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Acoustic Music Works keeps about three hundred acoustic guitars in stock. These include the finest factory built steel string and resonator guitars, as well as a few archtops, and some impressive classical guitars. We feature the region's best selection of professional grade steel string guitars from Collings, Huss & Dalton, Bourgeois, Goodall, Beard, Lowden, National Resophonic, Breedlove, Gallagher, Eastman, and Composite Acoustic. We also carry intermediate grade instruments from Breedlove and Blueridge, and from time to time, custom guitars by individual luthiers.

Here is a sampling of our guitar inventory. We buy, sell, trade, and invite consignments. We do our best to keep the website updated. The occasional price flub or typographical error should be interpreted as folksy charm, not deviousness. No auto-responders here, all e-mails receive a personal, prompt and courteous reply. We get a *lot* of e-mail, and we reply to every message. If you don't receive a reply, please call or try again as that means the mail server or our overly assertive spam-filter is on the fritz. Stuff happens.






Collings guitars are made in Austin, Texas, and are arguably the finest steel string guitars being built today and are quite likely tomorrow's collectible instruments. They exhibit remarkable craftsmanship, and offer exceptional playability, stability, responsiveness, volume and punch. We keep a wide and varied inventory, and fill a LOT of special orders, but Collings guitars sell through here very quickly. We particularly like their mahogany, maple, koa, and Brazilian rosewood guitars and their use of Adirondack and German spruce, but honestly, they seem incapable of building a bad guitar. We've done our homework and listened, listened, listened, and really know what makes these guitars tick. Collings guitars just fly out of here (over 100 Collings instruments sold in 2006). If you see something you like, please call. They go fast. Certain models are downright impossible to keep in stock, and we always have a bunch (currently over fifty) on order. We have stock orders scheduled well into 2010 but have build slots held in reserve to accomodate special orders. Every now and then, we have something VERY special in the works or tucked away in back that does not get listed on our website. Some folks ask us not to display their custom order treasures. We take a lot of pre-sold special orders, many of which don't get listed here. If you don't see what you are looking for, please call or e-mail. We love to talk about Collings guitars and we invite custom orders. If you have a used Collings to trade or consign, we have a "want list" for certain models and we are fair and we go the extra mile. Used Collings guitars hold value and they sell quickly. Try us first!

Here's a photo taken at the 2006 NAMM Show in LA. That's the two Steves. Our Steve and Steve McCreary just gushing over the new D1A VARNISH guitar. A new standard for flat top steel string guitars.


Collings CW MhA - VARN CW Mahogany
VARNISH
Just arrived (NEW) The iconic Collings CW in mahogany and Adirondack spruce dressed to kill in va-va-va-VARNISH. A model that quite often successfully takes the buyer off the market forever, a CW is about as good as a guitar can be. Every CW we get is killer. A CW in varnish? OVER-kill. Hooo Boy!! Honest to Pete....This CW really kicks butt. 4.0 pounds, with a fullness of tone that is remarkable, really. Played side by side with a varnish D1A, the D1A has slightly more percussive woof, but there in an openness and mid-range sparkle to this particular CW and rumble in the upper bass that slices and dices, seriously, like nothing we've ever heard. In that it is our first VARNISH CWMhA, by the way, I suppose that is why it sounds like something we have not heard. Duh.... Is it better than the D1A-Varnish? NO - but it is different enough that it would be *really* hard to choose between the two. List
Price: $7,175
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Price: $6,457
Collings D1A Varnish
custom
Just arrived, and took the prize (NEW) And off to the varnish huff room we go! Don't wait up. Another one of our customs. The D1A, the one to have when you are having only one. We picked the woods for this one. The guitar that needs no 'splainin' Lucy. Style 3 backstrip, no tongue brace, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 1/4" (CW style) saddle spacing, fretboard and headstock binding (tortoise) and the totally torchified headstock (pearl torch inlaid in headstock veneer.) I am getting giddy already. VARNISH! Oh...and sunburst! (List: $8,250) Should be here 4/17 Note: Arrived early, just in time for tax day. Listen. We've had fifty D1As. More than a dozen have been varnish. *This* light (3.9 pounds) box of joy is the best D1A we have heard. Those who ask that we call you when something *very special* arrives? Consider yourself called. $8,250 SOLD(GS) SOLD
Collings D1A - VARN Just Arrived (NEW) Truly, the model that keeps the bills paid here at Moe's House of Mahogany, the ever-popular Collings D1A. This one washed in the mud, vitalized by the varnish, made whole by the Holy Grail, that combination of mahogany and Adirondack spruce that really gets the Goose. Call us Krazy. Being convinced, committed to, and koo-koo about mahogany as we are, we like to dress these in style. This is a basic D1A for which we requested "perfect" wide grain Adirondack spruce for the top and perfect free-of-figure mahogany for the back. To the basic D1A, we've added fretboard and peghead binding and a fancy torch on the headstock. And a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. We think a world class guitar deserves that kind of finery, and so do you. One serious guitar. Ready? List
Price: $7,500
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Price: $6,750
Collings D1A VARNISH Just arrived (NEW) It will be good to get some fresh and aromatic stock into our famed varnish "huff" room. Wouldn't you know it, a D1A Varnish with a few nice options: 1 and 3/4" nut width, Vintage Now neck and bridge, Adirondack braces, no tongue brace, cut thru saddle, Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay. A guitar which requires no explanation. Just exclamation. This one is a loose cannon, with very robust bass, woody warmth, and volume to spare. That Vintage Now neck always seems to add a little something to the nether regions tonally. If you are looking for "the one to go to war with", this could be the artillery you have been seeking. 4.2 pounds, this pistol packing Mama. Take no prisoners, indeed. List
Price: $6,925
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Price: $6,230
Collings OM1Asb- cut OM1A sunburst
CUTAWAY
Just Arrived (NEW) So...have you been listening to Pete Huttlinger at all? You really should. We all should. After doing so, we've concluded that there is only one thing more satisfying than a Collings OM1A guitar with a cutaway, and that is an OM1A with a cutaway and a Collings Style One sunburst. And a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. One of these and one of Pete's instructional videos and a weekend of woodshedding - instant motivation. Here is what we say: Stop watching the cable news shows - and watch Pete do this. Now get back on that guitar. And get back in style. List
Price: $5,875
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Price: $5,287
Collings OM1A cut
ADIRONDACK cutaway
(NEW) Truth be told, Moe guesses that the 15,000 Collings guitars in circulation are in the hands of 5000 or 6000 very smart and fortunate people, because as we all know - once you have a Collings, you want a second and a third Collings. Face it, Collings owners are a pretty elite group. With serial # 15001, Collings has turned another corner, and reached another milestone. Speaking of some round corners, how about the handsome shoulders on this - perhaps the ultimate all-around guitar - a Collings OM1A with Adirondack spruce top, CUTAWAY, and 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. This guitar does everything well from light fingerstyle to aggressive flatpicking. It's difficult to find something that this guitar will not do. At 3.6 pounds, she is light, and she is ready. She's got mojo. She's visually rugged with some serious barn wood on top. We added a style three backstrip just to fancy her up a bit, but she can speak for herself. She's woody, she's sweet, and she is in fine voice. Want some satisfaction in these trying times? Join that small group of people who own one of the finest things money can buy. Stay strong. Play hard. Get serious. List
Price: $5,225
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Price: $4,702
Collings OM2-G cutaway
German
Just arrived (NEW) We love the combination of East Indian rosewood and German spruce. A Collings OM2 is all the guitar any one really needs. An OM2-G is even more. And add a cutaway? Now, there is the perfect guitar! 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. List
Price: $4,750
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Price: $4,275
Collings OM1AV-SB
VARNISH
Just arrived (USED) OK speed dialers, let's see who is fastest on the draw on this one! We are taking on consignment what many consider the ideal Collings guitar - the most versatile, the best sounding, and best looking guitar in the line. Interested? Coming in on consignment, a truly fabulous sounding lightly built Collings OM1A with style one sunburst and Va-va-va-VARNISH!! Priced new at $7,350, this *mint* condition used guitar is priced to sell here very quickly at $5,500 - 1 and 3/4" nut, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, lightly built (3.7 pounds) and DEAD mint. A rare opportunity. SOLD
Collings AT-16 Blonde Just arrived (NEW) Just when we think Collings has peaked, we've seen it all, and it can't get any better - he drops a new archtop on us that just pushes our re-set switch. Our expectations are high, but he's knocked us out and re-booted us in modern Texas style. Alex at Collings warned us that it was outrageously beautiful and that he is in "love" with this guitar. Strong words from a man who knows a thing or two about love and about lumber. There is so much cross grain interesecting with straight grain, the back of this guitar looks like a checkerboard. Checkers, anyone? There are no words for the sound. An archtop for Texas Red. An axe for the Ages. Gawd's own guitar. Didn't last a week. (SOLD) (CA) SOLD
Collings D2H-G VARNISH
German
Just arrived (NEW) Our favorite way to serve up a D2H is with that perfect marriage of East Indian rosewood and German spruce. Since we like them so much, we figured it was high time we put our checkbook where our mouth is and order one up in VARNISH with no tongue brace. Whatcha think? 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. As expected, the guitar has an enormous sound that hits on every cylinder. Highs, lows, and everything in between is present, fat, and happy. A controlled roar, a reverberant wonder. Quite impressive. List
Price: $6,350
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Price: $5,715
Collings CJ Mh A ss sb Just arrived (NEW) One of our best selling models - the iconic Collings CJ in mahogany and Adirondack spruce with dark tobacco sunburst, tigerstripe pickguard, and tortoise binding. There's not a lot that can be said that has not been said already. This model speaks for itself, and some consider it the most versatile guitar that Collings builds. This jaw dropping guitar features a short scale and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. It is a thing of beauty and the guitar of a lifetime for someone, anyone. They usually sell very quickly. List
Price: $6,025
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Price: $5,425
Collings CJ Mh A ss sb Just arrived (NEW) One of our best selling models - the classic Collings CJ in mahogany and Adirondack spruce with dark tobacco sunburst, tigerstripe pickguard, and tortoise binding. There's not a lot that can be said that has not been said already. This model speaks for itself, and some consider it the most versatile guitar that Collings builds. This fabulous guitar features a short scale and a 1 and 3/4" nut width as well as two other of our very popular options: a Style Three backstrip and a flourish on the headstock. List
Price: $6,275
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Price: $5,647
Collings OOOMRGssSBcut
MadRose VARNISH
Just arrived (NEW) A custom order placed in December of 2007. No wine before its time. Ready? The model number is a mouthful: OOO2MRGssSBcut-VARN. That's a OOO in Madagascar Rosewood with German spruce top, SHORT SCALE, sunburst, cutaway, and VARNISH! Beautifully understated with that warm varnish patina, great looking MadRose, fabulous sunburst, cool cutaway and no suprises - it sounds amazing. SOLD (DA) SOLD
Collings OM2MRG Mad Rose German
cutaway
Just arrived (NEW) And away we go! A GERMAN spruce topped Collings OM2 (NO herringbone purfling) in MADAGASCAR Rosewood with the CUTAWAY, style three backstrip, 42 style snowflakes, and 1 and 3/4" nut width (of course). A premium guitar with lots of goodies. It's warm and deep with the added brilliance of German. It's complex. Call it the next best thing to Brazilian, call it a guitar and a half, call it a very good idea....perfectly executed (List: $6,150) List
Price: $6,150
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Price: $5,535
Collings OO2MRG
MadRose German
Just arrived (NEW)Ordered in November of 2007 (it has taken a while for the MadRose to season) and worth the wait. A OO body Collings in Madagascar Rosewood with a fine German spruce top. We eliminated the herringbone (nod to JR) and we eliminated the slotted headstock. So this is a custom solid headstock OO with 1 and 3/4" nut width (pretty cool, huh?) We kept the pyramid bridge and we ordered a pickguard "on the side" (not installed) in case the new owner wants to add one. Ordered as a pair (well, sort of) with the O2MRG shown below, one is a 12 fret wonder and the other is a 14 fret stunner. We could see why someone might buy both. MadRose and German is a superb combination. This small guitar has great warmth and sustain. ON HOLD (ML) ON HOLD
Collings DS2HMRG Mad Rose German custom Just arrived (NEW) The long awaited train from Madagascar has pulled into the Austin station. Is Madagascar rosewood the heir apparent to the now almost extinct and priceless Brazilian rosewood? MadRose can also very difficult to obtain in the size needed for guitar backs, and has a tonal depth similar to Brazilian, with perhaps a bit more warmth and weight. Coupled with German spruce, it makes for a very rich and potent sounding guitar. This will be one of our custom DS2H 12 fret dreads with a torch on the SOLID headstock and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. It is fabulous with depth and shimmer. It is both dessert and dinner. It has abundant fullness but great clarity as well. It is exceptionally good, with Collings volume and a sophisticated overtone-rich brilliance that serves fingerstyle and flatpick equally well. It goes without saying that it is "gi-normous" sounding, but it is also capable of great subtlety. It is a four course meal, it is one serious guitar. $ 6,250 SOLD SOLD
Collings D1A Just arrived (NEW) We get all the best Collings D1A guitars. There we said it. Or maybe, just maybe, Collings is incapable of making a bad D1A guitar, or any guitar for that matter. Whatever the case, we have one here that is typical of the breed: Fierce, loud, proud, explosive, and posessed of growl that is both gigantic and persuasive. Very nice looking Adirondack spruce top and a few nice options: 1 and 3/4" nut width, tortoise bound fretboard and headstock, figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay. Take your playing to the next level. Take no prisoners. (List: $5,000) List
Price: $5,000
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Price: $4,500
Collings D1Asb (NEW) Our best selling model, the Collings D1A. It really doesn't require a lot of explanation. It has taken its place among the finest mahogany dreadnoughts ever conceived. As guitars go, it is, as Moe has said many times, the "one to have when you are having only one". If you've spent any time at all on this website you've seen dozens and dozens of world class custom D1A guitars come and go quickly. We hang our hat on this model. This one will be a 2008 model sunburst D1A with 1 and 3/4" nut width, CW style pickguard, nickel Waverlies, and a style three backstrip. It will be pretty and it will be powerful. Pretty powerful. If you've decided to step up to a serious guitar, here's your ticket up. Your ticket out of the world of lesser guitars. List
Price: $5,325
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Price: $4,792
Collings D1 sunburst Just arrived (NEW) Back to basics. We build some fancy guitars here, and every day brings a heightened sense of adventure. But let us not forget, sometimes the basics are best. In that spirit, we've ordered up a pair of workhorse guitars - Collings D1 in style one sunburst. This first one has a 1 and 11/16" nut width. It is a marvelous example of what Collings can do with sharp tools and good wood. Warm, full, loud, and proud. All the guitar most of us needs, really. List
Price: $4,150
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Price: $3,735
Collings D1 sunburst Just arrived (NEW) Back to basics. We build some fancy guitars here, and every day brings a heightened sense of adventure. But let us not forget, sometimes the basics are best. In that spirit, we've ordered up a pair of workhorse guitars - Collings D1 in style one sunburst. This second of the pair will have a 1 and 3/4" nut width. SOLD (BJ) SOLD
Collings Ukes!! Just arrived (NEW)You've heard the news. Gad-zooks, Bill Collings is building ukes. The uke is hot, the uke is hip. Your grandparents fell in love to the sound of one. Arthur Godfrey popularized them. Tiny Tim ruined them for a whole generation. George Harrison made them cool again. Jake Shimabukuro, the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele, blew the lid off of the thing. Del Rey taught us the Blue Uke. Victoria Vox brought it to the singer-songwriter genre. Now Bill Collings, the Master of the fretted instrument universe, will perfect the uke. Think you are too cool for a uke? You are not. Travel instrument? Perfect. Breath of fresh air? You betcha. We received two of the prototypes today (one mahogany and one koa with cedar top. ) They sound GREAT. They are more fun than a box of puppies and I promise you, there will be LOTS and LOTS more. How to solve the financial doldrums? Join the Uke-apalooza at Acoustic Music Works! INQUIRE
Collings UC1 Just arrived (NEW) You've heard the news. Bill Collings is now building ukuleles, and FINE sounding ukes they are! This is the entry level UC-1 satin finish mahogany uke. All solid mahogany, bone nut and saddle. Peghead brand 4:1 mechanical tuners that cleverly look like violin friction pegs but are not. This prototype has the standard headstock. One adjective says it all: Sweet! GREAT lively woody sound. One pound of musical bliss and global harmony. Join the Uke-apalooza at Acoustic Music Works! Prototype # 48. List price: $1,100 An absolute steal at our price of $990! Why not get two?? $990
Collings UC1 Just arrived (NEW) You've heard the news. Bill Collings is now building ukuleles. This is the entry level UC-1 satin finish mahogany uke. All solid mahogany, bone nut and saddle. Peghead brand 4:1 mechanical tuners that cleverly look like violin friction pegs but are not. This prototype has the large "haircut" headstock that will not be on subsequent UC-1s. GREAT lively woody sound. One pound of musical bliss and global harmony. Join the Uke-apalooza at Acoustic Music Works! Prototype # 8. List price: $1,150 SOLD (MM) SOLD
Collings UC2
Koa and Cedar
Just arrived (NEW) This is the mid-level UC-2 uke in standard grade koa and Cedar. Slightly warmer tone than the mahogany, bone nut and saddle. Peghead brand 4:1 mechanical, ivoroid binding, gloss finish. This prototype also has the large "haircut" headstock that will be standard on the subsequent UC-2s and above. Sweet warm sound. Prototype # 6. List price: $2,100 $1,890
Collings UC2
Mahogany
Just arrived (NEW) This is the mid-level UC-2 uke in mahogany with a gloss finish. This UC2 prototype will have the large "haircut" headstock. Prototype # 10 List price: $1,600 SOLD (GW) SOLD
Collings UC-2sb Just arrived (NEW) This is the mid-level SUNBURST UC-2 uke in mahogany with a gloss finish. Full body sunburst, tortoise body binding, ivoroid purfling List price: $1,950 Looks just like an OM1Mhsb had a baby. SOLD (MM) SOLD
Collings UC3-K
Koa
Just arrived (NEW) This would be the higher-level UC-3 uke in flame koa with a high curl koa top and gloss finish. Brazilian rosewood fretboard and peghead veneer, body and fretboard binding, List price: $2,600 This one is a prototype and does *not* have a bound headstock (the final production model UC-3 will have a bound headstock.) It sounds AMAZING. $2,340
Collings OOO1 custom black
Doghair
Just arrived (NEW) We've got a customer. Let's call him Jeff. Jeff has a grand sense of humor and a bold sense of adventure, and he absolutely loves the black/white "doghair" Collings 290 electric we sold him last year. So he, with little prodding from us, challenged Collings to build a light HOG topped doghair OOO with rope purfling and pearloid headstock veneer and pearloid pickguard, of course. Oh, we've had other doghair acoustics, but never a doghair hog top. It's the Hog Daddy, and the Hottest Dog. Astonishingly woody sounding, crisp and warm at the same time, hard to photograph, off the charts unique. Sorry, the pics are unable to fully capture its cool factor. You'll have to take Moe's word for it. It's wicked good. It looks hot and sounds amazing. What a Honky Tonk guitar. SOLD - We've ordered a matching UKE!! (JM) SOLD
Collings D1A VARNISH custom (SOLD) (NEW) We hear there is a recession, but we have chosen not to participate. One of our customs - VARNISH D1A with extremely fine Adirondack spruce top. Custom features include style 3 backstrip, NO TONGUE BRACE, and 1 and 3/4" nut. This is a pretty simple guitar as guitars go. Simple and powerful. So we'll not say more. $6,725 SOLD
Collings D1A
VARNISH
Sunburst
Just arrived (NEW)Just arrived. The guitar that can do no wrong, from the company that is incapable of building a bad guitar. The one to have when having only one. A reward for a life well lived. A good reason to wake early and play guitar before work, or to skip work altogether. Another one of our custom D1A VARNISH guitars. This one is mightly special. Here are the vitals: D1A with style one sunburst, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 1/4" CW style saddle spacing, tortoise binding all over with the neck and fingerboard binding including the crosscut purfling and style 3 backstrip. There is so much more. The guitar has a torch on the headstock, which renders the builder and brand incognito, so we emblazon the 12th fret with a pearl Collings logo. The guitar has no tongue brace and its body has been slathered with varnish yielding a tone that is beyond magnificent. In a word, the guitar is perfect. Don't let our low key description fool you, this is a guitar of a lifetime. Ordered for store stock. Let us take this opportunity in a crummy economy to thank the folks at Collings Guitars for keeping us proud and building the finest guitars in the world. In the home run derby of life, the man from Austin is king. Play it with me: TAKE me out to the ball game.... SOLD
Collings OM1 Mh (NEW)A regularly featured custom model for us here at Moe's House of Mahogany. A Collings OM with mahogany top in splendid full body vintage sunburst with 1 and 3/4" nut width, Brazilian rosewood headstock veneer, ebony knobbed nickel Waverlies and tortoise binding and purfling on neck and headstock. These are extremely popular and are the perfect medicine for someone who is in a guitar rut. Inspiration on a stick, fun in a bun. Fresh pics! List
Price: $5,200
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Price: $4,680
Collings OM1 koa German (NEW) Oh my! We try to get several of these koa OMs each year, as Collings locates the most magnificent koa for us, and we are never disappointed. We have a special fondness for koa guitars, particularly those topped with good German spruce. So we present our first 2008 Collings OM1koa-G. Just a perfectly clean basic OM1 enhanced by richly flamed koa back and sides, and that melodious German spruce top. 1 and 3/4" nut width of course. The koa on this guitar is positively delicious, with striking three dimensional figure and depth. And speaking of depth, the guitar has that exotic tonal richness that comes from German spruce, mixed with that dark haunting reverby overtone of koa. A particularly handsome and sophisticated sounding guitar. List
Price: $5,450
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Price: $4,905
Collings OM1 koa German (NEW) Oh my! Another new OM1koaG - in flame koa with German spruce top. We present our second 2008 Collings OM1koa-G. This one a little fancier than the first with rich flamed koa back and sides, a perfect German spruce top, abalone rosette, and tortoise binding on body, neck, and headstock. A rich ebony headstock overlay completes the picture. 1 and 3/4" nut width of course. The figured koa on this guitar has a lovely organic symmetrical pattern in it. The guitar has a sophisticated sound with strong low end and lots of sustain. The guitar of a lifetime for some lucky person. List
Price: $6,100
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Price: $5,490
Collings OM1 custom
Maple German
(NEW) And now for something slightly different. We don't sell a lot of maple guitars. No one does. We believe that is because most people have never played a great maple guitar. They've played too many brand G and brand T maples that have let them down. Sit down and play a maple Collings sometime! For all of those that are complaining about sore shoulders and are threatening to shelve your dreadnoughts, consider a Collings OM. Fiesty, loud, and proud. What does maple do to an an OM? It adds a fierce presence, quickness, and projection. What does German spruce do to the top? It adds sustain, complexity, and depth. This is an amazing fingerstyle guitar that also flatpicks very well. A great and versatile mid sized guitar worthy of your consideration. We dressed this one up with tortoise binding, style 3 backstrip, fretboard and headstock binding and extra purfling. Oh, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. $5,000 ON HOLD (DP) ON HOLD
Collings CJ Mh A sb
Varnish
(NEW) Well, we had (almost) forgotten about this one. Ordered back in November of '06 (remember 2006?) a sunburst varnish CJ for ol' Moe himself. This will be a va-va-va varnished tigerstripe pickguarded, flourish on the headstocked, ivoroid bound custom CJ with 1 and 3/4" nut width (of course) and it will be available for purchase later this week. Moe is a 200 pound sack of altruism and self-denial. He has a Zen-like ability to resist temptation. He may be given to hyperbole, but he's not given to hoard a rare guitar like this for himself, when others go hungry for one. You want it? You got it! If you've been thinking of ordering one of these treasures but don't want to wait a year and a half, say 2010, you can buy Moe's own CJ now. Instant gratification, baaaaby. Life is short, art is long, varnish is NOW. SOLD
Collings 16" archtop
Sunburst
(SOLD) (NEW) The Mona Lisa, the Tower in our Pizza, the Top, the tip, the &*%@! Honestly, of everything we carry, and oh we do carry the GOOD stuff, the Collings archtop guitars are the things that cause all activity to squeal to a halt here. Everyone in the shop drops what they are doing to ponder, to drool, and explore the fine details of the functional art Collings calls his archtop. We've got seven or eight people in our want list for this obnoxiously fine guitar, and we will begin calling and e-mailing them today after we wipe Moe's saliva off the pickguard of this wondrous beast. It is the 34th 16" archtop from Collings. We see one every 18 to 24 months. We don't expect it to last past 12 Noon today. Moe's hands are trembling. Hold your calls: The guitar has been SOLD. SOLD
Collings 16" Archtop (NEW) Few and far between. Every time I talk with Collings (about twice a week) the conversation concludes with them asking "anything else we can do for you? To which I whistfully respond, "yes, send me an archtop". They laugh. I laugh. Well, this week they surprised me and sent us this beauty, the 39th Collings 16" archtop. I cannot fully describe our respect for these instruments. A true modern classic. Jazz, Texas Swing, Gypsy. I don't care. The best L-5 you've ever played. The Collings archtop is a screaming bargain at $8,995 SOLD
Collings SJ Mh A ss SB cut
custom
(SOLD) (NEW) Stop the presses! You know we love our Collings guitars here, and we have handled many of the best Collings guitars ever made. Well, Moe is here to testify that this new arrival may be the finest Collings we have ever seen or heard. Listen: It's a lightly built (3.8 pounds) short scale Collings SJ in HIGHLY figured mahogany. That's good. It's got a master (just killer!) grade Adirondack spruce top. That's great. It's got a cutaway. That's fantastic. It's got Collings' *Broken Glass* inlay pattern. That's extraordinary. It's got (drum roll please) a FULL BODY sunburst that makes grown men weep. That's just mean. Seriously folks, this guitar looks and SOUNDS like it's time to pass the utensils around. We're done, stick a fork in us. I don't think we can do any better than this. Hey, someone wanna order one of these in varnish?? Gawd, does this combination (mahogany, Adirondack, short scale, cutaway) work on every level! Listen to Moe: If you haven''t had an SJ, you're not done yet. SOLD
Collings C10 Deluxe
Cutaway
Just arrived (NEW) We love the C-10 model. There are so many ways to slice and dice it. We chose to slice this one and add a cutaway. So we've got a deluxe C-10 in East indian rosewood with sitka top and cutaway. Oh, we also added Waverly tuners and a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. List
Price: $4,775
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Price: $4,297
Collings C10Mh hog top custom camper
Deep Body
