it was finished, this HD-28 is in splendid condition, with miles and miles left in both the saddle and the frets, and comes with a Martin TKL hardshell case to make sure it stays that way.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.69 in String Spacing 2.13 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to CompareCirca 000-28 Brazilian/Adirondack (Red)
John Slobod’s Pre-War style guitars are in a category unto themselves. This 2015 Circa 000-28 lives up to that legendary reputation in its flawless fit and finish, its cozy size and playability, and its simple, modest appointments. Slobod used a set of richly figured Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides, and voiced the 000 with Adirondack Spruce; the resulting tone is dynamic, articulate, and exceedingly well balanced.
Fingerpickers, listen up! If you can think of it, this guitar can play it, from a soft ballad to a bloodboiling Kottke-like arrangement. The 12-fret neck is made in the traditional style of the 1920’s and 1930’s–which means there is no truss rod–so the profile is a soft V to compensate for the string tension. This guitar already sounds absurdly beautiful, and it’s still opening up!
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.78 in String Spacing 2.31 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to Compare2005 Wingert 00 Brazilian/German
As of late, we’ve had a slew of magnificent instruments, and this 2005 Wingert 00 fits right in with the best of them. Finding a set of Brazilian Rosewood this gorgeous and responsive in today’s market? Difficult to say the least, but Kathy appears to have snagged some excellent sets for herself, and it’s a treat to see how well this particular set has been employed. The curving butterfly wings of the grain patterns exhibit chocolate-rich colorings, and are matched only by the medullary rays of the German Spruce top, itself matched by a sparkling winged sprite inlaid with Abalone and Mother-Of-Pearl across the headstock by Kathy’s own daughter, Jimmi Wingert.
Once we were able to tear our eyes away from these attractive features, the guitar became an entirely different beast at the first pluck of the strings. Celtic arrangements in DADGAD are rich and sustained; travis-style fingerpicking in Standard is crisp and projective; even wrong notes sounded great! Between these top-notch tonewoods and the 00 body, this Wingert is optimized for the fingerstylist who wants to squeeze every bit of nuance out of their music, and Kathy’s famously smooth fretwork and low action make playing effortless. Ready for a guitar which can do justice to your arrangements? This Wingert (wrapped up in a Calton case) is up to the challenge.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - German, Rosewood - Brazilian 
Add to CompareVines CX East Indian/Western Red Cedar
Tony Vines has been building guitars for 26 years, and after a sabbatical he’s back with a vengeance. In 2000 Tony rededicated himself to playing the guitar and attributes his latest improvements in his instruments to his greater ability as a player. This guitar was custom-built for our shop with gold EVO frets, polyester finish, and Tintul bridge pins, and Tony insisted on passing through numerous sets of Indian Rosewood until he found the exact pair for this guitar; which he calls a perfect set. We elected to go with the Cedar top to add richness and beauty to this masterfully-built instrument, and the result is even richer and expressive than we’d hoped.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.5 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Cedar - Western Red, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2003 Ryan Nightingale East Indian/Sitka
We get some truly amazing instruments that pass through our showroom, but only a handful of those guitars hooks us with an emotional response. This 2003 Ryan Nightingale Grand Soloist is one of those few instruments which, from aesthetics to tone, pulls something out of the player that they didn’t know they had. Fingerstyle guitarists, we’re talking to you.
Providing a rich, full-figured presence from the bass strings to your arrangements, and pairing that with treble overtones like bells, this Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce Nightingale has the ability to transform the simple into the grand, and the epic into the elegant. Played in lowered tunings, you can feel the pulse of the low end thick in your gut, but the setup is so glass-smooth that the experience of playing this Ryan is an excercise in effortlessness. Each string is rendered in vibrant color, and is perfectly balanced with its neighbors, rendering the voice complex, but surgically balanced. Add an L.R. Baggs iBeam pickup to the mix, and a Calton flight case with Colorado Case Cover, and you’ll want for nothing. This, friends, is the sort of guitar you’ll carry with you for a lifetime.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.75 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Sitka, Rosewood - Indian 
Add to Compare2001 Nashville Guitar Co. Slope Shoulder Dreadnought Indian/Adirondack (Red)
Here, Marty Lanham’s done a wonderful job of blending the warm presense of a 12-fret neck with a Slope Shoulder Dreadnought body for added depth and sustain. This 2001 Dreadnought has a rich, colorful bass that rolls out of the guitar like the rumble of an old Chevy, so if you’re ready to let the top down, this guitar is ready to hit the road for the nearest Bluegrass or Old Time jam. Flatpickers will love the sheer hugeness of the voice, and all you fingerpicking songwriters can rely on the sweet warmth of the 12-fret design to lend extra color to your songs with the Adirondack Spruce top. Looking for a smooth-playing Indian Rosewood Dreadnought with the articulation and playability of a much smaller guitar? Look no further; your ride has arrived.
SOLD Read moreScale Length 25.38 in Nut Width 1.75 in String Spacing 2.25 in Woods Spruce - Adirondack (Red), Rosewood - Indian