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Here is like-new Collings OM with mere hours of play on it. The ‘3’ indicates the addition of a select abalone rosette, bound fingerboard and double bound peghead, clean fingerboard and gold Waverly tuners. More importantly the ‘G’ indicates a German Spruce top which makes this a very special Collings guitar. German Spruce brings greater clarity and brilliant headroom to this beautiful guitar. It’s a nibble fingerpicker and also works great for solo work. Players such as Pete Huttlinger use the Collings OM.

Bob Taylor started his career as a solo guitar builder much like the many great builders of today. Anyone who’s played one of those early Taylors knows how different they are from the Taylor Factory guitars, more open, alive and complex in tone. The R. Taylor shop was setup to be a smaller shop approach to building, offering custom guitars. 5 Luthiers work in the shop and build instruments like this Cocobolo and Adirondack Style 1. This is a modified Dreadnought shape that can handle strumming, flatpicking and fingerstyle and do it all well. The tonewoods are beautiful and so is the resulting voice. This Style 1 R. Taylor guitar is in perfect, like-new condition.

Hiro Ebata, like Michi Matsuda and Mario Beauregard, apprenticed in the shop of the great master Luthier Ervin Somogyi. Hiro is now building from his own shop in Japan and carrying his teachers work proudly within his own. This Modified D style guitar has a gorgeous voice with abundant might, poignant bass and singing trebles. The French polished German Spruce top is very aptly paired with premium Madagascar Rosewood to produce an extremely complete guitar. The Mod D size was pioneered by Ervin Somogyi to be a big, powerful guitar that was balanced enough for fingerstyle and Hiro designs is just that.

Here’s another fabulous 1990s Collings, this one in amazing flamed Koa. The set of Koa here is breathtaking with tight fiddle-back curl unlike anything we’ve seen before. This is a very, very special set of wood. The Sitka Top is perfect and full of silking, proof it’s perfectly quartered. The voice is brilliant, articulate and powerful. The condition is perfect, coming to us from it’s careful original owner.

We were offered this guitar from a customer selling a large collection and as soon as we played it we bought it. This is a very special Goodall, the Redwood top really makes a difference here and adds warmth and deep beauty to the voice. Curly Koa bindings, upgraded Gold Gotoh 510 tuners and a cutaway complete this wonderful Goodall and the playability is simply superb. This like new RGCC is better than new because you’ll save money for another guitar!

Some feel that Martin is making far too many Signature Editions these days, but this is one that works because it’s design is different and has real merit. The Norman Blake Signature Edition incorporates a 000 sized body, slotted headstock, V neck profile, short scale, a 12 Fret neck, a bridge in the sweet spot and braces that are scalloped. All of that adds up to tone, sweet tone… If Martin guitars were priced on tone alone, this would be five times the price. Blake fans read on….