and just look at her!! (NEW) We get to see a lot of mighty cool custom Collings guitars here. We've had C-10 guitars in just about every flavor. We decided to throw the kitchen sink at this one, because we love this guitar model and it seems to work on so many levels. So here we go: A custom C-10 DEEP body MAHOGANY topped guitar with the modified-V OM style neck and square headstock. Did we stop there? Of course not - a guitar like this needs the FULL BODY VINTAGE SUNBURST. Did we stop there? Silly question. We had them build it light and use a BRAZILIAN rosewood fingerboard and bridge for tone and cool factor on this puppy. Stop there? Never! We added full body, neck, and headstock binding in tortoise with some additional purfling on the fingerboard. We requested the 1 and 3/4" nut width (of course)and nickel Waverly tuners with ebony knobs (of course) and the most fantastic Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay. Owww!! She's got a belly bridge just in case you want to run medium strings and drive her hard, but we had her set up and strung with lights at the factory. She's mighty and she's cool! She's light (3.7 pounds) and she just sings. The deep body adds a fullness that actually makes this an ideal all around guitar. Sized somewhere between a C10 and a CJ, she's more like a C-13. Those of you who ask us to call when someting *really* special arrives?? Consider yourself called. Moe gives this C-10 a *ten* List
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Collings C10 Maple (NEW) We love our C10s here. Collings' most versatile guitar. We've not met one we have not liked. This current one features gorgeous flame maple back and sides with sitka top, nickel Waverly tuners, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. Not too fancy, just good. Darned good. In fact, a great blues guitar, with thwack and snarl and a dark punchy side. Great projection, nice bottom. Strong fundamentals...and good manners. List
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Collings C10 custom Camper
Maple German
Sunburst
Off the charts! (NEW) And while we are on the subject of maple guitars, let us tell you about this very special custom guitar we've cooked up: How does this sound: A Collings C-10 "Camper" in gorgeous flame maple with FULL BODY SUNBURST! Our Campers are in the hands of some mighty discerning players. This one has a high grade German spruce top, tortoise binding, tortoise rosette, fingerboard and headstock binding with purfling and Waverly tuners and a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. Easy...but not cheap. Clearly EXCEPTIONAL. List
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Collings 01Mh hog top custom (NEW) Moe's specialty - a custom maHOGany topped O body with a light build, pyramid bridge, no pickguard, and ebony knobbed Waverly tuners. These little Os are fabulous, and the Hog Tops are a personal favorite. Light. loose, loud, and woody! 3.5 pounds of mahogany, carved into musical bliss. What a SWEET guitar!! INQUIRE
Collings CW Indian A
no aging toner
(NEW)Here's a great looking Collings CW. Most builders, including Collings, use an aging toner to add color to the spruce top. We ordered this one wihout toner so the natural beauty of the wood shows through. Here's Adirondack (Red) spruce in all its glory. Wide grain, red streaks, no excuses. The guitar has the characteristic crisp, clear tone with that articulate bass and midrange boost that defines the CW model. Ka-changgg! List
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Collings D2Hsb (NEW) Collings best selling model, the Collings D2H. His classic rosewood dreadnought, this one a custom job decked out in Western shade top with full headstock and fretboard binding - to match the traditional ivoroid body binding. Herringbone purfling, nickel Waverly tuners, 1 and 3/4" nut width and bright ringing rosewood tone. Ka-channnggg! Positively perfect and breathtakingly pretty. Want it? List
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Collings D2H (NEW) The basic D2H - Collings' flagship and best selling model with high grade East Indian Rosewood and a Sitka spruce top. A beautiful guitar with nickel Waverly tuners and optional and very desirable 1 and 3/4" nut width. A world class dreadnought guitar from the top builder in the world. List
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Collings CJ custom
maple SS
(NEW) Oh we have been exploring that deep maple mine at Collings. This is a custom CJ *deluxe* in flame maple with sitka spruce top and SHORT SCALE, tortoise binding on the body, neck, and headstock, abalone rosette, flourish on the headstock, ebony knobs on nickel Waverlies, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. Want to play Ragtime music with room filling piano-like projection? Want an easy-playing warm but "quick" maple guitar with LOTS of bottom end? A maple jumbo from the King of Schwing! This guitar is exactly what the doctor ordered for that big maple thump and rumble. Just a drop dead gorgeous guitar as expected with highly flamed maple and perfect appointments. But the *SOUND*, oh doctor, the sound has healing powers! Drop what you are doing, drive here and try this guitar! We had our doctor, our blues-buddy Ernie Hawkins, spend fifteen delightful minutes with this guitar. (see the pics) Ernie called it "a guitar that has all its parts" and "a guitar that loves the key of F." That's a little cryptic, but oh he made the guitar sing. It has a HUGE bootom end on it, not maple-bright at all. In fact, Ernie called it "warm, dark and dry." It's a blues guitar. It's an exceptionally good rocking blues guitar. We had this one on hold for Ernie until he was able to decide on the perfect Collings for himslef. He has ordered a custom short scale SJ in maple (sitka top) with cutaway - so this custom CJ (which inspired him) is available again. $5,375 List
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Collings CJ Mh SS Sb
Custom
(NEW) Wow. That's all I can say. We know a good guitar when we hear one, but this one really took us all by surprise. It's off the charts, really. Sure, she's pretty, but this guitar SOUNDS positively amazing. Regular old Sitka spruce, doing us proud. Short scale sitka topped guitar with tortoise binding all over, and tone, tone, tone. It has been the year of the CJ, and this one ranks with the best. We jazzed it up a little bit by putting the SJ inlay on the CJ (nice) and a real nice Brazilian rosewood headstcok overlay, abalone rosette, and style three backstrip. It's going to a GREAT player who accompanies his state championship-fiddler wife who (seriously) just rips it up and puts the breeze in Texas Swing fiddle tunes. I am telling you, this guitar will be in good hands, and we'll all be better off for the music it will make. What a pleasure to have a hand in this one!! SOLD
Collings O1 Mh sb
Hog Top
sunburst
(NEW) If the O1 above got you excited (and if it didn't, you need to be checked for a pulse) then howzabout we order one up in vintage full body sunburst? We've also added an ebony headstock overlay and fretboard and headstock binding (tortoise) with that additional tasteful crosscut ivoroid purfling line that Moe likes so much. Moe is on a roll. It's "Hog" Heaven around here with all these great small body mahogany topped guitars. Moe's strutting around here like a peacock as good folks come by and sample the good mahogany. The flash pics make the burst look more yellow than it is - the natural lighting pics are more accurate (it's a gorgeous vintage tobacco/brown burst) List
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Collings O1Gsb (NEW)We can't get enough of these, and no stable is complete without one. The O1. An amazing small mahogany guitar with a German spruce top and 1 and 3/4" nut width, tortoise binding, ebony headstock overlay, nickel Waverly tuners, and the famous Collings style one sunburst. Oh my, this is a singing small guitar. Just perfect. List
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Collings C10Mh custom Just killer!! (NEW) Moe confesses a particular affection for the hardwood topped all-mahogany guitar. Face it, very few of Moe's customers have just one guitar, and we don't generally recommend a hog-top guitar as one's primary axe, but for the special purpose, blues, open tuning, ragtime, cranium re-booting, fresh idea guitar - a Hog Top can be a fresh breeze, a plateau buster, and a wakeup call. With tortoise binding, nickel Schaller tuners, 1 and 3/4" nut width, and pickguard on the side, this simply appointed guitar is all meat and no pudding. (SM/JH) Mighty fine!! Moe spent a few precious moments this afternoon "birthing" this guitar and oh how sweet she is. At first strum, she gave off a harp-like sizzling flurry that turned every head in the shop. When he dug in, the guitar revealed its true personality, that of ballsy blues guitar, with intimidating headroom and thwack. A few were heard to say, "that guitar just sings", but Moe prefers to say "this guitar takes no prisoners". This guitar inflames Moe's testosterone. This guitar is the perfect remedy for that what ails ya. SOLD (ZK) SOLD
Collings C10 Dlx Custom
rosewood deep body Adirondack top
(NEW) C10 custom deluxe model - deep rosewood (dreadnought depth) body - Nick Lucas depth with 1 and 3/4" nut width, natural Red (Adirondack) spruce top, abalone rosette, with ivoroid bound body, neck and headstock (with nice striped ebony headstock overlay) and nickel Schaller tuners with ebony knobs. Deep and deluxe, same way we like our pizza. What sound! These deep C-10s are surprisingly powerful and take what is basically an L-OO fingerstyle blues guitar and transform them into amazingly versatile tight waisted comfortable mid size full sounding guitars for singer-songwriter strumming or even aggressive flatpicking. The Adirondack top on this one delivers max headroom and mucho cut - this is a the *perfect* C10 for the flatpicker or the metal fingerpick wearing bluesman who doesn't want to lug a jumbo. List
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Collings C-10 Deluxe SS sb (NEW) With particularly BEAUTIFUL East Indian rosewood back, dark sunburst sitka spruce top, SHORT SCALE, 1 and 3/4" nut width, ebony knobs on nickel Schallers. We go with deep bodied C-10's quite often, but the short scale coupled with East Indian rosewood standard depth C-10s have a particular fullness and sweetness, with warm wet sparkle and a low frequency richness that makes great use of the L-OO body size. We've done this before, and we'll do it again. Nothing "standard" about a Deluxe sunburst short scale Collings C-10, that's for darn sure. If you've been dreaming of a C-10, it's a good time to take the plunge. List
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Collings D1A (NEW) We sell a *lot* of these. Your standard off-the-rack D1A. The one to have when you are having only one. Nothing added, nothing left off. Possibly the easiest decision a guitar shopper can make. Nothing "standard" about this beauty, with nickel Waverlies, a beautiful striped ebony headstock overlay, and the standard 1 and 11/16" nut width. These sound fantastic, play beautifully, and generally sell VERY quickly. List
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Collings D1A L
(Lefty)
(NEW) We couldn't be Moe's House of Mahogany if we didn't stock a D1A, the industry standard flatpicking guitar, for the LEFTY set as well. Sell the rest, buy the best. Standard features - 1 and 11/16" nut width. List
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Collings SJ
maple
(NEW) - A fabulous Collings SJ in dazzling flame maple. This model is often overlooked, so we are on a mission. We are going to spread our wings and order some custom models just to show you how versatile this body style can be. This new arrival is the basic SJ in maple - the only options are the 1 and 3/4" nut width and the ebony knobs on the mini Schaller tuners. This is the *classic* maple flat top - never bright, always deep, with rib rattling but crystal clear bottom end. Boy it sounds good! Watch these pages for custom SJs in various tonewoods, with cutaways etc! In the meantime, this beauty is available for your pleasure. List
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Collings OO-2 Cedar top (NEW) OO2-C (C for master grade "cedar top") pickguard "on the side". These are mighty and warm and sweet - perhaps the ultimate fingerstyle guitars. Slothead, shortscale, 1 and 13/16" nut width. "The" steel string guitar for a classical player. Just arrived - positively delicious to look at, to play, and to sniff the soundhole! Cedar makes for excellent soundhole sniffing. List
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Collings D2 custom
D2BaaA-Varn
(On Order) Numero Uno. Another *heirloom grade* guitar - ordered at NAMM 2007. This will be a mighty special custom Collings D2 in AA Brazilian Rosewood with an Adirondack top. A beautiful style "2" guitar *without* herringbone, nickel Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, 1 and 23/32" nut width, abalone rosette, NO TONGUE BRACE, and hand rubbed varnish finish. So, how's that sound? RESERVED
Collings AT 16 VARNISH (On Order) Ordered January 2006 at NAMM - sunburst VARNISH 16" archtop - few and far between - this one scheduled for late 2010 (PW) RESERVED
Collings AT 17 custom (On Order) Ordered January 2006 at NAMM - unique light orange-ish sunburst 17" archtop - maple with koa binding on body, fretboard, and f holes. Amazing guitar - just like the one built for 2006 NAMM Show. ETA: late 2010, early 2011 INQUIRE
Collings D2 custom
D2BaaaA-Varn SB
(On Order) Ordered at NAMM 2008 - The first of a matched pair of unique *heirloom grade* Brazilian rosewood Collings guitars - a very special order. This will be a custom D2 (no herringbone) in select AAA old-growth Brazilian Rosewood with an Adirondack top finished in a Western shade top. A beautiful custom guitar with torch on the headstock, nickel Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, 1 and 23/32" nut width, and no tongue brace. How do we top all this? With a hand rubbed *varnish* finish (of course!) Collings has come upon some Brazilian rosewood that when struck with a hammer, rings for what seems like the whole Texas afternoon. These D2 custom guitars will be built from that wood. Your grandchildren will really appreciate you for this. ETA: early 2009 (SM) RESERVED
Collings D2 custom
D2BaaaA-Varn SB
(On Order) Ordered at NAMM 2008 - the second of a matched pair of unique *heirloom grade* Brazilian rosewood Collings guitars - a very special order. This will be a custom D2 (no herringbone) in select AAA old-growth Brazilian Rosewood with an Adirondack top finished in a Western shade top. A beautiful custom guitar with torch on the headstock, nickel Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, 1 and 23/32" nut width, and no tongue brace. How do we top all this? With a hand rubbed *varnish* finish (of course!) Collings has come upon some Brazilian rosewood that when struck with a hammer, rings for what seems like the whole Texas afternoon. These D2 custom guitars will be built from that wood. Your grandchildren will really appreciate you for this. ETA: Early 2009 RESERVED
Collings C10
Custom
(On Order) Man, the C-10 is popular this year! The ever popular "custom" Collings C10 standard depth blues machine. This one painted gloss black with ivoroid body binding and rosette and ivoroid fretboard and headstock binding with extra crosscut ivoroid purfling line. Gloss black headstock veneer with nickel Waverlies. Mahogany back and sides with a sitka spruce top, 1 and 3/4" nut width and micro-dot fretboard inlay. We're going formal with this inspired luxury C-10. Need us a tuxedo with a Texas cumberbund and some proper boots. We're going Honky Tonkin!! Late Spring '09 (JF) RESERVED
Collings custom varnish D1A (On Order) Well sell a LOT of Collings D1A guitars, and feel that the varnish D1A model has redefined the modern steel string flattop guitar. This will be a custom varnish D1A. 1 and 23/32" nut width, Adirondack bracing, no tongue brace, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, style three backstrip, torch inlay in headstock, tortosie binding all over, sunburst, snakewood knobs, Collings logo at fret #12, strap button, and VARNISH finish. We love the look of the sunburst with dalmatian (CW) pickguard. ETA: 2009 (JL) RESERVED
Collings custom varnish D1AV-VARN (On Order) Well sell a LOT of Collings D1A guitars, and feel that the varnish D1A model has redefined the modern steel string flattop guitar. This will be a custom varnish D1A with VINTAGE NOW 1 and 3/4" nut width, Adirondack bracing, Adirondack top, cut thru saddle, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, tortoise binding all over, Style three backstrip, striped ebony headstock veneer, DARK sunburst, and VARNISH finish. ETA: Early 2010 (GS) RESERVED
Collings A series of custom varnish D1As (On Order) Well sell a LOT of Collings D1A guitars, and have a particular affection for the custom varnish D1A model which has redefined the modern steel string flattop guitar. This will be a series of FOUR custom varnish D1As. All will have 1 and 23/32" nut width. Two will feature light style one sunburst with dalmatian (CW) pickguard. Two will have natural tops (clear wide grain)with tortoise pickguards. All will have tortoise binding all over, Adirondack bracing, no tongue brace, torch on the headstock, nickel Waverlies with Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay. RESERVED
Collings SJsssb custom
Maple/German
(On Order) Oh Boy. We'll be Swinging with this lightly built SJ in full body sunburst with German spruce top, Broken Glass inlay, short scale, cutaway, style three backstrip, tortoise binding all over, tortoise rosette, nickel Waverlies with ebony knobs, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. How does that sound? (IB) RESERVED
Collings SJss custom
Maple/Sitka
(On Order) For our pal, Ernie Hawkins - the particular player that he is - has found the perfect ragtime/blues/swing guitar in the Collings SJ-cutaway. Flame maple with wide grain Sitka top, short scale, nickel Waverlies with ebony knobs, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. How does that sound? (EH) RESERVED
Collings OM1 Mh ss cut
Mahogany top cutaway
(On Order) Collings light build OM, mahogany top, short scale, pyramid bridge, cutaway, nickel Waverlies with ebony knobs, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. How does that sound? (CK) RESERVED
Collings CJ Mh Mh SB custom Just arrived (NEW) We all know it's been the Year of the CJ at Collings Guitar Co. so we thought it was a good time for Moe to put his own spin on one, and here she comes! The Mahoginator. Another one of our customs - A CJ Mh Mh sb (that's CJ mahogany with mahogany top, full body sunburst.) You know the CJ and you can just imagine how good a * HOG TOP * CJ will sound. Actually, even we, giddy fans of mahogany that we are, are knocked out by how good this mahogany milkshake sounds. To celebrate the recession to which we so fervently refuse to surrender, we gave her depression era cosmetics - full body vintage dark sunburst, ivoroid binding, and no pickguard (although trust us, there is a firestripe pickguard in the accessory pocket if you'd like to add one.) Just magnificent looking, with a cool vintage vibe. The sound is everything you expect from a CJ - the big surface area is not confined at all by the mahogany. Some small body hardwood-topped guitars can be stiff and one dimensional. This guitar, however, is no one-trick-pony. No, Sir. This guitar can do it all - flatpick, strum, fingerstyle. A great singer-songwriter guitar with a good bluesy edge. Standard tuning or drop-D, down a half step....Nothing less than GREAT! You don't have *anything* like this! Big, bold, woody, and sweet. Lots of adjectives. No apologies. Moe says: There is nothing like mahogany, and the more of it, the better. Bravo Moe! Well!!...that didn't last long..... SOLD! SOLD
Collings CJ Mh Mh SB custom (ON ORDER) We all know it's been the Year of the CJ at Collings Guitar Co. and we were so taken with our first mahogany-topped CJ that we've decided to order a special flock of CJs based on Moe's Hog Top theme. The first one will be *identical* to the one (#15723) in the photos. The Mahoginator. A CJ Mh Mh sb (that's CJ mahogany with mahogany top, ivoroid binding, full body sunburst.)This guitar is no one-trick-pony. No, Sir. This guitar can do it all - flatpick, strum, fingerstyle. A great singer-songwriter guitar with a good bluesy edge. Standard tuning or drop-D, down a half step....Nothing less than GREAT! You don't have *anything* like this! Big, bold, woody, and sweet. Lots of adjectives. No apologies. Moe says: There is nothing like mahogany, and the more of it, the better. RESERVED (ST) RESERVED
Collings CJ Mh Mh ss SB (ON ORDER) The second of the series will be identical to the guitar above (#15723) except it will be SHORT SCALE and will have a flourish on the headstock. INQUIRE
Collings CJ Mh Mh ss (ON ORDER) The third of the series will be similar to the guitars above (#15723) except it will *not* have a sunburst or a flourish, but will be SHORT SCALE and will have Brazilian rosewood bridge, fretboard, and headstock veneer and will have ebony knobs on nickel Waverlies. INQUIRE
Collings OM3-G (ON ORDER) The Collings OM3 guitar with German spruce top, Brazilian rosewood peghead veneer, abalone rosette and gold Waverlies, and 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. A special order reserved for (TB) RESERVED
Collings 001 (ON ORDER)Custom OO with Sitka top, 1 and 3/4" nut width and solid headstock. INQUIRE
Collings electrics
Turn it up!! Speaking of new standards? We're purists. We're snobs. It's too loud and we're too old...whatever...We're all about *acoustic* music here, but we've been drawn to the proverbial crossroads (turns out they are right outside of Austin, Texas) and encountered a very persuasive gentleman there - that Bill Collings fellow is a little intense, but he made a very compelling argument so we traded him our acoustic soul. To see the result, check out our new and positively brilliant line of Collings electric guitars...we find them to be electric guitars for grownups - with incredible fit and finish, great hand wound pickups which produce a fat sound that has a lot of air in it. Clean, bestowed of Texas Twang, sophisticated sounding electrics that carry on the great Collings sonic tradition. They are a players dream. A full stick of butter. Beautifully crafted new American classics. We try to keep several dozen in stock at all times.


Collings I-35 Prototype (NEW) - With our high ranking among Collings' top dealers, we were given our choice of the first (Austin NAMM Show 2006) debut electrics, and the choice was a fairly simple one for us. This I-35 Deluxe blonde (natural finish) with optional *premium quilt top* double cutaway carved top semi-hollow guitar is altogether handsome, positively electric, impressively lightweight and perfectly balanced, has Bill's DNA on it and in it, and was a harbinger of great things to come. Had me a pretty hip '66 ES330 when I was just a wee lad. Forty years later, this seems somehow appropriate - like a grownup's version of that guitar. This first VERY special I-35 deluxe (inscribed NAMM #9) is highly collectible and NOT FOR SALE at this time. Not for Sale at this time
Collings City Limits Jazz
Merlot
Just arrived (NEW) These generally sell before they arrive. The exquisitely unique thinline archtop from Bill Collings with the Art Deco look and the sound you've been searching for. The guitar features a floating Kent Armstrong humbucking pickup. The sound is sweet, thick, and jazzy, the look is pure functional Art. Even unplugged, it has the goods, but you'll want to plug it in. This one (#27) in the gorgeous deep Merlot color. Fresh pics - beautiful guitar. Photos by John Kitchen. $8,500 SOLD (JF) SOLD
Collings I-35 Deluxe
Premium Flame top
Amber burst
Just arrived (NEW) Mama Mia!! A Collings deluxe "35" style carved top double cutaway electric guitar in fabulous flame amber sunburst - High gloss lacquer finish with just an amazing FLAMED TOP. Parallelograms adorn the Madagascar Rosewood fretboard. Just a fabulous looking guitar, that plays and sounds as good as she looks. List
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Collings I-35 Deluxe
Blonde
(NEW) Another exceptional I-35 Deluxe, this one in blonde with a nicely figured Brazilian rosewood fretboard, dot inlay, and Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay. Rather classic, slightly understated, ripping good guitar! $6,000 - SOLD (JC) SOLD
Collings I-35 Deluxe
Premium Quilt
Amber burst
(NEW) and just the way we like 'em. Another exceptional *premium quilt* I-35 Deluxe, this one in Amber with a nicely figured fretboard, parallelogram inlay, and ebony headstock overlay. All the right stuff, and suitable for framing, but we suggest you plug it in and wail on it. List
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Collings I-35 Crimson (NEW) Another great Collings I-35. This one is a unique "standard" "35" style carved top double cutaway electric guitar - Crimson finish - High gloss lacquer finish with optional high QUILT TOP usually reserved for the deluxe model. semi-hollow mahogany body, grained ivoroid top and back binding, custom humbucking pickups by Jason Lollar, Tone Pro bridge and tailpiece, rosewood fretboard, ebony peghead veneer, dot inlay, standard amber volume/tone knobs. Sperzel vintage tuners with grained ivoroid knobs. List: $ 5,400 Fresh pics List
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Collings I-35 Iced tea
Left Handed
(NEW) Collings "standard" "35" style carved top double cutaway electric guitar in bee-you-tee-ful Iced Tea sunburst - High gloss lacquer finish with FLAMED TOP. This one for a lefty. It's a big country, someone has to stand up and support the lefties! The upcharge for lefty is $350. List
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Collings SoCo Deluxe
Doctor Pepper
Just arrived (NEW) The Collings "SoCo" is quickly becoming our best selling Collings electric. Posessed of great temperment and acoustic integrity, the SoCo is somehow *more* than just a single-cutaway I-35. It is slightly heavier, with more mass than an I-35 and with the optional large "flared" peghead it seems to be the ideal jazz-blues semi-hollow guitar. This is a custom order for TWO "dark cherry sunburst" SoCos. Mary Mary calls the finish "Doctor Pepper" and we're OK with that. Of these two orders, one will have the large flared peghead and nickel hardware and one will have the standard peghead and gold hardware. Both will have parallelogram inlay, Brazilian rosewood fretboards, and extremely tight quilt like the one in this photo as they will be built using these amazing maple sets . Come on, wouldn't you like to be a Pepper too? (JF, SC) SOLD
Collings SoCo Deluxe
Blonde
(ON ORDER) The Collings "SoCo" is quickly becoming our best selling Collings electric. Posessed of great temperment and acoustic integrity, the SoCo to us is *more* than just a single-cutaway I-35. It is slightly heavier, with more mass than an I-35 and with the optional large "flared" headstock it seems to be the ideal jazz-blues semi-hollow guitar. This will be a blonde SoCo with premium quilt top, parallelogram inlay, highly figured Brazilian rosewood fretboard and headstock overlay, and the large "flared" peghead. The list price will be $6,700 INQUIRE
Collings SoCo Deluxe
Doctor Pepper
(ON ORDER) The Collings "SoCo" is quickly becoming our best selling Collings electric. Posessed of great temperment and acoustic integrity, the SoCo is somehow *more* than just a single-cutaway I-35. It is slightly heavier, with more mass than an I-35 and with the optional large "flared" peghead it seems to be the ideal jazz-blues semi-hollow guitar. This is another custom order for a "dark cherry sunburst" SoCo with the large flared peghead and gold hardware. It will have parallelogram inlay, of course, Brazilian rosewood fretboard, and extremely tight quilt like the one in this photo (IB) RESERVED
Collings SoCo Deluxe
TSB
(NEW) The Collings "SoCo" is named for that funky and eclectic "South Congress" section of Austin Texas which is home to the Continental Club, Threadgills and other venues that have established Austin as the Live Music Capital of the World. Purchased at the 2008 NAMM Show in Los Angeles, this latest highly figured tobacco sunburst Collings SoCo deluxe. This model brings in elements from both the I-35 and the City Limits to create an amazing Rock, Blues, or and Jazz guitar. Have your cake and eat it too. This one with deluxe flared headstock, dazzling woods and fine pedigree. SOLD
Collings SoCo Deluxe
Root Beer flame
(NEW) The Collings "SoCo" is named for that funky and eclectic "South Congress" section of Austin Texas which is home to the Continental Club, Threadgills and other venues that have established Austin as the Live Music Capital of the World. Speaking of funky and electic, this Root Beer flame SoCo Deluxe is just as sweet and bubbly as she can be. This model brings in elements from both the I-35 and the City Limits to create an amazing Rock, Blues, or and Jazz guitar. This one has the standard SoCo peghead, dazzling woods, parallelogram inlay and black/white top purfling. List
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Collings SoCo Deluxe Premium Quilt top
Tiger Eye burst
Just arrived (NEW) The Collings "SoCo" is named for that funky and eclectic "South Congress" section of Austin Texas which is home to the Continental Club, Threadgills and other venues that have established Austin as the Live Music Capital of the World. Becoming one of the most popular custom fnishes, this Tiger Eye burst SoCo is a real show-stopper. Very hard to photograph, lots of depth of color and quilting. Just rich looking, quite impressive! We've got a matched trio: Tiger Eye burst I-35, SoCo, and City Limits $6,450 (SOLD) (EB) SOLD
Collings I-35 Deluxe
Premium Quilt top
Tiger Eye burst
Just arrived (NEW) Becoming one of the most popular custom fnishes, this Tiger Eye burst I-35 is a real show-stopper. Very hard to photograph, lots of depth of color and quilting. Just rich looking, quite impressive! We've got a matched trio: Tiger Eye burst I-35, SoCo, and City Limits List
Price: $6,350
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Price: $5,715
Collings City Limits
P-90
Caramel
Just arrived (NEW) Here's a hot one. A standard City Limits that is anything but standard. A richly flamed caramel top with P-90 pickups and creme pup covers. How can a guitar this pretty sound so mean? The Sultan of Snarl, the King of Crank. Great Rock/Blues guitar. Something special. CL and P-90. Nice combination!! Great price! List
Price: $4,200
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Price: $3,780
Collings City Limits Deluxe
Premium Quilt
Tigereye Sunburst
Just arrived (NEW) and just delicious. A truly exceptional *premium quilt* CL Deluxe, this one in wild Tigereye Sunburst (new color) with a nicely figured fretboard, parallelogram inlay, and black/white top purfling. Work with us to get those toxic assets off your balance sheet, and this treasure into your collection. $5,500 ON HOLD (GJ) ON HOLD
Collings City Limits Deluxe
Premium Quilt
Caramel
(NEW) Another exceptional *premium quilt* CL Deluxe, this one in Caramel with a nicely figured fretboard, parallelogram inlay, and black/white top purfling. Forget the stock market, let's have some real fun. List
Price: $5,450
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Price: $4,905
Collings City Limits Deluxe
Amber burst
Just Arrived (NEW) and just about perfect. Another marvelous CL Deluxe, this one in Amber sunburst with a nicely figured fretboard, parallelogram inlay, and black/white top purfling. At 7.9 pounds, it will float your boat. List
Price: $5,250
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Price: $4,725
Collings City Limits Deluxe
TSB Flame
(NEW) What an incredible run we had this Summer with the Collings Cith Limits guitar, with four sold in June alone. This CL Deluxe features the classic Tobacco sunburst with on a particularly elegant soft flame wide grained top - the kind of wood we like to see on the backs of old archtops! This one has the subtle dot inlay and, top purfling, and fancy figured Brazilian Rosewood fretboard and headstock veneer. This is a VERY light CLD, tipping the scales at just 7.7 pounds. A rocking good guitar. List
Price: $5,000
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Price: $4,500
Collings City Limits Deluxe
TSB Flame
(NEW)The City Limits Deluxe. Another positively magnificent Collings electric, this CL Deluxe features the classic Tobacco sunburst with highly flamed top. A veritable bonfire! It also sports that cool parallelogram inlay, top purfling, and a really pretty Madagascar Rosewood fretboard. This is another VERY light CLD, weighing in at just 7.8 pounds. This guitar just sings! SOLD (EJ) SOLD
Collings 360
Mermaid Blue
Just arrived (NEW) Speaking of really pretty, how's about this pretty blue thang? It's a 360 model with mini-humbuckers in translucent blue ("Mermaid Blue", Collings calls it) conceived by and ordered specially for us with flame maple top and black knobs. It is crazy pretty. The color is hard to photograph. The outdoor photos provide a better representation of the color, but the indoor (flash) photos do a better job of showing the figure in the wood. Somewhere between the two extremes lives the Blue truth. List price $ 3,500 SOLD
Collings 360
Cherry sunburst
Just arrived (NEW)This is Collings' newest model, introduced at Winter NAMM 2009, it lives somewhere between a 290 and a City Limits. It has a contoured body and it comes with Jason Lollar mini-humbuckers giving it some real bite and growl. This one has a highly flamed top and Cherry sunburst finish. List
Price: $3,500
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Price: $3,150
Collings 360
Doghair
Just Arrived (NEW)This is Collings' newest model, with cool body contours and mini Lollar humbuckers. Hot looking and sweet sounding. This one has parallelogram inlyas and an ebony headstock venneer. Mighty fine! List
Price: $3,050
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Price: $2,745
Collings 290
BLUE
(NEW) Oh Baby! All Hail the BLUE guitar! Some things in life should not be blue, but guitars - now that's a different story. He surprised us with this one. Bill has come up with this translucent blue-pearl that we are going to refer to as "Gearhead" Blue until he tells us not to. It's the first of its kind. It's the only one of its kind, and it's a rock and roll guitar for old blue eyes. Pearl accents, P-90 pups. Custom color and MIGHTY fine! SOLD
Collings 290 TV Yellow (NEW) A Collings 290 in TV Yellow, baby!! Bill really got it right with the TV Yellow finish - old and new at the same time. Perfect. List
Price: $2,600
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Price: $2,340
Collings 290 TV Yellow
Left Handed
(NEW) Ordered for store stock - gonna make some southpaw right happy. TV Yellow Baby! These are hard to come by...might be worth a righty buying it and doing a Hendrix! The lefty option adds $350 to list. List
Price: $2,950
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Price: $2,655
Collings 290 TSB
Humbuckers
(NEW) Collings "LP Special" style electric guitar - in tobacco sunburst finish. High gloss lacquer finish, solid mahogany body. The standard 290 has P-90 pickups, but this one will have HUMBUCKING pickups by Jason Lollar. The humbuckers are a $500 upcharge. The 290's are hot - these are doubly hot. Just arrived - fresh pics. List
Price: $3,100
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price: $2,790
Collings 290 Doghair
Humbuckers
(NEW) Ordered for store stock - a custom 290 with the rocking Doghair finish (black with white pore filler) and two Jason Lollar HUMBUCKING pickups. One might call it a working man's City Limits. We call it rock and roll on a stick. The HUMBUCKING pickup option adds $500 to list. List
Price: $3,100
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Price: $2,790
Used Collings Guitars
Collings SJ 42 BaaaA Just arrived (USED) A nine year old (12/00) Collings SJ42. One of those off-the-charts crazy good guitars that come along every now and then. Built with what was selected and reserved as the highest of AAA grade Brazilian back in 2000. Might as well call it *Dalbergia Unobtanium* now, as we can only dream about wood like that today...or you can own wood like that tomorrow if you purchase this guitar. Your call. Collectible, playable, irresistable. This SJ will warm your heart. Seriously folks, looking for a *killer* SJ with Brazilian and Adirondack the likes of which you have never seen? Say no more. It's a world class guitar, and not surprisingly, it includes a white deluxe Calton case. The nut width is 1 and 11/16". The bridge pins are fossil ivory. The Brazilian rosewood is stupifyingly straight. The sound is as you would imagine. Can't think of anything else to say...ON CONSIGNMENT $10,250
Collings SJ
Rosewood
Cedar
In transit (USED)(Exc.) The Collings SJ is an extremely versatile guitar. Sized somewhere between an OM and a Jumbo, it has a tight waist and sits low on the leg like a small body but its substantial lower bout helps produce a volume and tone that is well.."jumbo" by definition. We've sliced and diced the SJ in maple, Brazilian, mahogany/Adirondack, Koa/German, and a few other combinations. Here's a relatively rare but very James Taylor-esque combination - East Indian Rosewood and Western Red Cedar. 1 and 3/4" nut width, Schaller tuners with ebony knobs. From some builders, this might be considered a *fingerstyle* guitar, and it certainly works well in that mode - but being a Collings, it is not afraid of a flatpick and I dare say this guitar can do just about anything - if you are up to it. $3,450
Collings D42 Brazilian VARNISH Just arrived (USED) Few and far between. We called this our "guitar of the year" when we sold it new in 2007, and we still feel that way about it. It's back here on consignment and it represents a rare opportunity. AAA grade Brazilian rosewood, high grade Adirondack top, 42 trim, tortoise binding, torch headstock, engraved Waverly tuners. Top of the food chain. A very serious guitar. Here on consignment. Inquire for more details. SOLD
Collings OM3-A
Cutaway
coming soon (USED) A splendid gentleman and good customer tells us he's found happiness with one Collings guitar. Perish the thought, happiness with only "one" guitar? We shiver at the thought. Anyhoo - his insanity is your opportunity. He's consigned three remarkably clean and good sounding Collings for us to sell for him while he dedicates his entire dance card to his new Collings varnish OM. Oh varnish, you vixen of the marketplace. Taking our collectors out of the market, that is some sad soup. Back here on planet Earth though, Moe (Moe don't know no varnish) is simply stupified and pacified by the goodness of the three consignment pieces. That sound you hear is opportunity knocking: A shot at some mighty fine nearly-new looking Collings lumber at a "players" price. Numero Uno is a great OM3A-cut with wide grain Adirondack spruce and a cutaway and 1 and 3/4" nut width. INQUIRE
Collings OM1-A
Cutaway
coming soon (USED) A splendid gentleman and good customer tells us he's found happiness with one Collings guitar. Perish the thought, happiness with only "one" guitar? We shiver at the thought. Anyhoo - his insanity is your opportunity. He's consigned three remarkably clean and good sounding Collings for us to sell for him while he dedicates his entire dance card to his new Collings varnish OM. Oh varnish, you vixen of the marketplace. Taking our collectors out of the market, that is some sad soup. Back here on planet Earth though, Moe (Moe don't know no varnish) is simply stupified and pacified by the goodness of the three consignment pieces. That sound you hear is opportunity knocking: A shot at some mighty fine nearly-new looking Collings lumber at a "players" price. Numero Dos is a hot OM1A-cut with wide grain Adirondack spruce and a cutaway and 1 and 3/4" nut width. INQUIRE
Collings OM3MhGss
Cutaway
coming soon (USED) A splendid gentleman and good customer tells us he's found happiness with one Collings guitar. Perish the thought, happiness with only "one" guitar? We shiver at the thought. Anyhoo - his insanity is your opportunity. He's consigned three remarkably clean and good sounding Collings for us to sell for him while he dedicates his entire dance card to his new Collings varnish OM. Oh varnish, you vixen of the marketplace. Taking our collectors out of the market, that is some sad soup. Back here on planet Earth though, Moe (Moe don't know no varnish) is simply stupified and pacified by the goodness of the three consignment pieces. That sound you hear is opportunity knocking: A shot at some mighty fine nearly-new looking Collings lumber at a "players" price. Last, but certainly not least, is this lightly built German spruce topped SHORT SCALE wonder with cutaway and 1 and 3/4" nut width. Really quite special. One ding on this guitar - otherwise could probably pass for new. INQUIRE
Collings OM41BaaG
Brazilian Rosewood
Cutaway
In transit (USED) While we are on the subject of perfect Collings guitars, how about we put this recession behind us and get back to business as usual with this investment-grade Collings guitar: An OM41 with AA grade Brazilian rosewood, cutaway, flowerpot on the headstock, and high grade German spruce. Includes a K&K pickup and bronze Vintage Jack. The guitar will be priced at $8,250 with standard Collings case. ON CONSIGNMENT - We also have a *new* (white) deluxe Calton available for $795 or a *used* (black) deluxe Calton available for $650.00 $8,250
Collings OM2HBaaA
Brazilian
Just arrived (USED) A particularly sweet (we sold it new)AA grade Brazilian Collings OM. 1 and 3/4" nut width, fine Adirondack top top, nickel Waverlies. Excellent sound. Great price. ON CONSIGNMENT $5,900
Collings OM42MRGssSB
MadRose German
Custom
Just arrived (USED) A positively gorgeous Collings OM42 in high grade Madagascar Rosewood. 1 and 3/4" nut width, light fingerstyle build, short scale, pyramid bridge, 42 style abalone top border, 45 style snowflakes, abalone rosette, torch inlay in MadRose peghead veneer, K&K pickup with Vintage jack added, gold Waverlies with ebony knobs, and tobacco sunburst! Wow! How's that sound? Very rich, with a sophisticated series of cascading overtones. Loves to be fingerpicked, and can handle a flatpick quite well. Big sustain, lotsa sing. A real jaw-dropper and dead serious player. Great pickup. Really quite special. ON CONSIGNMENT $5,900
Collings CJMRGss
MadRose German
Custom
Just arrived (USED) A positively gorgeous Collings CJ Deluxe in high grade Madagascar Rosewood. 1 and 3/4" nut width, short scale, abalone rosette, flourish inlay in MadRose peghead veneer, style 3 backstrip, gold Waverlies with ebony knobs, and buckets of tone. Very rich, very full, very pretty. Loves to be fingerpicked, and can handle a flatpick quite well. ON CONSIGNMENT $4,650
Collings OM1-G custom
Deep body
Just arrived (USED) A particularly good sounding deep bodied OM1 with that dollop of German spruce brilliance. Currently in DADGAD tuning, and we can see why one might leave it there. Low action, great setup. *Fine* sound. ON CONSIGNMENT $3,150
Collings C10 ss sb Just arrived (USED) Coming in on trade. This is a gorgeous, bluesy and *GREAT* sounding mahogany C-10 deluxe with a medium sunburst, Sitka top, nickel Waverlies, SHORT SCALE, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. Set up with low action and light strings, this one is perfect for fingerstyle blues or singer-songwriter. We sold it new, and it's had a couple of years to mellow. Nice! SOLD (BB) SOLD
Collings CJ sb Just arrived (USED) Coming in on trade. This is a lightweight, gorgeous, and *GREAT* sounding rosewood CJ with a dark sunburst, Sitka top, nickel Waverlies, and a 1 and 11/16" nut width. Set up with very low action and light strings, this one is perfect for a fingerstyle player or strummer. We'd recommend higher action and medium strings if you want to flatpick it. Very fine sound. $3,250
Collings CJ Mh In transit (USED) Exc. Coming in on trade. CJ in mahogany, beautiful wide grain Sitka spruce top, nickel Waverlies, tortoise binding all over, nice Brazilian peghead veneer and a 1 and 11/16" nut width. List new: $4,200 $2,950
Collings O3A (USED) Our first trade-in involving a Collings O model, and a what dandy "O" she is! As "parlor" guitars go, this one is suitable for a mighty fine parlor. This is a "3" series guitar for which Collings reserves his finest woods (exceptionally nice East Indian rosewood and Adirondack spruce in this case) with the vintage Martin style torch on the headstock, full ivoroid binding, gold Waverlies, abalone rosette, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. The ultimate short scale sofa or porch swing guitar. The songwriter's guitar. Easy going and gorgeous. Essentially new and unscathed she is, this lightly "used" remarkable small guitar. Lists for over $5800 $4,250
Collings C10
Cutaway
(USED) We love the C-10 model. And this one is a genuine pro-ready shop-beater - 14 years old and been played hard and then played some more. Originally purchased by Marshall Crenshaw. It's been played and played. Been re-fretted, possibly several times. Here is a YouTube clip of Marshall with the guitar. Has a nicely-repaired top crack and some nice dings. Great looking real world dings put there in earnest. Possibly by Ernest, who knows? It's got a Baggs pickup and a cutaway and is four pounds of mojo. It's a real gigging guitar, not a trophy, not a living room Collings. Nice! C,mon, be honest. Wouldn't you love to have a fourteen year old Collings that you can gig with and add your own dings with full impugnity? Of course you would. $2,750. SOLD
Collings I-35 Deluxe
Premium Quilt top
Tobacco sunburst
Just arrived (USED)Coming in from Florida, a very clean USED Collings deluxe "35" style carved top double cutaway electric guitar in fabulous tobacco sunburst - High gloss lacquer finish with just an amazing Quilt TOP. Parallelogram inlay adorns the ebony fretboard. A great looking guitar, that represents quite a bargain. Really a nice one! ON CONSIGNMENT SOLD
Collings I-35 TSB (USED)Coming in on trade, a "used" but nearly mint (we are told) standard I-35 in tobacco sunburst. We've dealt with this good customer many times. He knows mint. If he says it's clean, we believe him. SOLD immediately. (TT) SOLD
It's no longer a regional secret. Jeff Huss & Mark Dalton build mighty impressive guitars, and we're bustin' with pride to have one of the best selections in the world, and to have been named their Top Dealer for 2004, 2005 and again for 2006!! The photo shows Tim Nelson's exhuberance over the custom 2007 NAMM Show transparent black custom MJ (maple) that graced our shop after the show. It has Albert Lee's DNA all over it.

A lighter build style than the Collings guitars but with similar fit and finish, Huss & Dalton's tone is often described as "woody", "balanced", "alive", and "open". We, literally, can't get enough of them. Sure, they build *GREAT* Bluegrass guitars - that's a given. But they don't stop there. We particularly like their 12 fret OO and other small body guitars, their mid-jumbo guitars, their use of wood bindings, and their sunburst finishes. Their maple, walnut, and koa guitars are among the best we've heard. With 2500 guitars under their belts now, these guys are shipping consistently amazing instruments. They also offer custom guitars of exceptional value - with comparatively reasonable up-charges for exotic tonewoods and custom features. This list represents just a *portion* of our Huss & Dalton inventory and orders. We always have build slots on reserve. If you don't see what you are looking for, please call or e-mail. We love to talk about Huss & Dalton guitars and we invite special orders. Don't settle on your next guitar until you have tried a Huss & Dalton! As Huss & Dalton's top dealer, we're always looking for more. If you have a used Huss & Dalton to trade or consign, we go the extra mile. We know what makes these guitars tick and we know good lumber when we hear it. Try us first!



Huss & Dalton TDR custom - BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD Just arrived (NEW) If what you seek is a traditional sounding dreadnought with modern playability and perfect intonation, you should consider a Huss & Dalton. A light build, voiced for roaring clear bass and strong trebles, Huss and Dalton get it right. If what you seek is an investment grade dreadnought, you should consider this guitar. It was ordered with fabulously figured Brazilian rosewood and wide grain Adirondack spruce. We also spec'd a drop-in saddle instead of the standard cut thru saddle to make action adjustments easier. The guitar has nothing less than *classic* dreadnought tone with tremendous volume and great clarity. An heirloom grade guitar for someone with the chops to appreciate the finer things. Quit your investment banking job, join a bluegrass band, and rule the world. No apologies, GREAT guitar. List
Price: $7,150
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Huss & Dalton TDR custom - Adirondack top (NEW) The classic traditional dreadnought. No one builds a finer traditional dreadnought than Huss & Dalton. This big old rosewood powerhouse is positively magnificent with big "vintage" tone to match. Big open locomotive bass and strong trebles. A mighty fine bluegrass rhythm or strumming guitar. This one was ordered with drop-in saddle instead of the standard cut thru saddle and without any aging toner so the beautiful Red spruce (and it *is* beautiful) shines like the sun. Huge sound with great clarity. This is a GREAT guitar! This would be the anchor of a hot bluegrass picking session for sure. If you are looking for a great bluegrass dreadnought and if you haven't tried one of these, your search is not yet complete. Bang, zoom! Ka-channnggg! This guitar really has what it takes. List
Price: $4,150
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Huss & Dalton TDM custom - Adirondack top (NEW) The classic traditional dreadnought. No one builds a finer traditional dreadnought than Huss & Dalton. This big old mahogany powerhouse, just like the rosewood model above, has true "vintage" tone. Big open and rumbling locomotive bass and strong trebles. A mighty fine flatpicking guitar. This one was also ordered with drop-in saddle instead of the standard cut thru saddle and without any aging toner so the beautiful Red spruce (and again it *is* beautiful) shines like the sun. Huge sound with great clarity. This is a GREAT guitar! This would be the center of a hot flatpicking session for sure. If you are looking for a great banjo-taming dreadnought and if you haven't tried a Huss & Dalton, your search is not yet complete. List
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Huss & Dalton TDM custom - Adirondack top (NEW) Another classic traditional dreadnought. No one builds a finer traditional dreadnought than Huss & Dalton. To this big old mahogany powerhouse, we added a tortoise bound headstock for a nice finished look. Other than that, this guitar does all the talking for itself. Classic mahogany dread. List
Price: $4,350
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Huss & Dalton OOO custom
Brazilian Rosewood and Adirodack spruce
(NEW) - The Huss & Dalton Brazilian Classic. No, this is not a golf tournament. Rather, this is yet another heartfelt attempt to re-live some of the glory that was this guitar which was our favorite Huss & Dalton earlier this year. This time we asked those very talented builders at Huss & Dalton to stay on the *conservative* side in terms of wood selection and binding but stay with master grade Red Spruce and VERY straight grain old harvest brick-orange Brazilian rosewood to build the ultimate "traditional" looking classic OOO guitar. While she looks traditional with all the appropriate "classic" touches: ivoroid binding on body, fretboard, AND headstock, herringbone purfling, custom 1 and 3/4" nut width, traditional square peghead, purfling between the ivoroid binding and the Brazilian headstock veneer, ebony pyramid bridge, and a classic torch on the headstock, she's got a modern radiused top and compensated bone saddle and bolt on neck and should survive to serve your grandchildren's children quite nicely. Waverly nickel tuners with ivoroid knobs. Standard pickguard. Looking for an heirloom grade guitar?? This guitar has amazing bass and volume - just a KILLER OOO!! Don't put this thing in a vault - play this guitar! The look of the Brazilian seems to match the serial # (1953) and looks like the high grade stuff we wish we'd see more often. Now we are conflicted. Which of the new Brazilian OOOs do we prefer? We prefer both, that's about as honest as we can say it. Why not buy both of the Brazilian OOOs, one for you, one for the missus?? Serial # 1935 for you and 1953 for her. A pair for eternity. List price: $7,950 This will be easy to sell but hard to let go. List
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Huss & Dalton OOO custom
Rosewood and Cedar
(NEW) - Same as the OO above - in OOO size. Rosewood and cedar - pefect together. $4,295 List
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Huss & Dalton OO-SP Custom Brazilian (NEW) - OK!! For three consecutive years, we've been proud to be Huss & Daltons' top dealer, and we feel we've really helped to put these great OO guitars on the map. We've seen them in just about every wood combination, and we feel there is no more impressive fingerstyle guitar made today. We've cooked up a dandy combination of custom features that might represent the ultimate OO guitar - VERY high grade Brazilian rosewood, European spruce top (braced for light gauge strings), 1 and 13/16" nut width, slotted tradtional square headstock with Martin style torch and bronze Waverly tuners with snakewood knobs. The entire guitar is bound in koa with additional purfling at the headstock. The European spruce top is very white, with no aging toner applied, and has an abalone rosette. This is a VERY exotic custom guitar - for the guy or gal who has a hankering for the ultimate heirloom grade parlor guitar. The ultimate gift. An AMAZING sounding small guitar, with waves of thick fundamental and lush overtone. Simply the finest OO guitar we've ever encountered. $8,750 List
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Huss & Dalton OO custom
Claro Walnut
Just arrived (NEW) We think Huss & Dalton consistently builds the finest OO guitar on the market today. Their other guitars are great, but their OOs are without peer. This is an extraordinary OO. We've had this same configuration before and it is special. Figured Claro walnut top back and sides, koa binding, pyramid bridge, herringbone rosette. This one has a 1 and 3/4" nut width and a solid headstock. The guitar is eye candy for sure, but it sounds even better than it looks. It takes everyone by surprise, and could become your favorite guitar. Great small blues, ragtime, or all around couch guitar. List
Price: $5,750
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Huss & Dalton OO-SP Custom
Rosewood with Sunburst
(NEW) - Sunburst 00-SP - a beauty! East Indian rosewood, sunburst Englemann spruce top, rosewood body binding and pyramid bridge. Cedar neck with 1 and 3/4" nut width, slotted headstock, Waverly tuners. These small guitars sound huge! Braced for light gauge strings - really a marvelous design. Just because their shop is nestled in the Blue Ridge mountains of VA, don't assume these guys only build bluegrass guitars - nobody builds a finer small body guitar than Huss and Dalton. This guitar will amaze you, cause you to question your tendency to play "big" guitars and incite you to start a OO collection. One in rosewood, one in Beeswing mahogany, one in koa, one in walnut, one in Australian blackwood.....don't let us stop you.... List
Price: $3,795
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Huss & Dalton OO Custom
Australian Blackwood
(NEW) - OO in highly figured Australian Blackwood with Englemann top and rosewood body binding, 1 and 7/8" nut width, diamond fretboard inlay, no pickguard, solid headstock with nickel Waverly tuners and ivoroid knobs. A special fingerstyle guitar and priced right. Australian blackwood has all the best qualities of koa at one third the price. 1385 List
Price: $3,855
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Huss & Dalton OO custom
Rosewood and Cedar
(NEW) - OK!! We've sold a bunch of these now and we are ready to say that this might be our favorite custom 12 fret OO guitar - the cedar topped EIRW OO with koa binding, koa rosette, and snakewood knobbed gold Waverly tuners. A thing of beauty and truely musical sounding in the best sense of the word. The radiused top and the Adirondack bracing combine to add some stiffness to the cedar, but the fundamental warmth of the wood is never lost. This one has the 1 and 13/16" nut width. $4,295 List
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Huss & Dalton CM
cutaway
(NEW) - A beautiful standard CM model in rosewood with a cutaway - this one with standard scale, Englemann spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut, CM scroll fretboard inlay at fret #12, clear pickguard, abalone rosette, and maple binding all around. Gold Gotoh tuenrs and tone until Tuesday. Nothing "standard" about the sound of these great guitars. Tired of your Taylor? Compare these with our Bourgeois JOMC or Goodall CJ - great fingerstyle guitars that can double as a strummer or flatpicker. You may not need a dreadnought! List
Price: $3,365
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Huss & Dalton Traditional OM custom
Mahogany/Adirondack
(NEW) - Feeding our current OM fixation, here comes the mahogany course. Classic, time tested, tried, true and "traditional" (flat top) OM in beautiful high grade Honduran mahogany and Adirondack spruce, with tortoise body bindings, 1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverly tuners. Classic looks - beautiful, and light like the old ones, (ah...remember the old ones??) plays like a dream. Really a fantastic sounding OM! List Price: $3,850 List
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Huss & Dalton OM Cutaway (SOLD) (NEW) Another impressive Huss & Dalton small body guitar - this one a cutaway in select AAA grade East Indian rosewood with a flawless Englemann spruce top, rosewood body binding, matching rosewood neck binding and gold Huss & Dalton tuners with ebony knobs and that user-friendly 1 and 3/4" nut width. A very *loud* and versatile OM cutaway guitar, equally suited for flatpicking or fingerstyle. 25.4" scale. Nice and loose and open with a real warm and woody voice. Beautiful to look at and magnificent sounding. Very nicely crafted cutaway - this guitar has a lot going for it, including a very low price! $3,695 SOLD
Huss & Dalton MJ (NEW) the standard MJ model - Mid Jumbo (non-cutaway) in figured maple with radiused Sitka top, rosewood body binding, and maple neck. These are great open sounding country blues or strumming guitars - huge clean sound with a certain dark sophisticated and articulate thump. A maple sub woofer perfectly EQ'd. Stunning maple, great tone! List
Price: $4,150
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Huss & Dalton MJC (NEW) the standard MJC model - East Indian rosewood, sitka top. 16" mid jumbo with cutaway. An AMW shop favorite, a guitar that does everything well. Flatpick, strum, fingerstyle. Almost every one of these we sell ends up with a pickup installed and is used as a gigging guitar. A favorite of songwriters and singers. BIG sound! List
Price: $4,200
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Used Huss & Dalton Guitars
Huss & Dalton Traditional dreadnought
Brazilian rosewood
Just arrived (USED) Huss & Dalton have established themselves as top builders and this traditional dreadnought is a perfect example. AAA grade Brazilian rosewood and wide grain Adirondack spruce trimmed with herringbone purfling. If you are looking for a modern guitar with a powerful bluegrass sound, here she is. It's the classic "herringbone" guitar you've always dreamed of owning. This guitar has a GREAT wide open sound. It is locomotive loud and it has bluegrass ka-changg like a pre-war. It has the vintage profile neck (2 and 9/32" saddle spacing and 1 and 3/4" nut width.)The guitar is two years old but could almost pass for new, but it sounds old. $5,750
Huss & Dalton OO-SP
custom
Just arrived (USED) Of all the builders we carry, we feel Huss & Dalton does the best job of the classic 12 fret OO model, and this one is a perfect example. OO in rosewood with a Sitka spruce top, slotted headstock with torch inlay, and Greven pickguard added. This great little OO can go fingerstyle blues, even old-timey with a flatpick and not get cranky. Optional 1 and 3/4" nut width makes it user-friendly. Standard 2 and 5/16" saddle spacing, pyramid bridge, and upgraded curly KOA binding and the bronze 3 on-a-tree Waverly tuners. Very nice! Traded here on a Bourgeois guitar. $2,950
Huss & Dalton DM
K&K pickup
(USED) - A particularly good sounding Huss & Dalton DM. A mahogany dreadnought with radiused sitka top and curly maple bindings. This one equipped with a K&K active pickup. Clean as a whistle, this will make a fantastic gigging guitar for someone who wants an extremely versatile (flatpick, fingerstyle, strumming) guitar. Great price for a superb guitar with a GREAT sounding pickup. SOLD
Acoustic Music Works is proud to be among the top dealers worldwide for Bourgeois Guitars. We've personally owned, coveted, and handled a lot of very special Dana Bourgeois instruments over the years, and we are thrilled to have his fine guitars in our shop. He's got access to some great wood, and his prices are comparatively low for such unique, handsome, and magnificent sounding guitars. We respect him and the team he has assembled, we love his guitars, and we will be doing what we do best: custom orders and cherry-picking some mighty special instruments. We invite you to join in the fun! Note: We joined Dana at Winter 2007 NAMM Show where he presented us the Top Dealer award for 2006 (see below) - Dana always has some of the most impressive NAMM special guitars in the place, and we generally snag three or four very impressive and unique guitars at the show. Inquire early and often and we'll find you a treasure!



Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood Soloist (NEW) Dana Bourgeois' classic fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. A world class fingerstyle guitar. This is a fine Brazilian rosewood Soloist with a high grade European spruce top. This will be our last Bourgeois Brazilian Soloist at the "old" 2007 pricing. Signigicant price increase for Brazilian rosewood went into effect April 2008. Next one will list at $8195.00 $7,695 list for this one, and it is a GREAT one. SOLD
Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood Soloist (NEW) Dana Bourgeois' classic fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. A world class fingerstyle guitar. This is a fine Brazilian rosewood Soloist with a high grade European spruce top. This will be our last Bourgeois Brazilian Soloist at the "old" 2007 pricing. Signigicant price increase for Brazilian rosewood went into effect April 2008. Next one will list at $8195.00 $7,695 list for this one, and it is a GREAT one. SOLD (SB) SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage OMC
Brazilian Rosewood
Just arrived (NEW) Vintage OMC with AAA grade Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce. This guitar is just slightly heavier than the Soloist above and is extremely versatile - equally suited for fingerstyle or flatpicking. Great warm sound with a very responsive Adirondack top. A magnificent guitar at a superb price. List price $6,995 $6,295
Bourgeois JOMC Jumbo Soloist
Brazilian Rosewood
In transit - NAMM 09 Guitar (NEW)A new take on Dana Bourgeois' classic fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. First of its kind, this one is a "jumbo" version of the Soloist, so it is a Brazilian JOMC built to Soloist specs. A world class guitar. A fine Brazilian rosewood JOMC-Soloist with a high grade Adirondack spruce top. Dana took the spruce for the top of this guitar from the same stash that provided the top for Cody Kilby's new Boureois guitar. This guitar created quite a stir at the NAMM Show, with Scott Fore proclaiming it "the most versatile guitar in the Bourgeois booth." Great price! $7,195 Though a custom for the NAMM Show, (with Ziricote body binding, gold plated Waverly tuners, Brazilian rosewood butt wedge, bone pins, and Soloist heel inlay) Dana is referring to it as a regular model - with this being the first "Jumbo Soloist" INQUIRE SOLD
Bourgeois Custom JOMC - Claro Walnut (NEW) We've had this model before and we've just been waiting quite some time as Dana hunts for just the *right* set of premium claro walnut (a very exotic and beautiful wood) for this guitar. Tonally, walnut falls somewhere between rosewood and mahogany. A little warm, a little bright, with some very subtle depth of overtone. Most people have never played a GREAT walnut guitar, and don't know what to expect. I am here to tell you, walnut can be very special in the right hands, and Dana has great hands. This is a marvelous fingerstyle guitar that is not afraid of a flatpick. Square headstock with Brazilian rosewood overlay, Waverly tuners with ebony knobs, tortoise binding, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nice tall compensated saddle, abalone rosette, micro dot fret markers, and a KILLER Englemann top! But just look at the walnut! $4,450 ON HOLD (JZ) ON HOLD
Bourgeois Jumbo OM
Walnut and Western Red Cedar
Hide Glue
(NEW) Look at this sweet thing! A walnut guitar with a Western Red Cedar top! We've always loved this combination for DADGAD and open tunings. It works fine in standard tuning as well of course. Great warm sound with a beautiful woods and that little extra something that comes from hide glue construction. A magnificent guitar at a superb price. No upcharge for the walnut or the hide glue - a tremdous value in a unique guitar with a big voice. List price $3,795 $3,415
Bourgeois Brazilian Signature D (NEW) Dana Bourgeois has found us another very special set of Brazilian roswood - this set is the extreme black stuff with a lot of coloration - we call it "ugly" wood that rings all afternoon. We thought it appropriate to use it on a Signature D since it is a special set. The result is an *exceptionally* fine sounding Brazilian dreadnought - very light weight and full sounding. $7695. This will be our last Bourgeois Brazilian D at the old pricing. Signigicant price increase for Brazilian rosewood going into effect May 2008. INQUIRE $6,925
Bourgeois Very Vintage Country Boy
Adirondack
Hide Glue
Coming Soon (NEW) OK, We've been having so much fun with these hide glue Country Boys. Here's a third variation on the theme: This wil be a "Very Vintage Mahogany" (as introduced by Dana Bourgeois at the NAMM Show)that will have 1 and 3/4" nut width, 2 and 5/16" saddle spacing, ebony body binding, ebony butt wedge, mammoth ivory nut, hide glue...etc. This is a Bluegrass flatpicking machine. Dana will also be offering this model with a varnish finish - the varnish will be a $1400 upcharge. This one has his standard thin finish and will have a list price of $4,295 $3,865
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe
Adirondack top (natural)
(NEW) The always popular Country Boy Deluxe - in natural finish. Always a special guitar. Tastefully done as always with fine grain Red spruce and figured mahogany. Light and perfectly balanced dreadnought for a player who appreciates subtlety and finesse. Not the loudest or boomiest dreadnought in the store, but it would be hard to point to a more perfectly balanced one or one with better clarity and fit and finish. Sweet sounding easy playing mahogany dreadnought for someone with exquisite taste, like you perhaps? $4195.00 Nice to have a natural top and a sunburst to choose from (see below). List
Price: $4,295
Our
Price: $3,865
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe
Adirondack top (pale sunburst)
(NEW) An extremely handsome Deluxe Country Boy with figured mahogany D in Dana's superb pale sunburst. List: $4,645 Our price: $ 4,180 We've seen a lot of these this come and go this year, but we always get excited when the big brown truck brings us another. Deluxe indeed with figured wood, rosewood binding, and gold hardware. Bryan Sutton really helped put these Country Boys in the public eye. One of the most balanced and pleasant sounding flatpicking guitars on the market, with a GREAT neck. Plays like butter and sounds magnificent. $4645.00 Nice! List
Price: $4,645
Our
Price: $4,180
Bourgeois Advanced Slope D - custom
Cocobolo
(NEW) Dana Bourgeois Advanced Slope D. Custom ordered by us - and held back to be a NAMM Show display item. Cocobolo rosewood and select bearclaw sitka spruce with a dark sunburst finish. Snakehead headstock, Waverly tuners, ivoroid binding, floral inlay. Another fabulous guitar from Dana Bourgeois. Incredible appearance, nicely weighted cocobolo (very dense stuff) and wonderfully alive, open, and balanced tone. A perfect companion if your other guitar is a mahogany D. A perfect companion, period. If you haven't played a Bourgeois guitar for a while, you owe it to yourself to try his new guitars! *Killer* guitar! List
Price: $4,895
Our
Price: $4,405
Bourgeois Advanced Slope D - sunburst (NEW) Dana Bourgeois Advanced Slope D. East Indian rosewood and Adirondack spruce with dark sunburst finish. Snakehead headstock, Waverly tuners, ivoroid binding, floral inlay. ($4,495) List
Price: $4,495
Our
Price: $4,045
Bourgeois Custom Advanced Slope D
Premium Mad Rose
Just arrived and just killer - (NEW) Custom Advanced Slope D/ Premium Madagascar Rosewood and Premium Red "Adirondack" Spruce. Square head stock with fancy figured rosewood veneer and MadRose butt wedge. Dana Bourgeois Signature backstrip. Triple bound Ivoroid binding on body, neck and headstock. 1 23/32 nut width. Bourgeois Floral Inlay. Ivoroid Waverlies. Bone bridge & end pins. Premium Bourgeois pickguard. This would be an ideal match for the maple slope D above. Killer set of MadRose. killer sunburst, killer tone. List: $5,495. List
Price: $5,495
Our
Price: $4,945
Bourgeois Slope D Custom - mahogany SS Just arrived! (NEW) New model. J-50 style short scale slope D. Just a rippin' loose feel with warm DEEP *powerful* and *open* sound. A guitar does not, should not, have to feel tight to be loud. A shorter scale length reduces the left hand reaches, reduces the overall tension of the instrument, and this lower tension allows the top of the guitar to move more freely, and can actually produce more sound. Don't take our word for it - drive over and *try* this guitar. This guitar has enhanced bass response and superb balance in addition to all the *detail* we expect from one of Dana's slope D's. A VERY impressive guitar. Snakehead headstock, Waverly tuners, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Master grade Adirondack top, ivoroid binding, micro-dot inlay, custom tigerstripe pickguard, SHORT SCALE. A prize built for the NAMM Show - and just plain cool. List
Price: $4,095
Our
Price: $3,685
Bourgeois Custom OM
Pao rosewood
Just arrived (NEW) A custom Vintage OM with 60 year old Pao rosewood back and sides, with premium Adirondack top, black/white top border, fancy cocobolo binding, 1 and 3/4" nut width, pyramid bridge. With the rapidly diminishing availability of Brazilian rosewood, all the builders are looking for appropriate substitutes for their premium guitars. About Pao rosewood, Dana says "Pao Rosewood is an african wood that looks a bit like Honduran Rosewood. Tonally it's in the same general category as Brazilian, Madagascar, Honduran Rosewood and Cocobolo. Within each of these species there is considerable variation in tone qualities, with condiderable overlapping between species. A good set of Pao can sound a lot like Brazilian Rosewood, or can have something unique that is rarely found in Brazilian." The first one of these was shown at IBMA and drew these comments: "This guitar was the sleeper of the show. You might imagine at a Bluegrass Show, an OM wouldn't get much attention but the 60+ year old West African Pao Rosewood set used on this guitar made it LOUD and rich and one of the best OM's we've heard. Dana has a few sets of this fine *old* wood. The sound is full of detail without being boomy at all - Brazilian style overtone with a thick sustain. SOLD (AD) Thanks Art! SOLD
Bourgeois A-350 archtop (NEW) Dana Bourgeois archtop - another trip to Guitar Fantasy Camp with Mr. Bourgeois. These are always amazing - sweet! List
Price: $6,795
Our
Price: $6,115
Bourgeois Jumbo OM cutaway
Rosewood/sitka
(NEW) We never feel that we have a complete Bourgeois inventory without one of these super versatile jumbo OM cutaway Dana Bourgeois guitars. His own design, this one a very nice EIRW with *premium* sitka spruce top, abalone rosette, and that purrrfect 1 and 23/32" nut width. Nickel Waverly open back tuners, Greven Tor-tis pickguard, ivoroid bridge pins, snakehead headstock) Flatpick or fingerstyle, this thing has the full spectrum covered. Skip the dreadnought, go for the jumbo OM. Say goodbye to the pain in your shoulder that the dread can cause. List Price: $3,795 List
Price: $3,995
Our
Price: $3,595
Bourgeois Slope D Custom - mahogany SS
Sunburst snakehead
(NEW) New model. J-50 style short scale slope D. Just a rippin' loose feel with warm DEEP *powerful* and *open* sound. A guitar does not, should not, have to feel tight to be loud. A shorter scale length reduces the left hand reaches, reduces the overall tension of the instrument, and this lower tension allows the top of the guitar to move more freely, and can actually produce more sound. Don't take our word for it - drive over and *try* this guitar. This guitar has enhanced bass response and superb balance in addition to all the *detail* we expect from one of Dana's slope D's. A VERY impressive guitar. Snakehead headstock, Waverly tuners, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Master grade Adirondack top, ivoroid binding, micro-dot inlay, custom tigerstripe pickguard, SHORT SCALE, and sunburst! . List
Price: $4,195
Our
Price: $3,775
Bourgeois Slope D Custom - mahogany SS
Sunburst
(NEW) New model. J-50 style short scale slope D. Just a rippin' loose feel with warm DEEP *powerful* and *open* sound. A guitar does not, should not, have to feel tight to be loud. Another VERY impressive guitar. SQUARE headstock, Waverly tuners, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Master grade Adirondack top, ivoroid binding, micro-dot inlay, custom tigerstripe pickguard, SHORT SCALE, and sunburst! . SOLD
Bourgeois Lefty Advanced Slope D
MadRose
Adirondack
Just arrived (NEW) Special Order - a LEFTY slope D from Dana Bourgeois in Madagascar Rosewood and Adirondack spruce with one of Dana's great dark sunbursts. Just for fun, to take off some weight andd add some sparkle, we went with Brazilian rosewood on the bridge and fretboard. Nice touch! Nice bearclaw figure in the top - pics don't do it justice. All this with a list price of $5,895. Great guitar - great price. HOLD (RW) RESERVED
Used Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois Maple DB Jumbo Just arrived (USED) Dana Bourgeois introduced his "Petite Jumbo" a few years ago at NAMM. Now called the "DBJ," it is a 16" small jumbo with medium depth sides, unique and subtle bracing modifications, 1 and 3/4" nut width, and 2 and 5/16" saddle spacing. According to Dana, the DBJ is designed for a "serious fingerstyle player with light to medium touch...capable of generating power and volume." This is a very unique custom model in very high grade maple, Italian spruce, and full body sunburst. This guitar had a list price new new of $6,500. It is in very close to mint condition, sounds fabulous, and is priced to sell quickly at $4,450. A very special guitar. $4,450
Bourgeois Custom Slope D
Banjo Killer
Pale Sunburst
Just arrived (USED) One of our original BANJO KILLER slope D guitars, #20 of the first limited run of 30, label signed by Bryan Sutton, celebrating Dana Bourgeois' first 30 years of guitar building. This was a custom model of the limited series done for us in sunburst (one of three done in pale sunburst)and has been played well for two years. Highly figured premium grade mahogany, bearclaw sitka spruce, double scalloped Banjo Killer bracing, Brazilian rosewood fretboard and bridge, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. Standard strap button installed, ebony bridge pins, 1 and 23/32" nut width. Great loud guitar, broken in, ready to kill more banjos. Updated pics shown here. $3,250 - ON CONSIGNMENT (MM) SOLD
Bourgeois Slope D custom
Mahogany Adirondack
Short Scale
Hide Glue
Just arrived (USED) One of the newer (SHORT SCALE) mahogany slope D guitars from Dana Bourgeois, this one a custom model with a firestripe pickguard and square headstock, and built with hide glue ($400 upcharge for hide glue). Great sound, light, and woody with lots of detail in the tone. Clean as a whistle - could pass for new. It has that extra "something" that hide glue brings to the table. Very fine guitar. Nice! Conigned here by MM - she gets all the best ones, y'know. (SOLD) Thanks Aaron. SOLD
Bourgeois Slope D custom
Mahogany Adirondack
Sunburst
Just arrived (USED) They say the sky is falling. We can see it leaning, but it does not appear to have fallen yet. The consignments are coming fast and furious, but you know we cherry pick only the finest stuff. If it aint great, we don't want it. Well, if yoiu've ever thought about owning a mahogany slope D from Dana Bourgeois, this one should grab your attention. It's a custom guitar with a special dark sunburst and black binding. It's been PLAYED, and has a great soundiung (Baggs) pickup in it and some capo marks on the back of the neck. It is a great example of Dana's most popular slope D. Here on consignment from Hawaii. A great player, with big articulate voice. It is a unique guitar with a BIG voice. Fresh pics. $2,950
Bourgeois A-350 (USED) Oh my! A *superb* A-350 Dana Bourgeois archtop in violin finish sunburst. Generally, we can only count on one of these per year - and it's always a VERY good day when one arrives. We sold this guitar new last year, and it still looks new. Beautiful in every way. An extremely fine instrument, worthy of the finest player. You perhaps? $4,400
Bourgeois Vintage D cutaway custom
Prototype
Just arrived (USED) This is a very interesting guitar. It was built in 2003 as a prototype for the Doc Watson model (Doc is now playing a Bourgeois cutaway dreadnought that Ricky Skaggs bought him for his 80th birthday) and then sold at the 2003 Summer Namm Show as a NAMM guitar. It's a great guitar and the addition of a cutaway is a handy and unusual feature for a high end dreadnought (try to get Dana to build another one, no thank you!) but the key to the sound is the Honduran rosewood. We find Honduran, even moreso than Brazilian, to provide a crispness, clarity and volume that crosspicking flatpickers really like. We've had several Honduran rosewood Huss & Dalton guitars. This is our first Honduran Bourgeois and it is exceptional. This used guitar is in near mint condition and is set up with low action and light strings. It really rips, and it costs less than half as much as a Brazilian guitar! This is a great bluegrass guitar for a modern lead style player. It cuts like mahogany and reverberates like rosewood. Seriously. SOLD
Acoustic Music Works is an authorized dealer for Goodall Guitars These are marvelous instruments handcrafted by James Goodall in Hawaii and feature some of the most exotic tonewoods, finest tone, and best fit and finish in the industry. It's always a good day when the brown truck pulls up with boxes from Hawaii. Life is good.
Goodall KJK
Royal Hawaiian - all koa - Jumbo
(NEW) James Goodall all koa Jumbo in AAAA grade woods with 25.5" scale and 1 and 3/4" nut width built display at the 2006 NAMM Show in Los Angeles. Shipped here straight from the NAMM Show. Where on earth did James Goodall find a koa tree big enough to build a JUMBO all koa guitar?? We played this guitar at NAMM and it really floored us. Signature Goodall tone: rich, lush, and open. Sparkling overtones with fullness. We love koa guitars, and the koa on this guitar is the stuff of dreams. Inquire List price: $ 7,799 $7,019
Goodall ZCJC
Ziricote Concert Jumbo
Redwood Top
(NEW) James Goodall Ziricote Concert Jumbo Cutaway in AAA grade woods (top is AAA grade REDWOOD) with 25.5" scale and 1 and 3/4" nut width. A lightly built (braced for lights only) impressive, dazzling, enormous sounding fingerstyle guitar. Maple binding and abalone rosette really set off the Redwood top. All the sensitivity of a classical in a very robust steel string. Nothing else quite like it here. One of a kind, and what a guitar!!! List price: $ 6,500 Our Price:
$5,850
Goodall TMhOM
Trad OM
Mahogany
(NEW) James Goodall Trad mahogany OM in AAA grade woods (top is ADIRONDACK) with 25.5" scale and 1 and 3/4" nut width. A lightly built and powerful guitar that flatpicks extremely well and also goes fingerstyle when asked. Maple binding and herringbone rosette really dress up the "traditional" look. Great sounding guitar! A mahogany/adirondack comfortable mid-sized guitar poised to make you forget your dreadnought. Our Price:
$4,610
Goodall KCJ
Koa Concert Jumbo
(NEW) James Goodall Concert Jumbo with 25.5" scale. To us, the "CJ" is the definitive Goodall fingerstyle guitar. There is that unmistakable open voice and rich abundant overtone. The "CJ" (Concert Jumbo) in our opinion, is the definitive Goodall model for fingerstyle playing. We spent some time discussing this one with Jean Goodall, and after some informed inspiration, we have spec'd this guitar with the combination of koa back and sides and some *Master Grade* "stiff" Englemann spruce for the top to make an outstanding strumming and fingerstyle guitar. The versatile "stiff" Englemann top allows for a more aggressive touch when needed (and even medium gauge strings if you prefer) so this guitar can cover a lot of territory. A thinking person's guitar! List price: $ 4,995 Our Price:
$4,495
Goodall MhS
Mahogany Standard
(NEW) James Goodall Standard The Standard series, with its graceful curving lines, is a larger-bodied guitar with a clarity that is uncanny! The amazingly rich, powerful bass and midrange is blended with a brilliant treble shimmering with harmonic overtones. Arguably the most balanced guitar he makes, James feels that the Goodall Standard is the crowning achievement of his luthierie career. Approximately the same cavity size as the dreadnought guitar, that is where the resemblance stops. More than one musician has commented that "this guitar makes others sound like they are stuffed full of cotton." This one is Honduran mahogany with rosewood binding and AAA grade Enlgemann spruce. Nice combination for warmth, balance, and charm. Fullness with clarity. A beauty. List price: $ 3,895 Our Price:
$3,500
Goodall Traditional OM
Rosewood/Sitka
(NEW) James Goodall Traditional Orchestra model (25.5" scale with 1 and 3/4" nut width) Recent arrival - AAA grade East Indian rosewood, AAA grade "bearclaw" Sitka spruce top, herringbone rosette and purfling, curly maple binding, nickel Waverlies with ivoroid knobs. American Vintage Series case. These loud and magnificent deep OM guitars and are now the best selling models in the Goodall line, and understandably so. "Traditional OM" is a bit of a misnomer. The Goodall Trad OM is more like a mini slope D. It will make you forget your dreadnought. For those who think a standard OM is small and boxy sounding, and a dread is too big, we present this dark and powerful bearclaw TROMMY. List price: $ 4,450 Our Price:
$3,995
Goodall MhP-12S
12 fret mahogany slothead parlor
(NEW) James Goodall Honduran mahogany parlor guitar (12 fret, 25" scale with 1 and 7/8" nut width) with AAA grade Sitka spruce top, curly maple body bindings, abalone rosette, clear pickguard, ebony fretboard with MOP notched square fretboard inlay and ebony headstock veneer, satin finish neck, curly maple bound slotted headstock with Waverly bronze patina tuners and ivoroid knobs. Light as a feather, perfectly balanced. Sweet little slothead! Cedar Creek custom case included - List price: $4,395 Our Price:
$3,955
Goodall KPC-14
14 fret koa/cedar cutaway parlor
(NEW) James Goodall AAA grade curly koa 14 fret cutaway parlor guitar with matching AAA grade Western Red Cedar top and ebony headstock veneer. (25" scale with 1 and 3/4" nut width) with maple body bindings, ebony fretboard, gold Gotoh 510 mini tuners with ebony buttons, fancy Paua shell rosette, and diamond fretboard inlay. Marvelous small guitar and just plain cool. We've been looking for the right OO, Baby, or parlor on which to combine a cedar top and a cutaway for a serious fingerstyle player. Don't know why we waited this long - seems kind of obvious, now, to make it a koa and Red cedar Goodall. Just arrived and just as we had hoped, this guitar has that perfect *James Goodall* blend of controlled openness and richness mixed with the warmth and sustain of cedar and the midrange-centric punch of koa. A very impressive guitar with lots of visual and tonal character. If you are looking for a *small* sounding guitar, don't buy this one, as it sounds anything but small! List price: $ 5,895 Our Price:
$5,305
Goodall MJ-12
Maple 12 string Jumbo
Just arrived (NEW) Ahhh...Goodall guitars. Another Goodall maple 12 string! List price: $5450.00 The big maple 12-banger features master grade spruce with curly koa binding, abalone rosette, 25.5" scale, 1 and 7/8" nut width, Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony knobs, and clear pickguard. We feel Goodall builds the finest sounding 12-string available today. Wow!, that's all. Sounds like a piano. Our Price:
$4,905
Goodall RS-12
Rosewood 12 string standard
(NEW) Ahhh...Goodall guitars. You know how they sound. Some folks say James Goodall's 6 string guitars sound like 12-strings. So..given that what does a Goodall 12 string sound like? We can only imagine! Just came back from NAMM where we commisserated with a few other Goodall dealers and enthusiasts and here's what we've decided to do - build another 12-banger, this one a James Goodall 12 string *Standard* in East Indian rosewood and master grade sitka spruce (talk about a church organ!) with curly koa binding, abalone rosette, 25.5" scale, 1 and 7/8" nut width, Gotoh 510 tuners with ebony knobs, and clear pickguard. wanna play?? List price: $4850.00 Our Price:
$4,365
Used Goodall Guitars
Goodall TCOM
Cocobolo Trad OM cutaway
Just Arrived ...and just AMAZING (USED) Perhaps the finest sounding Goodall OM we have ever sold - a traditional OM with back and sides of figured Cocobolo and a top of *Master grade Adirondack spruce*. This guitar was built for display at the 2007 Summer NAMM Show in Austin and is a traditional 25.5" scale OM with 1 and 3/4" nut width, white maple binding, Waverly tuners with ebony knobs, Cocobolo peghead veneer, and OM bent cutaway. Yes, I am going to going to go out on a limb and call it The BEST sounding Goodall OM guitar we have ever heard.. Impeccably crafted. Flatpickable, robust, drop dead gorgeous, one of the finest guitars in the shop. Includes high grade Ameritage case with humidity control. No kidding, an extraordinary guitar. ON CONSIGNMENT $4,950
Goodall TMhB
Traditional Quilted Mahogany Baritone
(NEW) James Goodall Baritone guitar with 28" scale. 1 and 3/4" nut width, herringbone trim, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. Superb AAA grade quilted mahogany and AAA grade ADIRONDACK spruce, maple binding. Nice TKL American Vintage Series case. Wow, pure vibrancy and depth. You won't believe the tone - wide open, deep, rumbling, authoritative, dark, and throaty, but not the slighest bit unwieldy or unlcear. With regular medium gauge strings it can be tuned one whole step down to D-G-C-F-A-D and drop tuned from there. Add a capo at the 2nd fret and it's a regular guitar. How low can you go? List price: $ 5,500 This "new" guitar has been in the shop for a while, and has picked up some normal shop wear, so we feel it fair to offer it as a "used" (shop worn) guitar - at a fair "used" price. Check out Mary Flower getting the low-down on the Goodall baritone. $3,750
Goodall KPK
14 fret all koa parlor
(NEW) James Goodall curly koa 14 fret parlor guitar with matching AA grade curly koa top with ebony headstock veneer. (25" scale with 1 and 3/4" nut width) with rosewood body bindings, ebony fretboard, chrome Gotoh 510 mini tuners with ebony buttons, abalone rosette, and diamond fretboard inlay. Marvelous small guitar and just plain cool. I have been searching for an excuse to build this all-koa warm lap piano. Well, I found the nerve, now I need YOU to stand up and do your part so I can enjoy it vicariously. What a sweet sounding guitar! And what a great price. Check out the fresh pics - dig the one with Steve Gilchrist enjoying the new parlor! List price: $ 5,275 This "new" guitar has been in the shop for a while, and has picked up some normal shop wear, so we feel it fair to offer it as a "used" (shop worn) guitar - at a fair "used" price. Our Price:
$3,750
Goodall RGC
Rosewood Grand Concert
(SOLD) (USED) Ahhh...Goodall guitars. You know how they sound. Here's a 1997 model - well aged but meticulously kept - rosewood Grand Concert model with koa binding (here on consignment) - a very strong sounding well aged Goodall grand concert guitar. Pickup installed - passive undersaddle type. Original case. SOLD
Acoustic Music Works is an authorized dealer for George Lowden Guitars of County Down in Northern Ireland. This is an instrument line that folks have been asking us to go after, so go after it we have! We have just met George and we were charmed. He's kind of an Irish Bill Collings, and we mean that with all due respect and affection. We don't go into new ventures lightly. This is a very exciting development for us; these are very fine and unique guitars and we're extremely proud to offer them. Keep your eye on this section for some very exciting Lowden guitars!
Lowden O-35
Quilted maple
Western Red Cedar
Just arrived (NEW) No one does maple like Lowden!! George Lowden reserves the finest highly figured exotic tonewoods for his 35 series. This guitar features *Master* grade quilted maple back and sides with a select Western Red Cedar top. His original (and legendary) "O" body delivers a very loud and full sound but is capable of great subtlety as well. Perfectly balanced, with exceptional clarity. 1 and 3/4" nut width is standard and the O-35 maple features sycamore bindings, Brazilian rosewood bridge, gold Gotoh 510 tuners, 5 piece (mahogany/rosewood/walnut) neck and TUSQ nut and bone saddle. The MAPLE on this guitar is positively three dimensional - nothing else like it in the shop. Best we've ever seen! Fine wood and great tone out of this meticulously crafted guitar. List: $5,190 SOLD
Lowden S35-X (NEW) - Here's a guitar we spotted at the NAMM Show and we just had to have it. When you see the pictures you'll understand. George Lowden reserves the finest highly figured exotic tonewoods for his 35 series. This guitar features Master grade Claro Walnut back and sides with Lowden'sselect Redwood top. The small "S" body echoes the shape and feel of a classical guitar and features a 1 and 3/4" nut width on a 14 11/16" (lower bout) box and a 630 mm. (24 51/64") scale length. A surprisingly resonant and powerful small guitar with great sparkle and depth. The tuners are gold Gotoh 510s (of course) and the Lowdens come with those great Hiscox Deluxe Liteflite cases. We're pleased and proud to announce that we're offering Lowden Guitars and this is a delicious first offering indeed! Handmade in Ireland - and posessed of great uniquness and charm. List: $5,500 Our Price:
$4,950
Lowden F-35
Koa
(NEW) George Lowden reserves the finest highly figured exotic tonewoods for his 35 series. This guitar features Master grade figured Hawaiian koa back and sides with a select sitka spruce top. The curvacious mid-size "F" body features a 1 and 3/4" nut width on a 15 7/8" (lower bout) 4 23/32" depth box and a 650 mm. (25 19/32") scale length. The F-35 Koa features sycamore bindings, Brazilian rosewood bridge, gold Gotoh 510 tuners, 5 piece (mahogany/rosewood/walnut) neck and TUSQ nut and bone saddle. The satin finish does not show the figure in the koa that one might see in a gloss finish guitar, but oh boy, it's there! Fine wood and great tone out of this meticulously crafted guitar. List: $5,500 Our Price:
$4,950
Lowden O-12
Mahogany
(NEW) The Lowden "O" body is the big boy. The lower bout is a full 420 mm. (16 17/32") and body depth is 125 mm. (4 59/64") making this an impressive jumbo guitar. This *loud* and full sounding guitar features American mahogany back and sides with a select sitka spruce top. The O-12 features rosewood bindings, Brazilian rosewood bridge, gold Gotoh 503 tuners, 5 piece (mahogany/rosewood) neck and TUSQ nut and bone saddle. Incredible volume and woody tone out of this meticulously crafted big boy. Very attractively priced at $3,815 list Our Price:
$3,450
Lowden F-25
Rosewood and Cedar
(NEW) This guitar features fine East Indian rosewood back and sides and a great Cedar top. The curvacious mid-size "F" body features a 1 and 3/4" nut width on a 15 7/8" (lower bout) 4 23/32" depth box and a 650 mm. (25 19/32") scale length. The guitar has mahogany binding, five piece mahogany neck with rosewood laminates, brazilian rosewood bridge and gold Gotoh tuners with ebony knobs. Magnificent sound. Hiscox case. Very attractively priced at $3,890 list. Our Price:
$3,500
Used Lowden Guitars
Lowden F-25 c
Rosewood and Cedar
Cutaway
(SOLD) (USED) A Lowden guitar, serial # 12030, built in N. Ireland. This guitar features fine East Indian rosewood back and sides and a great Cedar top. The curvacious mid-size "F" body features a 1 and 3/4" nut width on a 15 7/8" (lower bout) 4 23/32" depth box and a 650 mm. (25 19/32") scale length. This guitar has the odd distiction of being incorrectly labeled an "O-25" on the internal label, but is clearly an F model (and the accompanying documents from Lowden also clearly specify "F-25".) The guitar has mahogany binding, cutaway, five piece neck and gold hardware with amber knobs. Very nice. Lists new for $4400 Great sounding and great playing Lowden guitar. Very nice condition. Nice price. Original (Hiscox) case. SOLD
Lowden S-25
Cedar top
(USED)(Exc.) Great looking and great sounding Lowden S-25. Serial # 12832. Handcrafted in Northern Ireland. A very popular model, in great condition, and priced to sell quickly. Plays like butter. Flatpick, fingerstyle, DADGAD. Has an undersaddle pickup and endpin jack (active pickup). And like all Lowdens, comes with the nice Hiscox case. Great low price for this fine handcrafted guitar. SOLD quickly. SOLD
Beard Road-O-Phonic Just arrived (NEW) Call it a travel dobro. Call it a lap steel. Call it a Lap Dawg. Call it a screaming little reso-phonic machine. Includes a dual pickup system: Fishman acoustic pickup and a Lace Sensor magnetic. 23" scale, 9" reso cone. Big sound in a small package. Sounds great acoustically and is reasonably loud as a travel/practice instrument but is designed to be plugged in. So plug it in already! This one is a custom model in fancy quilted sapele mahogany with shadeburst finish. Includes high quality shaped wooden hardshell case. Just plain fun. Insanely cool and a bargain at $1500 $1,500
Beard Road-O-Phonic Just arrived (NEW) Call it a travel dobro. Call it a lap steel. Call it a Lap Dawg. Same as above - this one in maple. Includes high quality shaped wooden hardshell case. Insanely cool and a bargain at $1500 $1,500
Beard Model E
Maple
(NEW)The Big Daddy. The Beard model E in maple. Our best seller. They generally sell very quickly. $3,700
Beard Model E
Quilted Maple custom
Just arrived (NEW) Something we just could not pass up: a custom Beard model E in fabulous heavily quilted premium maple with paua shell inlay. Very loud, maybe slightly less fierce than the standard flame maple (the quilted maple is slightly softer wood than the flamed maple). An heirloom grade instrument. The pics hardly do it justice - the guitar is simply fabulous. Color wise, the stain is slightly darker than the normal maple stain. $4,000
Beard Model E
Mahogany
(NEW) Moe's House of Mahogany presents the bad boy, the Beard model E in mahogany. Moe's personal favorite Beard model. A little sweeeter and woodier sounding than maple, with plenty of warmth. $3,700
Beard Mike Auldridge Just arrived (NEW) The Beard Mike Auldridge model, this one in Red Sunset finish - Beard's best selling model built of vintage Finland Birch, with that famous depth and sustain that the model is known for - and this one sounds particularly good. $3,700
Beard Jerry Douglas Signature Model
Squareneck
(NEW) Also announced at NAMM 2008, this will be a regular production model from the good folks at Beard Guitars. We've got two coming from the first batch. Our first one is # 29. The body is a modified Beard E-style of solid mahogany with a quilted mahogany top cap, open body chamber and baffle, spider bridge & Beard spun cone for that classic Beard open-body resonator guitar sound. Other features include square profile mahogany neck, flame maple bindings, custom design coverplate, dual screened soundholes, ebony fretboard with custom inlay pattern & "Jerry Douglas" signature inlay, Waverly open-gear tuners, chrome plated hardware and deluxe custom Cedar Creek hardshell case. These guitars sound magnificent and should be extremely popular! Read more about it right here. $5,250
Beard Artist Guitar IV - "North and South"
Roundneck
(NEW) - We purchased this one of a kind custom guitar at the NAMM Show. This is the ART IV guitar - fourth in a series by Paul Beard and Rick Parks. Rick Parks is a professional artist and composite/sketch consultant for the FBI. Lately Rick has turned his talents toward drawing images on collectible instruments for the likes of National, Huss & Dalton, Bear Creek Hawaiian Guitars, and the Beard Resonators. His art guitars invlove drawing on the raw wood with pastel pencil and then applying a protective top coat of finish. This guitar features a civil war theme with Generals Lee and Grant depicted on the front with special North and South symbols in the coverplate. Aside from being a stunning work of art, this guitar features master grade materials (burled walnut) and gold plating and the very best of everything. Tonally, this guitar is a knockout!! While we assume this guitar will spend some time in a glass display case, we suggest you buy it with the intention of PLAYING it because it sounds amazing!! Got a civil war buff/guitar player on your Holiday list? The perfect gift. $9,995 $9,995
Gold Tone/Beard Signature model PBS Squareneck Just arrived (NEW) Square neck with ebony fingerboard, mahogany top and back, high gloss mahogany finish - Paul Beard designed, manufactured by Gold Tone, Paul Beard cone and spider. List Price: $895 $635
Gold Tone/Beard Signature model PBRCA SOLID MAHOGANY Roundneck cutaway (NEW) We obtain these directly from Paul Beard so he can inspect and set up each instrument. Features include the Beard "R" body style with a soft cutaway, made with premium solid mahogany top & back and laminated sides, Beard open soundwell design for maximum resonance, 25" scale, round mahogany neck w/ snowflake inlaid rosewood fretboard & solid peghead, body, neck & peghead bound with curly maple, dual screen holes, fan coverplate, chrome plated hardware, gloss sunburst finish. NICE! Our price includes case. List Price: $1,295 $949
Pre-Owned Beard Guitars
Beard Model E
Roundneck Mahogany
(SOLD) (USED) - The tremendous Beard Model E resonator (ROUNDNECK) - Big body open soundwell design - just the Big Daddy of wood resonators. These are hard to find new ($3,500) and nearly impossible to find used. Here's a "used" one that looks almost new. Excellent condition. GREAT sound. Not as loud as maple, great bluesy sweetness. On consignment. With original case - will sell quickly. SOLD
Beard Model E
Squareneck Walnut
(SOLD) (USED) (Exc.+++) The tremendous Beard Model E resonator (SQUARENECK) this one a custom highly figured Circassian walnut and spruce top model with additional cosmetic upgrades like abalone fingerboard inlay and logo. Big body open soundwell design - just a killer dobro with looks to match. This is one of a kind, positively impossible to find new ($3,950 custom model) and your lucky day to spot it here used! As close to "mint" condition as a used instrument can be. Talk about secret stash, inside track, mother lode, and luck, this is the personal instrument of a fine builder who works at the Beard Guitar factory. (Think he had access to the *good* wood??) Excellent +++ condition. GREAT full sound. Quarterman cone and Schaller tuners. A little warmer and deeper than maple, with the added benefit of spruce on top. On consignment. With original case - will sell VERY quickly. Indeed! SOLD
Acoustic Music Works is an authorized dealer for National Reso-Phonic Guitars of San Luis Obispo, CA This is a natural fit for us, as much for the resophonic ukuleles and mandolins as well as the Reso Rockets, Estralitas, and Tricone guitars. Count on us to go after the cool stuff and go after it with gusto! We're excited. We also seem to find a lot of vintage Duolians and Triolians. Your guitar stable is not complete until you've added a National Reso-Phonic guitar, or two.
National National model D
walnut squareneck
Just arrived (NEW) - National Model D squareneck. Slotted headstock, spider bridge, constructed of laminated walnut. Great sounding resonator with a certain country-blues sound, not as bluegrassy as the Beards. List price: $2350 JUST ARRIVED. Our price: $ 1,895 $1,895
National El Trovador
Mahogany
Just arrived (NEW) - Mike Dowling signature model. This single cone guitar is patterned after the famous El Trovador that was made only in 1932 and 1933. The body is constructed entirely of mahogany - front, back and sides. The body is artistically bound with multiple layer binding and the mahogany neck features an ebony fingerboard bound in ivoroid. The headstock has a rosewood overlay. The body is 4" deep and the scale length of the neck is 25 " 21/32". ETA: January-February 2009. (EH) RESERVED
National El Trovador
Mahogany
Just Arrived (NEW) - Mike Dowling signature model. This single cone guitar is patterned after the famous El Trovador that was made only in 1932 and 1933. The body is constructed entirely of mahogany - front, back and sides. The body is artistically bound with multiple layer binding and the mahogany neck features an ebony fingerboard bound in ivoroid. The headstock has a rosewood overlay. The body is 4" deep and the scale length of the neck is 25 " 21/32". ETA: Feb 2009 List Price: $3,200 $2,750
National El Trovador
Mahogany
Just Arrived (NEW) - Mike Dowling signature model. This single cone guitar is patterned after the famous El Trovador that was made only in 1932 and 1933. The body is constructed entirely of mahogany - front, back and sides. The body is artistically bound with multiple layer binding and the mahogany neck features an ebony fingerboard bound in ivoroid. The headstock has a rosewood overlay. The body is 4" deep and the scale length of the neck is 25 " 21/32". Check out our pal Ernie Hawkins enjoying the El Trovador. Three El Trovs in stock!! List Price: $3,200 $2,750
National ResoRocket Steel
Antique Brass
(NEW) - One more steel body ResoRocket please, a custom model this time. A 12 fret cutaway resophonic wonder, same pearloid headstock, maple neck, 1.825" nut width, and 25" scale. This one will feature the "antique brass" finish. To be clear, this is a steel guitar, and the finish is called "antique brass". G-R-E-A-T sounding reso with that big open sound - really a versatile guitar. According to Bob Brozman, "The Reso-Rocket is sonically a hybrid between the single cone and the tricone sounds! (60% single/40% tricone). It is a single cone guitar, but the tricone-like upper grilles and the more closed coverplate both change the way the air flows above and below the cone. It seems that the more open upper grilles contribute a lot to the tricone sound. Another GREAT feature of this guitar is the cutaway allowing access to all the highest frets. This instrument is VERY loud, and it has tremendous cutting power, making it a great axe for all kinds of music...As of Jan 1 ,2008 there is a $1000 upcharge for the antique brass finish. " New List price on the special edition Antique Brass ResoRocket" $ 3,985 - JUST ARRIVED. Our price: $ 3189. $3,189
National ResoRocket Steel
Black
Just arrived (NEW) A 12 fret cutaway resophonic wonder, same pearloid headstock, maple neck, 1.825" nut width, and 25" scale. G-R-E-A-T sounding reso with that big open sound - really a versatile guitar. According to Bob Brozman, "The Reso-Rocket is sonically a hybrid between the single cone and the tricone sounds! (60% single/40% tricone). It is a single cone guitar, but the tricone-like upper grilles and the more closed coverplate both change the way the air flows above and below the cone. It seems that the more open upper grilles contribute a lot to the tricone sound. Another GREAT feature of this guitar is the cutaway allowing access to all the highest frets. This instrument is VERY loud, and it has tremendous cutting power, making it a great axe for all kinds of music...JUST ARRIVED List Price: $2,812 $2,250
National ResoRocket Steel
Volcanic ash
Just arrived (NEW) A 12 fret cutaway resophonic wonder, same pearloid headstock, maple neck, 1.825" nut width, and 25" scale. G-R-E-A-T sounding reso with that big open sound - really a versatile guitar. According to Bob Brozman, "The Reso-Rocket is sonically a hybrid between the single cone and the tricone sounds! (60% single/40% tricone). It is a single cone guitar, but the tricone-like upper grilles and the more closed coverplate both change the way the air flows above and below the cone. It seems that the more open upper grilles contribute a lot to the tricone sound. Another GREAT feature of this guitar is the cutaway allowing access to all the highest frets. This instrument is VERY loud, and it has tremendous cutting power, making it a great axe for all kinds of music...JUST ARRIVED $2,250
National ResoRocket Steel
Vintage Steel
Just arrived (NEW (On order) A 12 fret cutaway resophonic wonder, same pearloid headstock, maple neck, 1.825" nut width, and 25" scale. G-R-E-A-T sounding reso with that big open sound - really a versatile guitar. According to Bob Brozman, "The Reso-Rocket is sonically a hybrid between the single cone and the tricone sounds! (60% single/40% tricone). It is a single cone guitar, but the tricone-like upper grilles and the more closed coverplate both change the way the air flows above and below the cone. It seems that the more open upper grilles contribute a lot to the tricone sound. Another GREAT feature of this guitar is the cutaway allowing access to all the highest frets. This instrument is VERY loud, and it has tremendous cutting power, making it a great axe for all kinds of music...ETA January 2009 List $3,030 SOLD (JH) SOLD
National Resophonic Resolectric Junior Just arrived (NEW) Just plain cool. Solid beechwood single cutaway body with light satin finish. Spun cone with bisquit bridge and a Jason Lollar single coil pickup. Maple neck with rosewood fretboard. $1,250
National Uke Replicon (Concert) (SOLD) (NEW) - Join the party. A concert size brass body uke with antiqued (distressed) nickel plating. Just the right amount of distress to resolve your stress. The year of the Uke - you heard it here first! $2,250 SOLD
National Uke single resonator
mahogany
Just arrived (NEW) - Join the party. A concert size mahogany body resonator uke. The blues never had it so good... $1,250 SOLD (MM) SOLD
National Uke single resonator
maple
(SOLD) (NEW) - Join the party. A concert size maple body resonator uke. The blues never had it so good... $1,250 SOLD
National Uke single resonator
mahogany
(On order) - Join the party. A concert size mahogany body resonator uke. The blues never had it so good... ETA June 2009 INQUIRE
National Uke single resonator
Style 2 Brass
Just arrived (NEW) - Fancy Style 2 uke. INQUIRE
Composite Acoustics are back! These are top quality all-composite material acoustic-electric guitars. From trunk to gig, the ultimate live performance guitars.These are great guitars and will challenge your notions about non-wood guitars. Yes, they are virtually unbreakable, safe for air travel, unaffected by temperature and humidity extremes, and make great festival beaters, but they also sound and play GREAT!! Warning: Buy one as a "beater" and it may become your primary guitar. CA Guitars are back in production after a hiatus to re-tool, back with *better* guitars, new features, increased production, and lots of new models and good news. As one of CA's "Pioneer Dealers" we are pleased to continue as a stocking dealer.
Composite Acoustic Legacy Performer (NEW) Dreadnought, X pattern bracing, soft "V" neck with 1 and 3/4" nut width, 25.5" scale, Paua rosette, carbon burst black finish, Fishman PreFix Blend onboard electronics, black TUSQ nut and saddle, Gotoh 15:1 tuners with black knobs, Elixir light gauge strings. Retail Price: $3,000 Includes hard case. CA is back and better than ever!! $2,250
Composite Acoustic Bluegrass model
Just Arrived! (NEW) Our favorite CA dreadnought, the Bluegrass model. Voiced and braced for Bluegrass with improved features. Great loud sounding and playing guitar - no electronics - a fine addition to the CA line. We order these six at a time. Retail Price: $3,000 Includes hard case. $2,250
Composite Acoustic Bluegrass model
with pickup
Just Arrived! (NEW) Our favorite CA, the Bluegrass model. Voiced and braced for Bluegrass with improved features. Great loud sounding and playing guitar - this one includes optional Fishman electronics. Retail Price: $3,000 Includes hard case. $2,450
Composite Acoustic Cargo XS-C Just Arrived (NEW) These are the hottest selling guitars in the music business. Easily, the world's best travel guitar. Made of carbon fiber material with stainless steel frets, it is lightweight, virtually indestructible, impervious to temperature and humidity, and has great sound. The Cargo makes other travel guitars sound like toys. We've not been able to keep them in stock since our first bulk purchase at NAMM. We've finally filled our backorders and received a truckload of these babies, so let's get a little crazy. Buy one for each of your homes. New price: $999 includes good quality Access gigbag. Charcoal and Lipstick Red (for your pitbull) colors in stock. Moe just returned from vacation where he took a Cargo as his Outer Banks beach guitar. He let it lay in the sand as he and his daughter went boogie-boarding in the ocean. When he picked it up, it was in tune and had lots of sand in the soundhole. Then he took it back to the beach house and played it in the hot tub. At the end of the trip he jammed it in the space cadet next to the boogie boards on the roof of the van. Now it's home in his garage, still covered with sand and salt and chlorine and a few bugs and some spilled Trader Joe's Two Buck Chuck. Next, he'll hose it off and hang it in the damp basement next to the woodstove. Nice to have a guitar Moe can wail on and not worry about. Humidity? Hu-schmid-ity. New price $999 $999
Composite Acoustic Cargo XS-CE Just Arrived (NEW) These are the hottest selling guitars in the music business. Easily, the world's best travel guitar. Made of carbon fiber material with stainless steel frets, it is lightweight, virtually indestructible, impervious to temperature and humidity, and has great sound. Baby T's and Backpackers to the scrapheap! The Cargo makes other travel guitars sound like toys. We've not been able to keep them in stock since our first bulk purchase at NAMM. We've finally filled our backorders and received a truckload of these babies, so let's get a little crazy. Buy one for each of your homes. New price: $1,099 includes good quality Access gigbag. An electric-acoustic guitar, this model includes Fishman Matrix VT electronics. Charcoal color only. $1,099
Composite Acoustic Bluegrass model
Sunburst
Just Arrived! (NEW) Special Edition Dreadnought - Bluegrass model. Voiced and braced for Bluegrass with improved features and this one has a hand painted (front and back) sunburst! Great sounding and playing guitar - no electronics - a fine addition to the CA line. Retail Price: $3,300 Includes hard case. SOLD
Composite Acoustic Bluegrass model
Sunburst
Just Arrived! (NEW) Special Edition Dreadnought - Bluegrass model. Voiced and braced for Bluegrass with improved features and this one has a Fall orange sunburst! All carbon fiber dreadnought body, heel-less neck with soft V shape, white Tusq 1-3/4" nut, 25.5" scale, fancy mother-of pearl rosette, no electronics, Gotoh nickel vintage style open geared tuners. Great sounding and playing guitar - a fine addition to the CA line. Retail Price: $2,995 Includes hard case. SOLD
Composite Acoustic The X Performer (NEW) X body with cutaway, small X pattern bracing, slim "U" shape neck with 1 and 3/4" nut width, 25.5" scale, Agoya rosette, carbon burst black finish, L.R. Baggs I-Mix onboard electronics, black TUSQ nut and saddle, Gotoh 15:1 tuners with black knobs, Elixir light gauge strings. Retail Price: $3,350 Includes hard case. $2,250
Eastman 805 (NEW) We're going to turn up the heat here this year with more archtops and electrics - and here's a venerable 16" archie from the good folks at Eastman to get this new trio of Eastmans noticed. Straight acoustic - no pickup on this one, 1 and 3/4" nut width - Carved maple with Spruce top in gorgeous classic antique violin finish - ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) gold hardware - shaped Eastman case. GREAT sounding acoustic archie! A screaming bargain at $1,995 - our price $ 1,595 List
Price: $1,995
Our
Price: $1,595
Eastman 805ce (NEW) We're going to turn up the heat here this year with archtops and electrics - and here's a venerable 16" archie from the good folks at Eastman to get this new trio of Eastmans noticed. Kent Armstrong floating pickup, 1 and 3/4" nut width - Carved maple with Spruce top in gorgeous SUNBURST- ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) gold hardware - shaped Eastman case. A screaming bargain at $2,395 - our price $ 1,915 List
Price: $2,395
Our
Price: $1,915
Eastman 810ce
Sunburst
(NEW) We're going to turn up the heat here this year with archtops and electrics - and here's a venerable 17" archie from the good folks at Eastman to get this new trio of Eastmans noticed. Kent Armstrong floating pickup, 1 and 3/4" nut width - Carved maple with Spruce top in gorgeous SUNBURST - ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) gold hardware - shaped high quality Eastman case. A s-c-r-e-a-m-i-n-g bargain at $2,495 - our price $ 1,995 List
Price: $2,495
Our
Price: $1,995
Eastman 810ce
Blue
Just arrived! (NEW) 2007 NAMM Guitar - Blue, like the Beijing sky. 1 and 3/4" nut width - Carved maple with Spruce top in gorgeous Elvis Presley Blue - ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) gold hardware - shaped high quality Eastman case. We like blue guitars and this one is a blue bargain at $2,495 - our price $ 1,995 SOLD
Eastman 910ce (SOLD) (NEW) We're going to turn up the heat here this year with archtops and electrics - and here's a top of the line 17" archie from the good folks at Eastman to get this new trio of Eastmans noticed. Kent Armstrong floating pickup, 1 and 3/4" nut width - Carved maple with Spruce top in gorgeous BLONDE with maple binding - ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) gold hardware with ebony tuner knobs - shaped high quality Eastman case. An insane value at $3,495 - our price $ 2,795 SOLD
Eastman AR-880 John Pisano Signature model (NEW) Eastman AR880 16" archtop HAND CRAFTED solid highly flamed maple back and sides, solid spruce top, wood binding, 1 and 3/4" nut width gold Schaller tuners with ebony knobs, Kent Armstrong *humbucking* pickup, blonde finish of spirit varnish and lacquer on back, top,and sides. Ebony knobs, bridge, pickguard, and headstock inlay. Adjustable tension tailpiece. The finest available wood and fittings. Very cool combination visually - Amazing instrument for the price. Fiberglass case. A bit unusual. Really nice - built to Pisano's specs. Very comfortable 2 and 3/4" body depth. Top notch pro quality electric guitar at a bargain price. List
Price: $3,495
$2,795
Eastman AR-680CE John Pisano Signature model
Mahogany
(NEW) Eastman AR680CE 16" archtop HAND CRAFTED solid highly mahogany back and sides. We just love the tone and the low price on these mahogany archtops! List
Price: $2,695
$2,150
Gallagher Doc Watson model (NEW) - Doc Watson model. People who play Gallagher guitars obsess about tone. East Tennessee flatpick tone. Pure lumber and love, perspiration and sawdust, mountain air and mountaineer. SOLD
Blueridge Guitars
NEWS!! For 2008, Blueridge is positioning itself as the premium import brand with higher quality, more options, and improved features. They have drastically reduced their number of dealers and we are pleased to be one of the first dealers of this "new" era of the Blueridge Guitar Co. We are pleased to offer these high value guitars. We've had geat success with our custom Blueridge models and will be building more.
Blueridge BR-140A-2 custom
Mahogany
Adirondack Spruce
Just arrived (NEW)Just in time for festival season. 18 more of our custom Blueridge model - shipping today from San Francisco. Shoud arrive here June 18. A D-18GE style guitar. Custom BR-140A-2 with the Holy Grail of tonewoods (Adirondack spruce) top. That's right, ADIRONDACK spruce. All solid woods, a simpler "Blueridge" script logo (we eliminated all that fake inlay on the headstock) no aging toner, forward shifted scalloped bracing, wider 1 and 3/4" nut width with slightly wider (1.5") string spacing, "decent" quality open back tuners, and a whole lot of bang for the buck. Also ordered WITHOUT pickguard (so you can choose and install your own - or for fingerstyle go without a pickguard altogether - dalmatian pickguard provided at no cost)You can buy the whole guitar for less than some companies charge for the Adirondack spruce alone!! In terms of value, simply impossible to beat. For 2008, Blueridge has raised their quality (and their prices) and this is an unheard of value with a list price of $1295. An unbelievable value at our SALE price $949 which includes case. Other companies charge $900 to $1000 extra for Adirondack spruce alone. With our custom Blueridge, you get the whole guitar for that price! If you've been waiting for the "right" BR-140, this custom model has been worth the wait. Now, for our fellow purists: What's the catch? How can the Asians build this guitar and sell it for $949? In the interest of full disclosure, here are the gotchas on this model, and things we would change if we ran the world: The finish is polyurethane. The bridgeplate is rosewood. The warranty is only one year. The bridge and fretboard are rosewood. The neck is three piece. Is it a D-18GE? Of course not. Does it sound like one? Pretty darn close, I have to say. This is a custom order just for us - they will not be available anywhere else. $849
Blueridge BR-160A-2 custom
East Indian Rosewood
Adirondack Spruce
Just arrived (NEW)Earlier than expected. 12 more of our custom Blueridge model on rosewood - arrived today from San Francisco. An HD-28 style guitar. Custom BR-160A-2 with the Holy Grail of tonewoods (Adirondack spruce) top. That's right, ADIRONDACK spruce. All solid woods, a simpler "Blueridge" script logo (we eliminated all that fake inlay on the headstock) no aging toner, forward shifted scalloped bracing, wider 1 and 3/4" nut width with slightly wider (1.5") string spacing, "decent" quality open back tuners, and a whole lot of bang for the buck. Also ordered WITHOUT pickguard (so you can choose and install your own - or for fingerstyle go without a pickguard altogether - dalmatian pickguard provided at no cost)You can buy the whole guitar for less than some companies charge for the Adirondack spruce alone!! In terms of value, simply impossible to beat. For 2008, Blueridge has raised their quality (and their prices) and this is an unheard of value with a list price of $1395. An unbelievable value at our SALE price $975 which includes case. Other companies charge $900 to $1000 extra for Adirondack spruce alone. With our custom Blueridge, you get the whole guitar for that price! If you've been waiting for the "right" BR-160, this custom model has been worth the wait. Now, for our fellow purists: What's the catch? How can the Asians build this guitar and sell it for $975? In the interest of full disclosure, here are the gotchas on this model, and things we would change if we ran the world: The finish is polyurethane. The bridgeplate is rosewood. The warranty is one year. The bridge and fretboard are rosewood. The neck is three piece. Is it an HD28? Of course not. Does it sound like one? Pretty darn close, and with the Adirondack top, some say better. This is a custom order just for us - they will not be available anywhere else. $895
Blueridge BR-260
Brazilian Rosewood
(NEW) BR-260 with Brazilian rosewood back and sides. That's right, Brazilian roswewood. All solid woods, Sitka spruce top, 1 and 11/16" nut width, small maple bridge plate. You can buy the whole guitar for about half of what most companies charge for the Brazilian rosewood alone!! Bang for the buck, simply impossible to beat. For 2007, Blueridge has raised their quality (and their prices) and this is an unheard of value in a Brazilian rosewood guitar with a list price of $3,650. An unbelievable value at our SALE price $2750. $2,750
Blueridge BR-143 Custom Back in stock ---------(NEW) High quality import copy of a Martin OOO-18. This is a custom model made just for us. All solid woods, mahogany back and sides, sitka spruce top, scalloped bracing, small MAPLE bridge plate, 25.5" scale, wider 1 and 3/4" nut width, NO aging toner on top, and less bling on the headstock than the standard models - also ordered WITHOUT pickguard (so you can choose and install your own - or for fingerstyle go without a pickguard altogether) and better quality (import) tuners. The perfect "affordable" OM-18. Bang for the buck, hard to beat. $795 list price - Great value - our price will be $595. The first and second batces of twelve sold quickly - we have received our third batch of twelve. They will go quickly. List price: $895 Our price $675. SALE: great low price! $649 with case! Two left! $649
Blueridge BR-43 (New) Decent! - solid spruce top (laminated sides and back) mahogany OOO-18 style small body - a screaming bargain. The *ideal* student/intermediate mahogany guitar or "beater" guitar for the office or garage. VERY good sound for the price. Great value - Our price $379. $379
Blueridge BR-63 (New) Nice! Solid spruce top (laminated sides and back) rosewood 0M-28 style small body - a screaming bargain. The *ideal* student/intermediate rosewood guitar or "beater" guitar for the office or garage. EXCELLENT sound for this price. $595. Great value - Our price $479. $479
Blueridge BR-43E
Electric-Acoustic
Just arrived---------(NEW) Better than Decent! - solid spruce top (laminated sides and back) mahogany OM-18 style small body - a screaming bargain. The *ideal* intermediate mahogany "road" guitar for gigging. FANTASTIC sound for the price. Includes Fishman Classic 4T electronics with pickup, EQ, and digital tuner. Great value - Our price $495. Add a case for $99 - total with case $ 594.00. A true bargain! $495
Blueridge BR-63E
Electric-Acoustic
Just arrived---------(NEW) Nice! Solid spruce top (laminated sides and back) rosewood 0M-28 style small body - a screaming bargain. The *ideal* intermediate rosewood "road" guitar for gigging. EXCELLENT sound for the price. Includes Fishman Classic 4T electronics with pickup, EQ, and digital tuner. $ 795 Great value - Our price $650. Add a case for $99 - total with case $ 724.00 $650
Gitane Guitars
Gitane D-500 (USED) Gypsy Jazz guitar! Large soundhole wide-mouth model. SOLD
Breedlove guitars have a strikingly unique look and sound. Breedlove offers fine fingerstyle guitars, perhaps the most innovative 12-strings on the market, and impressive custom inlay work and decorative options. Breedlove Guitars are manufactured in Tumalo, OR. We offer very competitive pricing on Breedlove guitars. Call or e-mail for sale prices
Breedlove Northwest Classic
with Synergy system
Just arrived (NEW) Breedlove Master Class guitar - Northwest Classic Grand Concert model deep body with cutaway in Myrtlewood with Sitka top Sitka spruce top, ivoroid binding. Quick, clear and punchy, with that Breedlove "depth". Northwest Classic fretboard inlay. With Breedlove Synergy system. List Price: $6,325 SOLD (SS) SOLD
Breedlove SJ-25 12 String custom Just Arrived (NEW) Custom Jumbo 12 string with Myrtlewood (a broadleaf evergreen native to Southwestern Oregon) back and sides, Sitka spruce top, tortoise binding, Focus style inlay. Beautiful 12 string with great lively acoustic tone, and great amplified sound thanks to the built in L.R. Baggs Dual Source pickup (factory installed) It has been said that Myrtlewood has the powerful voice of rosewood coupled with all the clarity, brightness and balance of maple. With coloration anywhere from an elegant whitish to yellow/green with flame, the tonal personality of Myrtlewood is consistent. Breedlove, with its Orgon location, has done more to popularize the wood than anyone. List Price: $4,995 Includes Breedlove case. Call or e-mail for sale prices. Thanks A.D. SOLD
Breedlove King Koa Just Arrived (NEW) Our favorite Breedlove. The koa and cedar King Koa model with mermaid inlay. Fancy beyond all reason, but tastefully and elegantly executed with perfect fit and finish and great tone. Koa and cedar, can't beat it. The mermaid, she's a nice bonus. List price: $7995 $6,395
Breedlove Classic XII 12 String Just Arrived (NEW) Jumbo 12 string with Striped Ebony (posessing the tonal richness of Rosewood with a bit more volume and a specific gravity matching the best Brazilian Rosewood. It has a striking, distinctive dark and light brown, black and green variegation. It makes a truly exceptional twelve string. Controlled by the government of New Guinea, but not an endangered species) back and sides, Sitka spruce top, ivoroid binding. We think these are among the finest 12 string guitars available. Can be tuned to concert pitch with light gauge strings - delivers big sound, great intonation, superb playability. List Price: $5,899 Includes Breedlove case. Call or e-mail for sale prices. SOLD
Breedlove C-15 Calendar IV (NEW) Grand Concert, shallow body, Soft Cutaway. Aged tone quilted maple back and sides, "bearclaw" Sitka spruce top, ivoroid binding. Quick, clean, clear and punchy, with that Breedlove "depth". A very fine fingerstyle guitar. Custom fretboard inlay. April 2005 Calendar model - Limited Edition #2 of 15. Fresh pics. List Price: $4,995 Call or e-mail for sale prices SOLD
Breedlove OM-R (NEW) From Breedlove's new "Revival" series, a classic OM featuring solid rosewood back and sides, solid Sitka spruce top and braces, advanced and scalloped Pre-War style X-Bracing, 1 and 3/4" bone nut, squared headstock, Grover 18:1 Sta-Tite vintage tuners, generic hard case. New List Price: $2,499. Very good guitar. Sounds like a Martin. Plays like a Taylor. Price includes a case. SOLD
Breedlove AN250/CR Nylon String Breedlove ATLAS series deep body grand concert style hybrid nylon string guitar. Solid Western Red Cedar top/laminated rosewood back, satin finish. 1 and 7/8" nut width. Soft cutaway, Fishman electronics. It has a list of $749, and at that price, represents a fine value...but it is ON SALE - Call or e-mail for sale prices SOLD
Pre-Owned Breedlove Guitars
Breedlove AN250/CR Nylon String (USED) Breedlove ATLAS series deep body grand concert style hybrid nylon string guitar. Solid Western Red Cedar top/laminated rosewood back, satin finish. 1 and 7/8" nut width. Soft cutaway, Fishman electronics. A steal at this price. SOLD
Breedlove ABJ250/SM5 Bass (USED) Breedlove ATLAS series (manufactured for Breedlove in Korea) Fretted 5 string bass. Solid spruce top - laminated mahogany back and sides. Acoustic-electric with Fishman electronics. List Price: $895. IN STOCK - ON SALE $250 - Grand larceny at this price. SOLD
Breedlove SD-20 Z
Ziricote and Port Orford Cedar
Just arrived (USED) A Breedlove SD20 dreadnought built with highly figured Ziricote back and sides and Port Orford Cedar top. Very clean guitar with a big voice for open tunings, fingerstyle or strumming. Nice sound. Pics soon. ON CONSIGNMENT. $2,200
Breedlove SD20 all mahogany (USED) VERY nice. All mahogany dreadnought size guitar with tortoise binding and 1 and 3/4" nut width - with LR Baggs Dual source active electronics installed. Very well crafted and nicely set up. VERY warm and FULL sounding all mahogany guitar at a very good price. Includes Breedlove high quality heavy duty gig bag. SOLD
Almansa 401 Just Arrived (NEW) Priced for the student, built for the advanced player. Solid cedar top, laminated mahogany back and sides, rosewood fingerboard, mahogany neck, nickel tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Made in Spain - List Price: $499 SOLD
Almansa 424 (NEW) Priced for the student, built for the advanced player. Solid cedar top, laminated figured African Bubinga back and sides, rosewood fingerboard, mahogany neck, gold tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Made in Spain - List Price: $795 with padded gig bag SOLD
Almansa 434 Cedar (NEW) Priced for the student, built for the advanced player. Solid cedar top, laminated East Indian rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard, mahogany neck, gold tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Made in Spain - List Price: $895 with padded gig bag SOLD
Almansa 434 Spruce (NEW) Priced for the student, built for the advanced player. Solid cedar top, laminated East Indian rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard, mahogany neck, gold tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Made in Spain - List Price: $949 with padded gig bag SOLD
Almansa 436 Cedar Cutaway Just Arrived (NEW) Electric - acoustic cutaway classical, built for the advanced player. Solid cedar top, laminated East Indian rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard, cedar neck with ebony skunk stripe, gold tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Made in Spain - List Price: $1895 with padded gig bag. SOLD
Almansa 457 Cedar Just Arrived (NEW) All solid wood model, lots of upgraded features. Solid cedar top, solid East Indian rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard, cedar neck, gold plated tuning machines, polished lacquer finish. Handcrafted in Spain - List Price: $1,795 with TKL Zero Gravity case. SOLD
Regal RC-2 (NEW) Nickel plated duolian style - new and improved Chinese model - with pearloid headstock veneer, better hardware, slim neck. List Price $ 595 $425
Wechter/Scheerhorn
Wechter/Scheerhorn Maple Square Neck
Almond Sunburst
(NEW) maple SQUARENECK resonator - great sound - great value. Oh the resonator wars are heating up!! Master resonator guitar builder Tim Scheerhorn has teamed up with Abe Wechter Guitars to produce this highly affordable and innovative squareneck resonator guitar. Designed by Scheerhorn, manufactured in Asia and assembled & setup by the staff at Wechter's Michigan shop, this resonator features the signature Scheerhorn open body design with soundposts and baffle, highly figured curly maple laminate body, mahogany neck, f-holes, bound body & neck, sunburst gloss finish, dot inlaid fretboard w/ simulated frets, spun aluminum resonator cone, cast spider bridge, hard maple inserts, bone nut. Includes shaped light duty import semi-hardshell case. List Price: $1199.00 Wow - these are very cool! Great sounding modern dobro - big growling tone. IN STOCK $ 899
Other NEW Guitars
Other Pre-Owned Guitars
Beard Benedetto Manhattan 7 - String Just arrived (USED) Well, look what we have here! The signature model of the Benedetto archtop line, a Benedetto Manhattan 7-string in honey blonde finish. 17" archtop built with the finest materials: X-braced Master grade European spruce top, Master grade European flame maple back and sides, 25" scale, gold Schaller tuners with ebony knobs. Built under the supervision of Bob Benedetto with label signed by Benedetto. The instrument of choice for Bucky Pizarelli, Howard Alden, Jimmy Bruno and other Jazz legends. The instrument by which other archtops are judged. Current list price new: $27,500 Traded here on a Collings guitar. INQUIRE
Bourgeois Custom Slope D
Banjo Killer
Pale Sunburst
Just arrived (USED) One of our original BANJO KILLER slope D guitars, #20 of the first limited run of 30, label signed by Bryan Sutton, celebrating Dana Bourgeois' first 30 years of guitar building. This was a custom model of the limited series done for us in sunburst (one of three done in pale sunburst)and has been played well for two years. Highly figured premium grade mahogany, bearclaw sitka spruce, double scalloped Banjo Killer bracing, Brazilian rosewood fretboard and bridge, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. Standard strap button installed, ebony bridge pins, 1 and 23/32" nut width. Great loud guitar, broken in, ready to kill more banjos. Updated pics shown here. ON CONSIGNMENT (MM) $3,250
Bourgeois A-350 Just arrived (USED) Oh my! A *superb* A-350 Dana Bourgeois archtop in violin finish sunburst. Generally, we can only count on one of these per year - and it's always a VERY good day when one arrives. We sold this guitar new last year, and it still looks new. Beautiful in every way. An extremely fine instrument, worthy of the finest player. You perhaps? $4,650
BOZO 1977 Bell Western cutaway
all abalone
Brazilian
Just arrived (USED) Here's something you don't see every day. A Brazilian rosewood Bozo Bell Western cutaway. Built as a custom order by Bozo Podunavac in 1977. This is one fine guitar. Bozo's Croatian heritage is on full display on this very ornate guitar. With impeccable workmanship and playabilty, Bozo guitars are highly prized. The list of players (Leo Kottke, John Fahey, Reverend Gary Davis) reads like a Who's Who. Heavily built but blanced and responsive like no other guitar from that era. Strung with light gauge Thomastik strings, this guitar plays like butter. It is unusual, fine, collectible, and worthy of the finest player. Itis priced accordingly. ON CONSIGNMENT - INQUIRE $24,000
Breedlove SD-20 Z
Ziricote and Port Orford Cedar
Just arrived (USED) A Breedlove SD20 dreadnought built with highly figured Ziricote back and sides and Port Orford Cedar top. Very clean guitar with a big voice for open tunings, fingerstyle or strumming. Nice sound. Pics soon. ON CONSIGNMENT. $2,200
Flammang D-30 black top Just arrived (USED) (EXC. +) Another great used guitar from a good customer. This is our first Flammang (David Flammang of Greene, Iowa). It was built in 2003 and it wears serial # 87. It is a lightly built exquisitely crafted guitar that is clearly built and set up to be played fingerstyle. It has no pickguard and the action is set at 5/64"! Unusual, at least for us, to think of a dreadnought as a "fingerstyle" guitar as a great majority of our dreadnoughts are heavily strung tools for hairy armed bluegrassers. This guitar is built with a bit of refinement that might disqualify it as a "bluegrass" guitar but it certainly excels at modern fingerstyle and blues and open tunings. It's a bit more pino than Pabst, a little more James Taylor than Jimmy Martin. Reminds us of a certain 1944 Martin D-18. Very light, advanced forward shifted X brace, scalloped. The fit and finish is about perfect, this lightly braced Adirodack topped guitar responds to a light touch and the tone is balanced, and the feel (1 and 23/32" nut width, V-neck, 5/64" low action)is un-real. ON CONSIGNMENT $3,300
Gibson J45
True Vintage
Just arrived (Used) Exc. + condition. 2002 J45-TV True Vintage. Classic Gibson sunburst, bone nut and saddle, Madagascar Rosewood fretboard and bridge. Vintage style case - with pink furry lining. Great singer-songwriter or Blues guitar. These retail for $3,600. Nice guitar. Real clean - plastic still on the pickguard. On consignment. $1,950
Gibson Dwight Yoakam Y2K Model Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. 2001 Dwight Yoakam signature model. Maple J-180 style guitar with spruce top - Everly Brothers style dual tortoise material pickguards. Black Gibson case - with furry burgundy lining. These retail for $2,900. Nice guitar. This model mfg. between 2000 and 2002. Real clean - On consignment. SOLD
Gibson Firebird
Custom Shop
Just arrived (Used) Exc. + condition. A custom shop guitar - basically a Dove style Gibson built with red stained heavily quilted maple back and sides. Big ol' Firebird pickguard, fancy guitar, lots of inlay. High quality throughout. Nice thumping bass and good Gibsony vibe. Nice guitar. On consignment. $2,250
Guild D-55
rosewood
Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. Basically new. Coming in on trade - rosewood D-55. The flagship of the Guild line. This is the first new one form the Fender (Corona , CA) plant that we have seen. Very good sounding one, with big bass. Well set up - plays GREAT. Equipped with L.R. Baggs M-1 (active) pickup. Plug and play! Fine sounding Guild D-55 with case. $1,500 Pics soon. SOLD
Gretsch Model 35 - 1930's (USED) Looks like a 1936 or later Gretsch model 35 archtop. 16" lower bout like an L-5. Dark brown/red sunburst, raised black pickguard, pearl scroll logo, 3 on a side die-cast tuners, trapeze tailpiece, adjustable bridge, white binding with pearloid purfling, black plastic headstock overlay, rosewood fretboard. Plenty of honest player wear and tear - two repaired top cracks, several more recent splits, dings galore, but nothing unusual for a guitar this age. It appears quite solid and worth consideration of repair and regular use. It is not a trophy guitar. Comes with beat chipboard case with poorly functioning latches, possibly original. The binding on the back is shrunken and has some splits, indicating that the back may have been removed at some point to facilitate some internal repairs. There is no visible serial number. The owner of the guitar claimed it was a 1933. Our research indicates it is a 1936 or older (1936 being the year Gretsch added the adjustable bridge and the black headstock overlay.) The fingerboard is Brazilian rosewood, indicating it may be as late as 1939. (a 1933 would have had an ebony fretboard) Plays and sounds GREAT! SOLD
Kay 1946 M-1 upright bass Just arrived! (USED) A 1946 Kay M-1 bass in EXCELLENT ++ condition and with great provenance. This bass spent a lot of time on stage and strapped to the roof of the van with Slim Bryant and his Georgia Wildcats. We hope to keep this one in the family, so act fast!! Includes two VERY good bows and a nice carrying bag. Magnificent condition, GREAT bluegrass bass. $3,200 SOLD locally, and yes, we found it a VERY good home. SOLD
Kay 1950 M-1 upright bass Just arrived! (USED) A 1950 Kay M-1 bass in decent condition with excellent sound. All the typical wear and tear and dings - needs a setup and new strings but is fundamentally solid and ready to roll. Includes a decent bow (needs re-haired) and a nice carrying bag. $2,650
Martin OO-12 Mad Rose
1833 Series
Just arrived (Used) Exc. + condition. A beautiful and extremely good sounding OO-12 fret from the good folks in Nazareth, PA. A Martin 1833 series beauty. Madagascar Rosewood, Adirondack spruce, 12 frets, 1 and 11/16" nut width, pyramid bridge, slotted headstock. Very Limited Edition. One of eight. Nice warm tone, plays like butter. Was $3,750 - New lower price $3,450
Martin D-42 Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. Recent D-42 serial # 123xxxx) Great sounding, nicely set up D-42. Probably our favorite Martin model, the D-42, this one an excellent example. Nice neck, classic Martin sound. ON CONSIGNMENT Was $2,950 - New lower price. $2,750
Martin D-28 Marquis Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. Recent D-28 Marquis serial # 119xxxx) Very (very) clean Martin D28 Marquis with Adirondack spruce top. Nice neck, classic Martin sound. ON CONSIGNMENT. Great Bluegrass guitar - good all around player. Nice. $2,750
Merrill Brothers OM-18 Just arrived (USED) (EXC.++) A Merrill Brothers OM-18 (MB OM-18 serial # 162 to be exact) - It's a fact. Jim Merrill builds one of the highest quality reproductions of a vintage OM-18 ever made. It generally takes a very long time to get a Merrill, but it is worth the wait. It will be a pleasure to handle this consignment. Just one of the finest vintage style guitars we've ever come across. We've taken close up photos, but the person who buys this won't buy it for its looks. It's all about tone. Don't get me wrong, it looks great with fit and finish at a very high level, but it is pretty plain looking. It just looks like a 1932 OM-18, that's all. Oh, and it sounds like one too. Really, it's all that and a bag of chips. SOLD
Merrill Brothers OM-18 sunburst Just arrived (USED) (EXC.) Another Merrill Brothers OM-18 - It's a fact. Jim Merrill builds one of the highest quality reproductions of a vintage OM-18 ever made. The last Merrill we had caused quite a stir and made believers of us all. Here comes another one, sunburst this time. Wanna play? Merrill builds a guitar that looks, sounds, and feels, EXACTLY like a vintage Martin. Moe had a 1932 Martin OM-18sb here ($26,500) and the Merrill OM-18sb (dark amber burst) looks like it, feels like it, and sounds as good or better. All the others (We have Collings OM1, OM1A, OM1ss and Bourgeois custom OM and Huss and Dalton TOM-A here) have less woof in the bottom and less warmth than a Martin (and a Merrill) but all have stronger mids and stronger trebles than the Martin and Merrill. The Merrill has the *same* scooped mids, strong bass, and relatively weak (let's call them "soft") trebles of the Martin. The Merrill sounds and feels like an old guitar. The neck feel is identical to the 1932 Martin. It is a superlative example of a vintage recreation. It (here comes the wit) does not have an original bone in its entire body (except a truss rod) as it is a reverse engineered (hate that term) *perfect* interpretation (better term) of a 1930's Martin. Priced to sell quickly. The Merrill is a 2002, serial # 000273 $5,150
Miller Model D Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. Basically new. Coming in on consignment - mahogany dreadnought. A high end custom guitar, in a custom Cedar Creek case. A rare and highly desirable Ken Miller (of Tallahassee, FL) D, #105. Miller is one of the hottest small shop builders in the flat picking community today. # 105 is a standard D model with highly-figured mahogany back and sides, master grade Adirondack top, STAINLESS STEEL frets, Brazilian rosewood binding and fretboard trim, fossil walrus ivory pins, snake wood knobbed Waverlies, and a Brazilian peg head with a beautiful inlayed Oak leaf and acorn design. One of a kind, to be sure. And, oh yea, it's finished in VARNISH. The guitar is consigned here as the owner awaits delivery of his next Ken Miller guitar. The sound is balanced. The guitar can work for flatpicking and figerstyle. Fresh pics. $3,200
Olson Olson SJ Just arrived (Used) Exc.++ condition. 2000 Olson SJ. Rosewood and cedar with tortoise binding, abalone top purfling, 1 and 3/4" nut width and standard (Olson installed) passive pickup. Basically a James Taylor model without cutaway and without wood binding. As guitars go, they don't get much better: Perfect fit and finish, dazzling woods, and great playability. Schaller tuners with ebony knobs. Near mint (looks unplayed) condition. Plays beautifully and sounds magnificent. $10,500 - On consignment. SOLD
Rockbridge OM/OOO Brazilian Rosewood Just arrived (USED) (EXC.) A 2007 Rockbridge. Our first Rockbridge. This one has some fine straight grain Brazilian rosewood, a very thin finish, and some very fine Adirondack spruce on top. We're just getting to know it, but we'll say it is a delightfully even sounding guitar with a smoothness and warmth that immediately distinguishes it. The short scale makes it a very easy player and the Gibsonesque neck has an oil varnish satin finish. Some very well thought out features. We've spoken with Brian Calhoun, the builder, and he tells us that this guitar used his very highest grade woods. This guitar sold new in 2007 for $7,000. Used, it was priced at $5,250. It is now priced at $4,950 - a great price for a Brazilian rosewood guitar. $4,950
Santa Cruz F Just arrived (USED) (EXC.) The Santa Cruz model F. A mid jumbo (J185) style guitar, this one with East Indian rosewood back and sides and sitka spruce top with nickel Schaller tuners. Excellent condition, nice sound, plays great. On consignment. New lower price. $2,350
Santa Cruz Tony Rice Pro Just arrived (USED) (EXC. ) We don't take a lot of Santa Cruz guitars here, but you can bet that when we do, we cherry pick the *very* best sounding ones. Here is a model that almost always reminds us of just how good the folks at Santa Cruz can be when they put their minds to it: a Tony Rice *Pro* model with wildly figured Brazilian rosewood and fine European spruce top. The TR Pro is built to Tony Rice's specs (slightly shorter scale, sharp "V" neck, enlarged soundhole, etc.) and is a remarkably warm and traditional sounding guitar. Sounds like an old Brazilian Martin. This one has a few light dings and scratches and one finish crack on the side (that does *not* penetrate the wood at all) and it has a strap button installed on the heel - not our favorite location - so all in all this guitar, though collectible, probably appeals more to the *player* than the *collector* - go figure. And what a "player" she is! The guitar of a lifetime for someone. Consigned here while the customer contemplates a new custom Collings City Limits electric guitar.. Nice price! $5,250
Santa Cruz OO 12 fret Just arrived (USED) (EXC. +) Another great used guitar from a very good customer. This is a Santa Cruz OO (12 fret short scale) #130, dating it to 2002. Santa Cruz is well known for the Tony Rice model dreadnought and their OM guitars. Our favorites have always been their model H and 12 fret dreads and small bodies. Very lightly crafted, with lots of subtlety. This is an exceptionally good sounding guitar. Quite bluesy, the sound is perfectly balanced. Sitka top, slotted headstock, 1 and 3/4" nut width, extremely fine condition overall with one ding on the headstock. A great little fingerstyle blues box or parlor guitar. Professionally set up with low action and light gauge strings. VERY nice. Traded here on a Collings mandolin. New lower price. $2,650
Tippin OO-12 fret
lake salvaged sitka
Just arrived (USED) This is a superb example of a highly desirable Tippin OO 12 fret rosewood guitar. It was built in June of 1997 and has magnificent and unusual spruce top. We contacted Bill Tippin about the guitar and he told us about the very old wood used for the top: "That top is Lake Salvage Sitka which we called "Salmon Spruce", because it was salvaged from these very large storage boxes for salmon that was caught for market . They would store the fish in these underwater boxes to keep them fresh and alive, a practice abandoned somewhere around the turn of the century. The boxes were left there submerged until the late 1980's when I bought as much of the wood as I could at the time, and is no longer available. All the guitars built with it sounded great." It is certainly a sweet sounding guitar in extremely nice condition. We're finding this guitar, even in this shop stuffed full of very high quality guitars, hard to put down. It likes to be played hard, and has plenty of thwack and headroom. It has a VERY strong thump for fingerstyle blues and ragtime. 1 and 3/4" nut, vintage neck profile, wood rosette, impeccable fit and finish, vintage style thin pyramid bridge, slotted headstock, Waverly tuners. Very unusual to find a 25.4" scale length on a 12 fret OO. Fine craftsmanship, excellent sound. A few dings on the headstock and some scarring where it hung on peghead hook. Other than that, excellent + condition. Mighty fishy!! SOLD
Previously Sold Guitars - No longer available
The Archives. We've moved a selection of "sold" guitars here to lessen the clutter in the other sections. We've created this section to show a little bit of what's been coming and going. It is a small sample but it gives you a good idea of what we're all about here as well at what we're looking for in the way of trades and consignments.
Alvarez-Yairi WY-1K
all koa
(SOLD) (USED) (EXC) This Alvarez Yairi WY-1K was traded on a magnificent custom Huss & Dalton guitar here at our store. An all koa wood WY-1K guitar, handcrafted by Yairi in Japan. This is definitely a cool stage-ready acoustic/electric guitar. This guitar has a laminated top and is designed SPECIFICALLY to reduce feedback in a live amplified music situation. The guitar was designed with input from Bob Weir, of the Grateful Dead, who co-designed the original model. The guitar is sturdily built and has excellent (Alvarez System 600T) electronics with a built in (onboard) digital guitar tuner and EQ. Fast, slim 1 and 5/8" nut width, short (24.9") scale, ebony fretboard and bridge, abalone purfling and rosette, bone nut, tortoise binding, pearloid tuner knobs, and gold plated hardware. The guitar comes in the original Alvarez case. SOLD
Beard Jerry Douglas Limited Edition
Squareneck
(SOLD) (NEW) Announced at NAMM, 2008, Paul Beard and resonator virtuoso Jerry Douglas have collaborated on the design of this great new resophonic guitar. Production is limited to 50 instruments, and we are delighted to be in line for two of them. This is # 14 of 50. The body is a modified Beard E-style of all solid quilted Pomelle Sapelle mahogany for soaring high end and magnificent bass, with open body chamber and baffle, spider bridge & Beard spun cone, for the classic Beard open-body resonator guitar sound. Square profile mahogany neck, flame maple bindings, custom design coverplate, dual screened soundholes, ebony fretboard with custom inlay pattern & "Jerry Douglas" signature inlay, highest quality Waverly tuners, chrome plated hardware, custom Douglas family crest peghead inlay and super deluxe custom case with tooled leather trim. Larry Fishman, working with Beard and Douglas, has designed a completely new spider bridge pickup which incorporates special elements directly into the two ebony capped hard maple saddle pieces. Beard has modified the spider to allow for easy installation and adjustment of the saddle inserts. Then Fishman worked with Douglas to develop the new Fishman Jerry Douglas Aura resonator guitar pedal, which yields a sound more typical of a microphone, without the feedback issue of a microphone. The pickup and Aura pedal are included in this package. Read more about it right here. (SOLD) (DD) SOLD
Beard Model E
Maple Squareneck
(SOLD) (NEW) - The tremendous Beard Model E resonator (SQUARENECK) - the one to go to war with. Big body open soundwell design - just the Big Daddy of wood resonators. We get six of these per year, yet very rarely have one in stock - these are the new Gold standard for bluegrass dobro. Rip yer face off loud, with a fullness and depth that other dobros just dream about. Absolutely amazing tiger stripe maple on this one! Looks like it just walked out of the jungle. Aggressive response, stellar tone, power that will be heard in even the hardest driving bands. Take no prisoners! SOLD
Beard Model E squareneck (SOLD) (USED) - Dead Mint condition!! Extremely unusual to have one of these available used! Pristine condition, beautiful flamed maple. Roaring full sound. Trade-in on a Collings mandolin. SOLD SOLD
Beard E model custom roundneck
Quilted mahogany and spruce with cutaway
(SOLD) (NEW) Two years in the making. A custom roundneck E body resonator from Paul Beard. Highly figured quilted mahogany back and sides, spruce top with aging toner, cutaway, Beard/Fishman pickup installed, Waverly tuners, and maple binding. Great sounding resonator, headed to our buddy Al in Austin! SOLD
Beard Mike Auldridge Model
Black Cherry
(NEW) We get just a few of these per year - and they usually go out as fast as they come in. Mike Auldridge himself plays and approves each of these and signs the label inside the guitar. Most of our other "Mikes" have been the standard black finish (over birch) - We went with the custom black cherry finish on this one because it looks fantastic - The Mike Auldridge model - speaks for itself - great sustain, warmth, and sweetness. For good reason, Beard's most popular model. This one is really AMAZING! Nothing quite like it. SOLD (EP) SOLD
Beard Mike Auldridge 6 string (SOLD) (NEW)Beard's best selling model - a collaboration between Paul Beard and the legendary Mike Auldridge. This fine squareneck features the large E-body made of vintage Finland Birch, a spun cone & cast aluminum spider atop an open body cavity with soundposts and bass baffle. Mother of pearl hearts & flowers inlaid onto an ebony fretboard, 25" scale, ivoroid bound body & neck, gloss cherry sunset finish, chrome hardware, dual screen holes, new style coverplate, includes shaped wooden hardshell case. Just a SUPERB sounding resophonic guitar! $3,700 SOLD
Beard E Body
Maple
(SOLD) (NEW) - The Big Daddy of squareneck resonator guitars from the dobro doctor himself, Paul Beard. It features solid quilted maple back, sides & top, flame maple neck, "E" body style (wider & deeper, with arched back), dual screenholes, "fan" coverplate, trapeze tailpiece, chrome hardware, on a full open body cavity (no soundwell) that makes for a huge sounding instrument with great roar and sustain. Includes hard shell TKL case. These are in high demand and never last a month - and....SOLD SOLD
Beard Model E (maple)
Squareneck
(SOLD)(NEW) We've been without this model for a long time, as they make very few and they sell quickly. We never feel like the inventory is complete without one - our best selling Beard model, the inimitable model E in flame maple. The one to go to war with. Big, bold, and bluegrassy. The new (2007) pricing includes some improved specs including Waverly tuners in place of Schaller. Price includes case. One powerful guitar. SOLD
Beard E body roundneck custom cutaway (SOLD) Recent arrival - E body custom ROUNDNECK - highly figured quilted mahogany with spruce top, tuned body cavity and cutaway. Room filling volume and tone. This "E" model fit our own Ernie Hawkins perfectly - see the pics as this one captured Ernie's heart and left with him. We will henceforth refer to it as the "Ernie Hawkins" model. SOLD
Beard Maple E body (SOLD) The Beard E body squareneck is the modern player's dream instrument. Powerful enough to cut through any band, this instrument re-defines the resonator guitar. The maple E body is pure power. You will be heard! We like to say (with the utmost respect) that Paul Beard is the Bill Collings of the resonator guitar world. This is a take-no-prisoners resonator guitar, the one to go to war with. A bargain at $3,600 - And this one, like all first round draft picks, was barely here long enough for us to get acquainted. SOLD! SOLD
Beard Model E mahogany (SOLD) (NEW) The Beard model E - the standard by which all other squareneck resophonic guitars are judged. This one in a fabulous red burst with great mahogany grain. Waverly tuners, magnificent sound. $3,700 SOLD
Beard Mike Auldridge Model
Cherry
(SOLD) (NEW) We get just a few of these per year - and they usually go out as fast as they come in. All our other "Mikes" have been the standard black finish (over birch) - We went with the custom cherry finish on this one and it looks fantastic - I hope the pics to justice to the figure on the back - The Mike Auldridge model - speaks for itself - great sustain, warmth, and sweetness. SOLD
Beard Vintage R model (SOLD) The Beard Vintage R squareneck capture the spirit and flavor of the classic resonator guitar of the 1930s. The beautifully grained satin finish stained birch veneer top, back, sides and open soundwell body design combine to produce a growling powerful bass and clear bright treble sound, perfect for traditional playing styles. The gracefully hand-shaped mahogany neck with a solid peg-head (and precision tuning machines), produces a desirable balance between sustain and decay. Vintage cherry satin finish. Really beautiful! SOLD
Beard Road-O-Phonic (SOLD) (NEW) Call it a travel dobro. Call it a lap steel. Call it a Lap Dawg. Call it a screaming little reso-phonic machine. Includes a dual pickup system: Fishman acoustic pickup and a Lace Sensor magnetic. 23" scale, 9" reso cone. Big sound in a small package. Sounds great acoustically and is reasonably loud as a travel/practice instrument but is designed to be plugged in. So plug it in! This one is a custom model in a quilted sapele mahogany and natural finish neck. includes shaped wooden hardshell case. Just plain fun. Insanely cool and a bargain at $1500 SOLD
Beard/Gold Tone Resophonic Metal Bodies (SOLD) The Paul Beard designed, Gold Tone manufactured, setup by Paul Beard, resophonic metal bodied guitars are here. These are fresh from the NAMM show - setup by Paul Beard - these first three are Paul Beard's own NAMM SHOW samples, brought immediately here after the show. The model GRS lists for $995 (steel body, 12 fret, 3.125" body thickness) GRE $1095 (steel body, thinline 2.125" body thickness with magnetic and transducer dual pickup system) and the deluxe GRB $1495 (brass body with ebony fretboard, maple headstock veneer, maple binding, cool hand etched island scene engraving and HSC). The GR series include Paul Beard (USA manuf.) cones, bone nuts, nickel plating, 12 point Beard U.S.A setup, sealed tuners, maple/ebony biscuits. Call for great prices. Check out the pic of Steve James who stopped by to test drive the GRE slimline. Note: The GRE and GRS have been SOLD. Note - The GRB (brass) has also been sold. SOLD
Beard Model R
Mahogany Squareneck
(SOLD) (USED) - The tremendous Beard Model R resonator (SQUARENECK) R body open soundwell design - perfectly balanced full bodied sound, a little warmer and sweeter ("vintage") toned than the maple E body - well suited for contemporary or traditional sounds. Full rich warm bass, mighty yet well mannered. This one is in "nearly new" condition. (Sold new 12 months ago for $2650) Pics soon. NICE!!! SOLD
Beard R body roundeneck (SOLD) Recent arrival - solid mahogany top, back, and sides. Curly maple binding and backstrip. Chrome plated brass parts. Open R body open soundwell design, ebony fretboard, spun cone, Schaller tuners and straplocks, bone nut, maple/ebony bridge, built and signed by Paul Beard 5/5/04. Rich even tone with plenty of volume. With factory installed Beard/Fishman pickup and endpin jack. Beautiful! This guitar is a shop favorite - hugely popular! Acoustic mayhem. Headed to Mission Viejo, CA. SOLD
Beard Mike Auldridge model (SOLD) Recent arrival - Mike Auldridge signature model (vintage Finland Birch top back and side construction) with "Legend Tone" tuned construction. E body with black gloss finish. The distinctive Auldridge signature sound, huge warm low end with very impressive sustain. Great reviews at IBMA and Merlefest! Loud and rich. Wow!! SOLD - headed to Fayetteville, GA. More on order. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Dreadnought (SOLD) (Exc. +++) Gadzooks! A Custom Dreadnought fit for Batman himself. "Dana Bourgeois strung this guitar up and pronounced it 'a kicking bluegrass guitar with LOUD, strong, clear bottom end, complex top end, that great crystalline tone ala Tony Rice'. Exotic Ziricote (Cordia dodencandra) back and sides with a European "Bearclaw" Spruce top, curly maple body bindings, gold Waverly open back tuners, satin finish neck with 1 and 23/32" nut width, zig zag backstrip, and an abalone rosette. Ziricote is most striking in appearance, with variegations much like the best old growth Brazilian rosewood and similar spider-webbing, pastoral scenes, and panoramas. Ziricote is heavier than most rosewoods, with a specific gravity of 0.95, it reminds us (visually and tonally) of Macassar Ebony and really good old Brazilian. We thought we liked Cocobolo until we met Ziricote. We had the chance to compare this guitar with a "reference" 1947 D28 recently. Everyone in the room agreed the Bourgeois was the better sounding guitar. Custom fit very cool fossil ivory bridge pins and strap button. Enough talk...this dark roast guitar is smokin! Makes our "top 10" list for the year. w/OHSC - Sorry to see this one go!! - To the Bat Cave, Robin! SOLD
Bourgeois JOM-150
Brazilian and Italian Spruce
(SOLD) (NEW) The JOM-150 is a new model from Dana Bourgeois and features a very fancy set of Presentation grade Brazilian rosewood with gold hardware and abalone rosette and a marvelous sounding Italian spruce top. (Premium grade Brazilian and premium grade Adirondack spruce)This Brazilian rosewood has lots of spider-webbing and complex figure. The guitar is simply beautiful. Tonally, the guitar is even more than you'd expect: rich, loud, and full but also uniquely responsive to even the lightest touch. The JOM is the perfect versatile size, and with these wood, this is an amazing guitar. $7,500 - It is SOLD (KK) SOLD
Bourgeois OM-150 Custom - Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) A spectacular premium Dana Bourgeois OM-150 ordered for store stock with a matching dreadnought to follow. Presentation grade BRAZILIAN rosewood and Dana's choice Adirondack spruce. Waverly tuners with wood (Snakewood) knobs, wood (curly koa) binding, abalone rosette, pyramid bridge, bone pins, 1 and 3/4" nut. Deluxe custom Brazilian OM! The wood has been selected, construction has begun. Smell that sweet smelling rosewood sawdust? ($8,500) SOLD
Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood Soloist SOLD (NEW) Dana Bourgeois' classic fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. A world class fingerstyle guitar. Some of the best Brazilian rosewood we've seen in years, saved for this Soloist, and an Italian spruce top that is simply amazing in both appearance and tonal texture. This, my friends, is a *SPECTACULAR* guitar. SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois Dana Bourgeois Signature D (SOLD) (NEW)Just purchased at the 2008 NAMM Show in Los Angeles, this Bourgoeis DB Signature dreadnought in presentation grade Madagascar Rosewood and Adirondack spruce. The best looking guitar at the NAMM Show and we were lucky to grab it! SOLD - $4,695 SOLD
Bourgeois D-150 Custom - Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) An equally spectacular *matching* premium grade Dana Bourgeois custom dreadnought. Presentation grade old growth BRAZILIAN rosewood and choice Adirondack spruce. Waverly tuners with wood (Snakewood) knobs, wood (curly koa) binding, abalone rosette, belly bridge, bone pins, 1 and 23/32" nut. Deluxe custom Brazilian dread! The wood is good, and the guitar arrived today. Just magnificent to look at and great sounding as well. A very special guitar. ($8,500) Buy the pair? SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois A-350 Archtop (violin burst) (SOLD) (NEW - and well worth the two year wait!) A-350 Archtop - Just arrived and *just* magnificent - the Bourgeois A350 archtop in curly maple and European spruce with tortoise body binding and Dana's killer jaw-dropping violin burst finish. Less than $6,000, I gotta say it...egregiously *underpriced* for an instrument of this quality. This is a positively flawless, gorgeous and magnificent sounding archtop. As our friend Ken would say, this guitar is an entire stick of butter. Sorry, we are giddy about this guitar, but this guitar has been sold to one very lucky architect! (JM) SOLD
Bourgeois A-350 (SOLD) (NEW) Oh my! A *superb* A-350 Dana Bourgeois archtop in violin finish sunburst. Generally, we can only count on one of these per year - and it's always a VERY good day when one arrives. These are one of the best buys in the guitar industry! Classic looks and a depth of tone that rivals the finest archtops ever made. I am reaching for the right adjective here...but can't quite do it justice. It's so.... perfect, that's it...I am compelled to say that "perfect" is the appropriate adjective. We are very proud to have this guitar in the store. SOLD
Bourgeois Soloist (SOLD) Dana Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood "Soloist" OM with cutaway. A highly regarded model with great provenance as Dana built the original Schoenberg Soloist guitars. Dana builds very few of these, and saves some of his best woods for this model. Presentation grade Brazilian rosewood, Adirondack spruce, gold Waverlies, pyramid bridge, rosewood binding, wood rosette. This one was built for the 2007 NAMM Show in Los Angeles, and we were pleased to snag it. It's exquisite but it is already spoken for. - SOLD (JJ) SOLD
Bourgeois Macassar ebony Soloist SOLD - (NEW) 2008 Summer NAMM Show guitar. The Soloist is a replica of the original Schoenberg that Dana & Eric Schoenberg built for Martin Guitars. The ultimate fingerstyle guitar. This version features the Original Soloist Cutaway on a body of *premium* Macassar Ebony & Italian Spruce. It also boasts of rosewood body binding with Soloist purflings and Soloist Wood rosette with short patterned squares & diamonds inlay. Original Soloist triangle heel inlay, 1 3/4" nut and ebony pyramid bridge, gold Waverly tuners with ebony Buttons. Another "one of a kind" set of wood from Dana Bourgeois. See the third picture in the associated photo. Bonni Lloyd tells us the figure in the wood makes it looks like "someone spilled a hot fudge sundae on the guitar!" Coming straight here from the NAMM Show in Nashville. $5,995 Quite unique and special. Should arrive here 6/26 SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Advanced Slope D
Premium Quilted Maple
SOLD - (NEW) 2008 Summer NAMM Show guitar. Custom Advanced Slope D/ Premium Quilted Maple and Premium Red "Adirondack" Spruce. Square head stock with fancy figured Brazilian veneer. Dana Bourgeois Signature backstrip. Triple bound Ivoroid binding on body, neck and headstock. 1 23/32 nut width. Bourgeois Floral Inlay. Nickel Ivoroid Waverlies. Bone bridge & end pins. Premium Bourgeois pickguard. The outer beauty of this blonde will be noticed by all, but what really will blow them away is the sound. Many believe Dana builds the best maple guitar out there. See the first picture in the associated photo. Please note, we consider this wood to be in the "one of a kind" category so we don't know when we could offer another guitar like this one. $5,295 - SOLD (MP) SOLD
Bourgeois Brazilian Vintage D D
Sunburst
SOLD (NEW)Dana Bourgeois seems to have anticipated the Brazilian rosewood shortage better than the other small shops. He still has a "small but very high quality" stash of the good wood. He also has some smaller sets that have been put to excellent use on custom guitars with FOUR piece backs (for Cody Kilby's new Vintage D for instance). This one will be a Brazilian rosewood Vintage D (with two piece back) and master grade Adirondack top with one of Dana's famous sunbursts! It will be a great guitar. $7,995 (CC) SOLD
Bourgeois Signature Dreadnought Deluxe
Premium Brazilian Rosewood
2006 NAMM show Dana Bourgeois # 4 If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on five of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. They will be shipped here after the Show (they will arrive here the week of July 20) Number Four will be a dreadnought Deluxe (14 fret mahogany dreadnought) of select INCREDIBLY STRAIGHT GRAINED BRAZILIAN rosewood and premium Eastern Adirondack spruce with (great looking!) curly maple body binding, signature multicolor herringbone purfling, signature wood rosette, IVORY square and diamond inlay and ebony belly bridge. 1 and 23/32" nut width, GOLD Waverlies, bone pins, and the envy of everyone around you. SOLD (DC) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Dreadnought (SOLD) Recent arrival (USED) (Exc.) Yoy! Things just keep getting better around here. What did Joe Namath used to say - "I can't wait until tomorrow because I get better looking every day?" - Well I can't wait to come into work every morning because the guitar inventory just gets better every day! What do we have here? For someone suffering from Guitar Acquisition Syndrome ("GAS") we present this high-octane sure-fire remedy. From Dana Bourgeois' "Luthier's Choice" series of a few years back, a Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce dreadnought guitar that plays like butter and sounds like thunder. This is wildly figured Brazilian with some sap wood and it really has a kind of a "player's" flavor. I don't expect this one to go to some speculator interested in Braz rosewood futures, I expect someone to buy this guitar and play the pants off the thing. On consignment - not expected to hang around long, a custom D from Dana B. OHSC, strap button, nickel Waverlies, came with ivoroid pins, we've swapped them out for black buffalo horn - nice tone! L.R. Baggs I-Beam (active) pickup installed. Ready to plug and play. SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois King Country Boy Deluxe (SOLD) (NEW) Dana's newest model - the "KING" Country Boy Deluxe - Highly figured "Big Quilt" Mahogany with *Master grade* (very tight grain) Eastern Red Adirondack spruce top, Adirondack spruce braces, maple bridge plate, gold hardware, cocobolo binding, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Greven pickguard, bone bridge pins, satin finish neck, and natural finish. What can we say - we saw this model at the NAMM Show and our jaws dropped - a very welcome addition to our stable of world-class mahogany guitars. A fabulous looking (and sounding) guitar. $5,000 - I hope you have us on speed - dial!! Fit for a KING! SOLD!! (WB) SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe (SOLD) A Dreadnought fit for Bryan Sutton himself. Country Boy Deluxe Figured mahogany back and sides, Adirondack spruce top. These are such cool guitars. The combination of mahogany and adirondack spruce is just plain magic. What else is there to say? Moe's House of Mahogany invites you to sample another fine example of the mojo of mahogany. This guitar plays like butter. Here's what Mike Wong says about this model: "Dana likens his dreads to a big OM, and that is an apt description. This guitar is not for the faint of heart or tentative players. But for aggressive players, the harder you hit it, the more it gives it back with a dry, woody, punchy mahogany tone with seemingly endless headroom. You can hear Bryan Sutton play an identical guitar on his new CD 'Bluegrass Guitar'. " SOLD - This Country Boy is moving to Oxfordshire, England! SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe (SOLD) A fine and exotic high end dreadnought from Dana Bourgeois. This Country Boy Deluxe features heavily quilted mahogany back and sides, rosewood binding, Gold Waverlies, a dazzling Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay, and that perfect 1 and 23/32" nut width. This guitar has one of the wildest "bearclaw" tops I have ever seen, and it's Adirondack spruce! Adirondack with this figure is rare indeed! Tone? This guitar is a monster. Loud, hard, fat, and rich. Play Wildwood Flower on this thing and it sounds like Bryan Sutton is in the room. This one went to a very good home indeed. SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage Country Boy
Hide Glue
(SOLD) (NEW) We're well known for our custom mahogany dreadnoughts here. This is one of our "Vintage Country Boy" prototypes - with hide glue construction, premium Adirondack spruce, and banjo killer double scalloped bracing, with ebony bridge pins and ebony butt wedge. A *WONDERFUL* sounding light (4.0 pounds) dreadnought guitar with a lot of subtlety and character. More bass than a standard Country Boy, with additional warmth, sizzle, and sustain. Is it the bracing? Is it the glue? I suppose it's a bit of both. Dana's hybrid braced guitars are known for articulate bass, perfect balance, and responsiveness up and down the neck. That's why so many top players use them on stage and in the studio. With this custom project, we're thinking about the guy in the parking lot, the guy who wants buckets of volume, woofy bass, and headroom without losing those fat trebles. SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Adirondack
Hide Glue
(SOLD) (NEW) So that we could have an interesting A-B comparison here, Dana built us this Country Boy with hide glue, but retained the standard Country Boy bracing. So you can drive, or fly, over here (hurry!) and try a standard Country Boy, this standard Country Boy (#4705) built with hide glue, and our "Vintage" (#4704 - hide glue double scalloped bracing) Country Boy and leave with your favorite. The guitar pictured here is the hide glue Country Boy with ivoroid bridge pins, Brazilian rosewood heel cap and mahogany butt wedge. This one has a slightly tighter bass than the Vintage CB, and we can feel the glue working. An exceptionally good guitar. Warm with great depth and complexity. List Price: $4,150 SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage OM Custom (SOLD) Vintage OM with Madagascar Rosewood ("MadRose") back and sides and superb Adirondack spruce top. Pretty exciting stuff. Oy!! It just keeps getting better around here. I am not kidding...A brilliantly executed orchestra model guitar with the rare blend of Madagascar rosewood and Master grade Adirondack spruce. The Madagascar has nice dark flecks. 1 and 3/4" nut width, ebony rectangular pyramid bridge (nice touch!!) and just a nice, light, right feeling guitar. A slam-dunk bargain price for an exotic heirloom guitar! If it lasts a month, I'll eat my hat. Fresh pics - you've heard about Dana's reputation for finding great Adirondack spruce? Well, check it out! As for the Madagascar rosewood, here are Dana's comments on it: "Madagascar rosewood will probably get you closest to the sound of Brazilian, and at a *much* lower price. Madagascar has much of the same rich overtone range as Brazilian, as well as a slightly "reverby" quality. It's a little heavier than Brazilian, so I have to be careful about selecting the right top and the right neck in order to keep the weight down and not adversly effect its response characteristics." How about a whole guitar for about the upcharge price for Brazilian alone? This guitar has all the right stuff. Great clarity, minimal crosstalk, great spunk. Top Ten stuff. Some builders charge $1,500 for Madagascar rosewood - Dana's got a stash and has been holding it at $700! Get it while it lasts. Sorry, SOLD. SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC
Claro Walnut
(SOLD) G-r-e-a-t sounding custom Jumbo OM with soft cutaway and figured Claro walnut back and sides, Englemann spruce top. 1 and 3/4" nut width, great for flatpick or fingerstyle, strong and full. Very fast satin finish neck, gold Waverly tuners. Feels great, with no "new" guitar stiffness. Nice! This guitar is featured on Pantheon's website as "Guitar of the Week". We agree! SOLD - these Bourgeois guitars are flying out of here. Lots more on order. Wow, if this is what he's been up to...we can't wait to see what Dana Bourgeois has cooked up for the NAMM show. SOLD
Bourgeois The Cigar Box
OMS - Cuban Mahogany
(SOLD) NAMM show Dana Bourgeois #1 *The Cigar Box* If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on five of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. They will be shipped here after the Show (they will arrive here the week of July 20) Numero Uno will be an OMS (12 fret slothead) of CUBAN Mahogany and Adirondack spruce with herringbone trim, "medium" sunburst, KOA and black binding, koa heel cap, and pyramid bridge. 1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverlies (3 on a plate) with ivoroid knobs. Bone pins, vintage pickguard. Moe can't wait for this one - he's never met a mahogany (or 12 fret) guitar he doesn't like, and Dana tells him CUBAN mahogany is special! ("...this Cuban Mahogany is denser than South American Mahogany and tends to lean a little towards the rosewoods in tone. Fundamentally *mahogany* but with more mid-range fullness & a quicker response.") A one-of-a-kind. No brainer. Saw it at the NAMM show - and it's the one that made the trip worthwhile! Note - Dana changed the specs at the last moment (luthier's artistic license we'll call it) to include a pickguard, and the best Waverly-Sloane bronze patina tuners with snakewood knobs. The guitar is not likely to last the first weekend. Moe would like to keep it himself! Many inquiries already, we are waiting for Fidel to call, but we hear he is under the weather - who will get this prize? (BM) SOLD
Bourgeois OM-150
Premium Brazilian Rosewood
2006 NAMM show Dana Bourgeois # 5 If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on five of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. They will be shipped here after the Show (they will arrive here the week of July 20) Number Five will be an OM-150 (deluxe 14 fret OM) of highly figured *premium* highly figured BRAZILIAN rosewood (lots of spider webbing and coloration) and super-premium Eastern Adirondack spruce. B/W/B top border (no herringbone) 1 and 3/4" nut width, abalone rosette, rosewood and pinstripe fretboard binding, ebony *pyramid* bridge (love that feature!) Just an absolute *killer* price for an OM like this with premium tonewoods. A real *keeper* and a *steal* at $6,995 - It has been stolen. SOLD
Bourgeois D-150 Custom - Brazilian (SOLD)(NEW) Premium Dana Bourgeois Brazilian dreadnought. AAA grade "Wild" BRAZILIAN rosewood and Adirondack spruce with Dana's "in-between" (medium) sunburst finish. Gold Waverly tuners, ivoroid binding, abalone rosette. One of the finest dreadnoughts we've ever offered. Almost scary good. Just amazing to look at with tone to match. One of our favorite guitars to come through the shop this year. Headed to San Francisco! ($7,695) SOLD
Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood Soloist (SOLD) (USED) Dana Bourgeois' classic fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. A world class fingerstyle guitar. We sold this one two years ago, after it had been on display at the 2007 NAMM Show. This is a fine presentation grade Brazilian rosewood Soloist with a high grade Adirondack spruce top. It is beautiful and it is priced to sell quickly. SOLD (KP) SOLD
Bourgeois OM-150 custom - Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) To send 2006 (a year where we were proud to be Dana Bourgeois' top dealer) out with a bang we've ordered this *exquisite* Bourgeois OM-150 guitar with what the Bourgeois folks humbly refer to as "beyond premium grade" Brazilian rosewood. An incredible value at $7295.00 - Sorry, it's SOLD (JF) SOLD
Bourgeois OMS - Madagascar Rosewood (SOLD) (NEW) A delightful 12 fret slothead 000 with standard (long) scale length. The 12 fret neck puts the bridge further down these long bodies and provides a fuller low end and sweet lower midrange that you can not get from a 14 fret OM guitar! The MadRose/Adi combination makes it sing! Lush fingerstyle guitar with great overtone, presence, and balance. Beautiful woods, stellar workmanship, great neck. Could be "the one." A dream! SOLD
Bourgeois Signature D - Madagascar Rosewood (SOLD) Special order - Premium Dana Bourgeois signature model in Madagascar rosewood with premium Adirondack spruce top and curly maple binding. 1 and 23/32" nut width. Beautiful Madagascar Roseood dreadnought with big sound - great tight expressive bass and brilliant fat trebles - and marvelous playability. Very exotic, quite close to very good Brazilian rosewood in appearance and tone. This guitar speaks for itself. SOLD(BW) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Dreadnought (SOLD) (USED) With the supply of Brazilian rosewood dwindling each year, we are always on the lookout for good Brazilian rosewood guitars. Lookout!! We have been accused of being hairy armed bluegrassers here and we'd say this is a hairy armed bluegrasser's guitar. Big on the ka-changg, nicely balanced, loud and clear. A fine guitar, a real picker's delight. There's something magical about Brazilian rosewood. You know there is. Here's an opportunity, plain and simple, to own a VERY good used Brazilian rosewood dreadnought while you still can. Great price! SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC Deluxe
Mad Rose and Bearclaw
(SOLD) (NEW) Continuing our current fascination with Dana Bourgeois' amazing guitars, a very special order for a great overseas customer. The versatile and highly revered Bourgeois JOMC Deluxe in (increasingly hard to acquire and well worth the search) Madagascar Rosewood topped with a select set of premium wide grain *bearclaw* sitka spruce, chosen by Dana for this guitar. Snakehead headstock with ebony overlay and maple binding, with very curly maple binding also adorning the neck and body, fancy floral pattern pearl inlay, and dazzling abalone as well. Add gold where it ought to be, and bone where it matters, just a visual and tonal feast. Magnificent guitar, on its way to Singapore! ( Thanks JZ !) SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage Country Boy
Hide Glue
(SOLD) (NEW) We're well known for our custom mahogany dreadnoughts here. This is one of our "Vintage Country Boy" prototypes - with hide glue construction, premium Adirondack spruce, and banjo killer double scalloped bracing, with ebony bridge pins and ebony butt wedge. A *WONDERFUL* sounding light (4.0 pounds) dreadnought guitar with a lot of subtlety and character. More bass than a standard Country Boy, with additional warmth, sizzle, and sustain. Is it the bracing? Is it the glue? I suppose it's a bit of both. Dana's hybrid braced guitars are known for articulate bass, perfect balance, and responsiveness up and down the neck. That's why so many top players use them on stage and in the studio. With this custom project, we're thinking about the guy in the parking lot, the guy who wants buckets of volume, woofy bass, and headroom without losing those fat trebles. List Price: $4,350 SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Adirondack
Hide Glue
(SOLD) (NEW) So that we could have an interesting A-B comparison here, Dana built us this Country Boy with hide glue, but retained the standard Country Boy bracing. So you can drive, or fly, over here (hurry!) and try a standard Country Boy, this standard Country Boy (#4705) built with hide glue, and our "Vintage" (#4704 - hide glue double scalloped bracing) Country Boy and leave with your favorite. The guitar pictured here is the hide glue Country Boy with ivoroid bridge pins, Brazilian rosewood heel cap and mahogany butt wedge. This one has a slightly tighter bass than the Vintage CB, and we can feel the glue working. An exceptionally good guitar. Warm with great depth and complexity. SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy
Adirondack top
(SOLD) (NEW) standard Country Boy dreadnought - nothing "standard" about this Country Boy - Mahogany with premium Adirondack spruce top. Light guitar with a marvelous neck. Maple bridge plate, 1 and 23/32" nut width. Bang for the buck - nothing can touch these "standard" CB's !! Batter up. Ding! SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Country Boy
Adirondack top (pale sunburst)
(SOLD) (NEW) another simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g Bourgeois Country Boy mahogany dreadnought souped up with optional Adirondack top and Pale sunburst finish. These are always good clean fun. Good basic mahogany dreads dressed up in sunburst in Dana Bourgeois' unique and understated way. Light and spanky dreadnoughts that remind us of good 1950's Martins. Nice and tight and clear, very pleasantly balanced with that great feeling 1 and 23/32" neck. Already got you that herringbone? A perfect "second" guitar for you then - and the burst speaks for itself. We jazzed this one up with great aged looking bone bridge pins and a deluxe custom pickguard and figured headstock overlay. SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe
pale sunburst - custom
(SOLD) (NEW) a Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe (with figured mahogany and "premium" Adirondack spruce) with rosewood bindings and bone pins, souped up with Dana's pale sunburst finish, and vintage ivoroid knobs on gold Waverly tuners. Just an AMAZING looking guitar with exotic multi-toned headstock overlay of (where did he find this??) Brazilian rosewood and matching two-toned heel cap (nice touch, Dana!) - just a drop dead gorgeous sunburst with perfect fit and finish all over and GREAT sound!! That art school that Dana's folks sent him to is paying off!! Too cold to get outside today - the pix really don't do it justice - but just a magnificent guitar. SOLD! SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy (Sunburst) (SOLD) (USED) Coming in on trade - a standard Bourgeois Country Boy (sitka top) in sunburst. These are always good clean fun. Good basic mahogany dreads dressed up in sunburst in Dana Bourgeois' unique and understated way. $2250 SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe
Pale SUNBURST
(SOLD) Special order - Country Boy Deluxe - Figured Mahogany with premium Adirondack spruce top, Adirondack spruce braces, maple bridge plate, gold hardware, rosewood binding, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Greven pickguard, bone bridge pins, satin finish neck, and pale sunburst finish. We love these great mahogany flatpicking guitars, and try to always have one or two here and one in the pipeline. There's only one thing better than having a Country Boy Deluxe in stock, and that's having two, plus a pair of standard Country Boys. C'mon by and play and coax a little Whiskey Before Breakfast out of a couple of custom Collings D1As, a CW-18, a Huss & Dalton TDM or two, a Martin D18GE and a Bourgeois CB and CB Deluxe. If you can't find something in that brat pack of flatpicking guitars to please you, then we are embarrased to know you. It is such a pleasure to have these fine guitars. What a Golden Age this is! ETA: Just arrived - fresh pics! Sorry - SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy
Custom Sunburst
(SOLD) Sunburst Custom Country Boy. Straight grain mahogany with *Bearclaw* figured sitka top, the perfect 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverly tuners, tiny MOP dots and one of Dana's famous bursts! Just arrived, and she is a beauty.The sunburst really brings out the bearclaw, and Dana Bourgeois really brings out the tone. Just a sweet sounding mahogany dreadnought. Light, not overpowering, but extremely well balanced, punchy, and dry. Just plain fun to play. Sorry, SOLD. Only lasted one day! SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy Deluxe (SOLD) (NEW) Country Boy Deluxe - Figured Mahogany with premium Adirondack spruce top, Adirondack spruce braces, maple bridge plate, gold hardware, rosewood binding, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, 1 and 23/32" nut width, Greven pickguard, bone bridge pins, satin finish neck, and natural finish. We love these great flatpicking guitars, and try to always have one here and one in the pipeline. This one is as great as the last one, which was as great as the one before it. It is such a pleasure to have these fine guitars. This one plays like butter, a little sweeter, less stiff, with less bite than the fiercest mahogany dreadnoughts - a very welcome addition to our stable of world-class mahogany guitars. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom OM (SOLD) (NEW) Wow! The very coolest thing to follow us home from the recent NAMM Show!! Simply magnificent looking and sounding 2006 NAMM Show Dana Bourgeois Custom OM - AAA grade quilted Brazilian *mahogany* with "premium" grade Adirondack spruce top and that killer Bourgeois sunburst. Just jaw-droppingly pretty with curly koa binding, gold plated Waverly tuners and snakewood knobs, square headstock with highly figured Brazilian headstock overlay, pyramid bridge, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. Built specifically for the 2006 NAMM Show in Los Angeles. We cannot say enough good things about this guitar. Flatpick, fingerstyle. Blues, flatpicking, DADGAD, eeegad. This guitar does it all and makes the player three inches taller and better looking at the same time. Just a remarkable guitar that sounds as good as it looks and looks as good as it sounds. $5,500 Sorry - SOLD. We hate to see this one go. SOLD
Bourgeois OMC custom - rosewood (SOLD) (NEW) Dana Bourgeois rosewood OM with soft cutaway. This guitar has an interesting story. One of our best customers wanted to build the ultimate comfortable and classy fingerstyle OM that could also handle a light flatpicking attack, maybe 10% of the time. After much discussion with the customer and builder, we decided on this custom OMC spec'd with master grade woods sourced specifically for this guitar - premium select dense East Indian rosewood ($150 upcharge), premium *stiff* Englemann spruce ($200 upcharge), Gold Waverlies with ebony knobs, pyramid bridge, Soloist-style rosewood binding ($500 upcharge) and wood rosette and premium pickguard. A brilliantly appointed and handsome custom OM with a certain light bluesy, call it jazzy, attitude. The light warmth and responsiveness of a fine fingerstyle OM, but at the same time a "fingerstyle" guitar that is not afraid of a flatpick. A mid size guitar with a very big voice. A beautiful guitar that likes to be played. A guitar with *surprising* presence. While the guitar was being built, the customer decided he wanted to change the order to a Brazilian rosewood Soloist. Far be it from us to discourage someone from buying a Brazilian rosewood guitar - so we did build a second guitar of Brazilian but kept this order intact and we are glad we did as this guitar turned out precisely as we had hoped (and it is priced $4000 less than the comparable Brazilian version). A *magnificent* OMC. SOLD
Bourgeois OM Custom Sunburst (SOLD) A custom order - Sunburst Custom OM to match the killer Country Boy SB above but on this one we selected nice flame figured mahogany with another *Bearclaw* figured sitka top,1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverly tuners, tortoise binding, tiny MOP dots, a special Greven pickguard, a pyramid bridge, and one of Dana's fabulous bursts! Like the CB above, this OM is light and balanced and very dry. A real easy playing guitar. This completes the set! One beautiful guitar. Sorry, SOLD. Headed for Taiwan, ROC. SOLD
Bourgeois Bourgeois Blues
Slope D - All Mahogany
(NEW) We had a few of these (all koa and all mahogany) back in the early 90's ourselves and Dana is energized that we are going to resurrect the model with some 2006 flair! This new one will have "figured old harvest mahogany" ($500 upcharge) specially selected by Dana for tone (including the old harvest mahogany top). Tonally, we visit Leadbelly's closet with a "special" (modified ladder with a longitudinal brace on the treble side of the soundhole from which the ladders exend) braced slope D - designed for old time, blues and bottleneck style playing. This old and new at the same time custom guitar will have the modern 1 and 23/32" nut width and radiused fretboard (some of the early Bourgeois Blues had flat fretboards for Hawaiian style playing) and some other upgrades (highly figured flame koa binding, custom wood rosette, snakehead headstock with BRAZILIAN rosewood veneer, GOLD Waverly tuners with snakewood knobs, and BRAZILIAN rosewood fretboard and BRAZILIAN rosewood belly bridge, again for *tone*.) Ask Ry Cooder, your collection is not all it can be until you have you one of these. Very RARE!! We really love these guitars. We got de Bourgeois Blues....Dana calls this a shockingly beautiful guitar and an absolutely*great* slack key, open tuning or Drop D guitar that is ideal for someone who mixes flatpick, fingerstyle, and bottleneck. The Bourgeois website posted it as their Guitar of the Week. Indeed! We're all mighty excited, but Moe is just beside himself. SOLD
Bourgeois "The Banjo Killer" (SOLD) (NEW) - For Dana Bourgeois' 30th Anniversary - a special edition run of thirty instruments modeled after the famous and highly revered 1995 Bourgeois custom slope D which Bryan Sutton has dubbed his "banjo killer." A slope D of very nicely figured mahogany with premium *bearclaw* sitka spruce top, red spruce bracing, maple bridge plate, ivoroid binding, snakehead headstock with Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, Brazilian rosewood belly bridge and Brazilian rosewood fretboard (very nice!!), 1 and 23/32" nut width, old style handmade pickguard, satin finish neck, nickel Waverlies, and natural finish. Bryan Sutton has really distinguished himself as one of the top flatpickers in the business and this guitar, like Bryan, is a natural. Only thirty of these guitars will be built, and the labels will be signed by Bryan Sutton and Dana Bourgeois. We're in line for two of them, scheduled for early March 2006 and early April 2006, (the second will be sunburst) and we are very pleased indeed! Alright then - Let's kill a few banjos! This guitar is a "ten" on the cool meter. Big "old" sound...equally at home with country blues as with bluegrass flatpicking. Think Gibson slope D, think old time crushing volume, think fundamental oomph and roar. Boom, chuck! Kinda dark, kinda bright, kinda deep with great snap....we don't know exactly what to make of this guitar, but we can't stop playing it! We are pleased to see this very guitar featured on the Pantheon/Bourgeois website as "Guitar of the Week". We have to agree. Everyone who picks it up sounds different on it, and everyone sounds good. The banjos, meanwhile, have all scattered like scaredy cats toward the back of the store. SOLD
Bourgeois "The Banjo Killer"
Pale Sunburst (custom)
(SOLD) (NEW) ETA: March 2006 - For Dana Bourgeois' 30th Anniversary - a special edition run of thirty instruments modeled after the famous and highly revered 1995 Bourgeois custom slope D which Bryan Sutton has dubbed his "Banjo Killer." A slope D (just like the other Banjo Killer described above) of generously figured flame mahogany with premium wide grain *bearclaw* sitka spruce top, red spruce bracing, maple bridge plate, ivoroid binding, snakehead headstock with Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, Brazilian rosewood belly bridge and Brazilian rosewood fretboard (nice!!), 1 and 23/32" nut width, old style handmade pickguard, satin finish neck....yeehaw....but this one will have ivoroid knobbed nickel Waverlies, and that almost scary cool and sensuous pale sunburst finish that Dana is known for. Bryan Sutton has really distinguished himself as one of the top flatpickers in the business and this guitar, like Bryan, is the real deal. Only thirty of these guitars will be built, and the labels will be signed by Bryan Sutton and Dana Bourgeois. Feeling collectible? This, to date, is the only sunburst version of the Banjo Killer. A very beautiful, unusual and extremely exotic sunburst. Let the force be with you. If I were a banjo, I'd be nervous. $4,850 (Custom sunburst) - SOLD before it arrived. Holy Bearclaw Batman Mighty, Mighty fine guitar!! Just a killer sunburst for a "killer" guitar. Just sit yourself down before this thing makes your knees weak and your banjos tremble. Man oh man, this thing is a Tequila Sunrise. Game Over - Banjos Dead. One happy family waiting for this one to arrive Friday. (VM) SOLD
Bourgeois "The Banjo Killer"
Pale Sunburst (custom)
(SOLD) (NEW) Dana has relented and let us have another sunburst version of the 30th Anniversary Banjo Killer slope D guitars like this original pale sunburst Banjo Killer . It will be the second of two of the sunburst Banjo Killers. We expect it to be sold LONG before it arrives. Indeed! Sorry - this guitar is SOLD. What a marvelous guitar - great Brazilian rosewood bridge and fretboard, gorgeous sunburst over an evenly distributed bearclaw top - just a pleasure to behold. We took a really nice banjo on trade on this Banjo Killer guitar - curiously appropriate, wouldn't you say? (Sold) (BM) SOLD
Bourgeois "The Banjo Killer"
Pale Sunburst (custom)
(SOLD) (NEW) - For Dana Bourgeois' 30th Anniversary - a special edition run of thirty instruments modeled after the famous and highly revered 1995 Bourgeois custom slope D which Bryan Sutton has dubbed his "banjo killer." Well...Well!! We just got off the phone with the Bourgeois folks (and great folks they are!) and here's the scoop: Since we sold more of the Banjo Killers than anyone else, they have graciously decided to give us the last of the batch (#30 of 30) in recognition of all the banjos we've helped to kill. A prestigious prize indeed. So if you've got one more pesky banjo that you've been unable to eradicate....run to your phone and call and reserve this last weapon of mass distinction. Note: We apologize to several folks who called and asked if more BK's were coming. We did not expect to get another so PLEASE call back. We're back in the banjo killing bidness!! We've decided to make this last one a PALE SUNBURST - we sure love that look, and there are only two others like it (both came through here) $ 4845.00 ETA: early November - Sorry, the last Banjo Killer is RESERVED! (SS) SOLD
Bourgeois The Cigar Box
OMS - Cuban Mahogany
(USED) NAMM show Bourgeois #1 *The Cigar Box* If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on five of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. This is an OMS (12 fret slothead) of CUBAN Mahogany and Adirondack spruce with herringbone trim, "medium" sunburst, KOA and black binding, koa heel cap, and pyramid bridge. 1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverlies (3 on a plate) with ivoroid knobs. Bone pins, vintage pickguard. Dana tells us CUBAN mahogany is special! ("...this Cuban Mahogany is denser than South American Mahogany and tends to lean a little towards the rosewoods in tone. Fundamentally *mahogany* but with more mid-range fullness & a quicker response.") A one-of-a-kind. No brainer.We sold this one new last year and it is back on consgnment as we build another custom guitar for its owner(BM)This is a great sounding exotic mahogany guitar - goes flatpick or fingerstyle equally well. Superb guitar. SOLD(BD) SOLD
Bourgeois Bourgeois Blues
Slope D - All Mahogany
(USED) We had this custom model built in 2006. This Bourgeois Blues Slope D has "figured old harvest mahogany" ($500 upcharge) specially selected by Dana for tone (including the old harvest mahogany top). Tonally, we visit Leadbelly's closet with a "special" (modified ladder with a longitudinal brace on the treble side of the soundhole from which the ladders exend) braced slope D - designed for old time, blues and bottleneck style playing. This custom blues guitar will have the modern 1 and 23/32" nut width and radiused fretboard (some of the early Bourgeois Blues had flat fretboards for Hawaiian style playing) and some other upgrades (highly figured flame koa binding, custom wood rosette, snakehead headstock with BRAZILIAN rosewood veneer, GOLD Waverly tuners with snakewood knobs, and BRAZILIAN rosewood fretboard and BRAZILIAN rosewood belly bridge, again for *tone*.) Ask Ry Cooder, your collection is not all it can be until you have you one of these. Very RARE!! We really love these guitars. We got de Bourgeois Blues....Dana calls this a shockingly beautiful guitar and an absolutely*great* slack key, open tuning or Drop D guitar that is ideal for someone who mixes flatpick, fingerstyle, and bottleneck. We find it works well with medium gauge tuned one step low (to D.) The Bourgeois website posted it as their Guitar of the Week. Indeed! We're all mighty excited, but Moe is just beside himself. SOLD
Bourgeois Bourgeois Blues
Slope D
(SOLD) (USED) Moe welcomes yet another HOG top classic! This one is a custom Dana Bourgeois Slope D. We've known the blues and we've had several of these Bourgeois Blues guitars, often in mahogany and once in koa. We're told that Ry Cooder is particularly fond of his Blourgeois Blues guitar. Generally this model is a highly specialized ladder braced blues guitar designed primarily for bottleneck use. This particular one has HIGHLY figured mahogany (Old Moe LOVES this mahogany) all over and X bracing inside, so it's more of a general purpose flat top. Moe loves playing big old strumming chords on it. G Em C D. Sta-ay just a little bit long-er. It's warm, it's strong. It's a late night we've been drinking guitar, one more round before the sun comes up, wahhddya say? It can be played hard and it is forgiving and smooth all the way to the top. When it tops out, it is still warm, it doesn't get shrill like an over-driven spruce top. It is a singularly woody and wonderful guitar. It also has an L.R. Baggs Active Element pickup in it, so you can plug it in and play out. Looks cool, and sounds as good as it looks. Plays well with others. At home in almost any musical environment. Trust Moe, it'll cure any blues you've got. ON CONSIGNMENT - SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois OM Custom
Country Girl
(SOLD) (USED) This is a custom OM configured like Dana's Country Boy Deluxe dreadnought: highly figured quilted mahogany back and sides, Adirondack spruce top, rosewood binding, gold hardware. This one also has Dana Bourgeois' own dual source acoustic pickup installed. Great little gigging OM, goes fingerstyle and flatpick equally well. Excellent++ condition with case. SOLD(JL) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom OMS 12 fret (USED) NAMM GUITAR 2005 NAMM GUITAR - MAGNIFICENT custom OMS 12 Fret Slothead. (Guitar featured on Pantheon's website as Guitar of the Week in 2005) 12 Fret OM. East Indian Rosewood & AAA grade (where does Dana find this stuff? Please share some with the other builders!) Adirondack spruce. Slothead headstock. 1 3/4" nut width 25.5" scale. Ivoroid/ Herringbone body binding. Ebony Pyramid Bridge. B/W vintage rosette. Zig Zag backstrip. Squares & Diamonds inlay. Ivoroid button engraved bronze patina Sloan side mount tuners. No pickguard. S-w-e-e-t 12 fret warmth and sustain with all that standard scale zing. What sound! Built specially for display at the 2005 NAMM convention in Anaheim - sold here new last year - traded back on an upgrade to a VERY special Brazilian rosewood guitar. We are pleased to have this VERY clean GREAT sounding guitar back in the shop! - SOLD (GF) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Dreadnought (SOLD) (USED) With the supply of Brazilian rosewood dwindling each year, we are always on the lookout for good Brazilian rosewood guitars. Lookout!! We have been accused of being hairy armed bluegrassers here and we'd say this is a hairy armed bluegrasser's guitar. Big on the ka-changg, nicely balanced, loud and clear. A fine guitar, a real picker's delight. There's something magical about Brazilian rosewood. You know there is. Here's an opportunity, plain and simple, to own a VERY fine used Brazilian rosewood dreadnought while you still can. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Dreadnought LC-5 (SOLD) (USED) What did Joe Namath used to say - "I can't wait until tomorrow because I get better looking every day?" - Well I can't wait to come into work every morning because the guitar inventory just gets better every day! Just arrived, for someone suffering from Guitar Acquisition Syndrome ("GAS") we present this high-octane sure-fire remedy. From Dana Bourgeois' "Luthier's Choice" series of a few years back, a Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce dreadnought guitar that plays like butter and sounds like thunder. This is nicely figured Brazilian bound in tortoise and it really has a kind of a "player's" flavor. Sort of a "Brazilian Rosewood Country Boy". I don't expect this one to go to some speculator interested in Braz rosewood futures, I expect someone to buy this guitar and play the pants off the thing. On consignment - not expected to hang around long, a custom Braz D from Dana B. This is second of these that we have handled -There's something magical about Brazilian rosewood. You know there is. Here's an opportunity, plain and simple, to own a VERY fine used Brazilian rosewood dreadnought while you still can. Great price! SOLD
Bourgeois (Custom)
"Vintage" Country Boy
SOLD (NEW) We're pretty well known for our custom mahogany dreadnoughts here. Moe, of Moe's House of Mahogany, has spec'd out a few hundred of the finest custom mahogany dreadnoughts in the form of Collings D1As, Huss & Dalton TDMs, Bourgeois Country Boys, and a mess of good vintage and modern D18s. And we've seen our share of NGCs, SCs, and all the rest. Well here's our latest: a super secret skunkworks project between Moe and Dana Bourgeois. It will be a "Vintage" Country Boy with Honduran mahogany back and sides, Adirondack spruce top, double scalloped "Banjo Killer" X bracing (inspired by and based on the popular Bourgeois Banjo Killer series) all tied together with a few new tricks and HIDE GLUE construction. 1 and 23/32" nut width, tortoise binding, ebony bridge pins, vintage stain, satin finish neck, mahogany butt wedge, Waverly tuners, set up for bluegrass flatpicking. A lightly built (just under 4.2 pounds) traditional foward shifted dreadnought. Dana's hybrid braced guitars are known for articulate bass, perfect balance, and responsiveness up and down the neck. That's why so many top players use them on stage and in the studio. With this custom project, we're thinking about the guy in the parking lot, the guy who wants buckets of volume, woofy bass, and headroom without losing those fat trebles. This will be the prototype. The list price will be $4,450 - Just arrived: A *WONDERFUL* sounding guitar with a lot of subtlety and character. More bass than a standard Country Boy, with additional warmth and sustain. The more we play it, the more nuance we discover - really a great *player's* guitar - really has nice snap and growl. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Brazilian Rosewood Soloist SOLD (NEW) Dana Bourgeois' classic (historic, really) fingerstyle guitar, the Soloist. Dana located, after an extended search, a set of premium, classic, dead straight old growth Brazilian rosewood for us, the likes of which we have not seen in five years. To that we add master grade European spruce. True "Soloist worthy" wood, as Dana B. calls it. So what we've got here is a custom Soloist (ebony binding, nickel Waverlies with ebony knobs) ready to change the life of its lucky recipient. We get to handle lots of great guitars. Even by our high standards, this guitar is exceptional. With premium Brazilian rosewood availability at a critical low, you know what a find this is. The day we found out about this set, the guitar went RESERVED (JF)This guitar is extraordinary. It vibrates in your lap when you play it. Notes pour off the back and into the ribcage and heart of the player. It is amazingly responsive and rich. An immediate classic. One of the ten best guitars to come through the shop in the last year. Perhaps the finest fingerstyle guitar on the market. SOLD
Bourgeois Slope D Sunburst
Mahogany
(SOLD) Slope D - Your basic mahogany slope D with premium Adirondack spruce top and one of Dana's famous sunbursts. These always go quickly. Many feel this is Dana's best guitar - a mahogany slope D with snakehead headstock. The proverbial banjo killer! These are very light, loud and large voiced guitars. Beautifully executed throughout. Dana Bourgeois paints with wood. Very attractively priced sunburst/adirondack topped guitar. Compare this with some $4,900 custom guitars! List Price: $3,495 Sorry, SOLD - Headed for Conway, Arkansas! SOLD
Bourgeois Slope D
Mahogany/Adirondack top (sunburst)
(SOLD) (NEW) One of our favorite Bourgeois models. Dana's version of the classic sunburst slope D. (Custom model - square headstock) 1 and 23/32" nut width. Compare to a Collings CJMhA. Wow! Light as feathers, sweet as candy. A really pretty guitar with a great Gibsonesque woodiness and balance. Great neck. Killer tonewoods. Almost sinfully well crafted, it's hard to get past the physical beauty of this guitar and dig in and rip like we should with our metal fingerpicks. This thing needs a few dings to get past that untrodden snow perfection and hesitation. It's like polished glass. Every cliche: plays like butter, plays itself, from God's hand to your ears - this guitar needs no flowery description. Pure guitar goodness. A clear winner. SOLD
Bourgeois Jumbo OM Deluxe
Mahogany
(SOLD) (NEW) "Deluxe" indeed ! A Dana Bourgeois JOM in very nicely figured mahogany with *premium* Adirondack spruce top and that purrrfect 1 and 23/32" nut width. Trimmed like a Country Boy Deluxe with rosewood body binding, wood rosette, square headstock with diamond volute, by special request, a beautiful two faced rosewood headstock overlay, gold Waverly open back tuners, Greven pickguard, bone bridge pins) Hey! Why doesn't everyone elses Adirondack look like Dana's? This stuff is gorgeous. This jumbo OM is a match for most dreadnoughts. Flatpick or fingerstyle, this thing has the full ka-changg of the Adirondack top and deep body with an understated rumble that goes with its OM lineage. A JOM Deluxe for the Country Boy on your list. List Price: $3,995 SOLD (JS) SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage D (SOLD) (NEW) Great sounding Bourgeois Vintage D - East Indian rosewood with "select" Adirondack spruce top. Great herringbone look and feel. Ivoroid/herringbone body trim, zig-zag backstrip, ivoroid heel cap and butt wedge. Squares and diamonds inlay. Nickel Waverly tuners, square headstock. 1 and 23/32" nut width. Dana Bourgeois' best selling model. A no-brainer. Compare to a Collings' D2H-A at $1000 less! (D2HA at $4,250). Nice! (DW) SOLD
Bourgeois D150
Brazilian
(SOLD) (NEW) The D-150 is a very nicely priced fancy Brazilian rosewood dreadnought with gold hardware and abalone rosette (no herringbone) that always pleases. (Premium grade Brazilian and premium grade Adirondack spruce) $6,995 Magnificent!!! This one has dark Brazilian rosewood (VERY difficult to photograph!) with lots of spider-webbing and complex figure. The guitar is simply beautiful - we will work at getting some pix without the glare, as these do not do it justice. Tonally, the guitar is just what you'd expect: rich, loud, and posessed of that little something extra that makes it all worthwhile. $7,295 (thanks DL) SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage D (SOLD) (USED) On consignment - a "Vintage D" Rosewood dreadnought with Adirondack top and braces - Bourgeois' best selling model. Dana's version of the classic herringbone dreadnought. Compare to a Collings D2H-A. Nicely played. Nicely kept. Strong player. Nice price. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom OM
all koa all ovah
(SOLD) (USED) A custom Vintage OM with koa back, sides, and top, herringbone trim, 1 and 3/4" nut width, pyramid bridge. We're big fans of hardwood topped guitars, and koa all ovah is a treat for the eyes and ears to be sure. Great low setup, superb sound. Here on consignment. Nice!! Fresh pics. *Fine* guitar. SOLD
Bourgeois Ricky Skaggs Signature model (SOLD) Recent arrival - (USED) We haven't seen one of these for a few years, and it is nice to have one come through. We remember now why we liked them - a real good sounding East Indian rosewood back and sides, tight grain Sitka spruce, abalone rosette, Waverly tuners, 1 and 3/4" nut bluegrass box. A strong and clear sounding D28 style guitar from a master, signed by the Country Boy hisself. Just arrived. Really nice! SOLD
Bourgeois The Georgia Dreadnought (SOLD) (USED) On consignment, a "Georgia Dreadnought" is basically a custom Country Boy - same maple bridgeplate, Adirondack top and braces - with wider nut and saddle spacing a 1 and 3/4" nut width and wider (2 and 5/16") string spacing at the saddle (normal saddle spacing is 2 and 1/4") Also - some cosmetic differences, like a slightly darker body stain, black binding, ebony butt wedge, dark brown (30's era) pickguard, ebony pins (not bone). On Consignment. Real nice sounding mahogany/adirondack CB, oops, I guess we need to call this one a "GD". Under saddle pickup installed (active) - the pickup is a brand with which we were not familiar, the SC Laboratories GFP model a nice sounding pickup with less "quack" than the most undersaddles we have heard. The consignor tells us it gets real loud without feeding back. We'll take his word for it. Sweet guitar, great pickup, real nice (new, lower, very attractive) price. SOLD
Bourgeois Extra Deluxe Country Boy
Figured Mahogany
(SOLD) NAMM show Dana Bourgeois #3 If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on four of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. They will be shipped here after the Show (they will arrive here the week of July 20) Number Three will be a King Country Boy Deluxe (14 fret mahogany dreadnought) of HIGHLY figured mahogany and premium Eastern Adirondack spruce (great looking with some nice bearclaw - very unusual - a very special set of Adirondack!) with cocobolo body and headstock binding and ebony belly bridge. 1 and 23/32" nut width, GOLD Waverlies, bone pins and everyone's favorite - Dana Bourgeois' custom *pale sunburst* A very special NAMM show guitar - $5,000 (SOLD) (MV) SOLD
Bourgeois Advanced Slope D
Rosewood
(SOLD) (NEW) A Dana Bourgeois Advanced Slope D in East Indian rosewood with *premium* Adirondack spruce top and that purrrfect 1 and 23/32" nut width. Big sounding slope D with a fantastic dark sunburst. Really nice adirondack under that sunburst! Beautiful guitar. SOLD but not forgotten (MS) SOLD
Bourgeois Country Boy
sitka top
pale sunburst
(SOLD) (NEW) Your "basic" (basic, wow!) Country Boy (sitka topped) with Dana's incomparable pale sunburst. Superb value in a handcrafted guitar. Dana is a wizard with voicing wood and clearly gets more out of sitka than most builders do and Dana always finds a special set of stiff "bearclaw" sitka for our pale sunburst CB. One of our favorite "basic" models. Haven't had one in a while - nice addition to the shop. Very pleasant guitar - responds to a light touch - doesn't need to be pounded. Great strummer, nice picker. Plays like butter. Perfectly balanced and very sweet. SOLD
Bourgeois Slope D - Mahogany (SOLD) (NEW) Square headstock mahogany slope D in natural finish. Dana is very well known for his slope D guitars. Very loud and very full sounding, but still very balanced. Great flatpickers or strummers - also a great country blues guitar. Very versatile and very pretty. Great looking Adirondack spruce (nice growl) on this classic slope D from Dana - fresh pics! SOLD (DW) Thanks Doug! SOLD
Bourgeois Advanced Slope D Sunburst
Rosewood
(SOLD) Slope D - Fancy East Indian rosewood slope D with premium Adirondack spruce top and one of Dana's famous sunbursts. Triple bound with ivoroid everywhere - floral inlays, ivoroid knobbed Waverly tuners, Bourgeois backstrip, premium pickguard. We love Dana's slope D, a very versatile, loud, handsome and comfortable guitar with perfect balance - a rosewood slope D with snakehead headstock and the floral inlay adds an elegant touch. Just arrived - positively stunning dark AJ style sunburst with the new Waverly vintage ivoroid knob tuners against the snakehead headstock. Gorgeous Gibsonesque guitar with the fit and finish of the master luthier and a huge focused and exquisite jumbo voice. Perfect! List Price: $3,995 SOLD - Headed for San Diego! SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC custom
Brazilian/Adirondack
(SOLD (USED) - (coming in on consignment) a recent custom JOMC in Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce. Just an insanely nice Jumbo OM cutaway guitar with exotic highly figured Brazilian rosewood. Amazing Brazilian rosewood, really. Sold new about two years ago for close to $7000. On consignment here - priced to sell very quickly for an heirloom quality guitar like this. VERY fine guitar in close to new condition with a sophisticated exotic tone and excellent setup! ON CONSIGNMENT (SOLD) (RB) SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage JOM - Madagascar Rosewood (SOLD) NAMM show Dana Bourgeois guitar If you've spent a good amount of time cruising this website, you know we have a knack for ordering and snagging very special one-of-a-kind guitars. Some of it is luck, some of it is nimbleness. When Bourgeois sent us the (very impressive) list of nine guitars being made specifically for display at the Summer 2006 NAMM Show in Austin, we did not hesitate to jump on five of them! His NAMM models are always quite special. They will be shipped here after the Show (they will arrive here the week of July 20) Number Two will be a vintage Jumbo Orchestra Model (14 fret deep body) of MadRose (Madagascar Rosewood) and premium Eastern Adirondack spruce with herringbone trim and ebony belly bridge. 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, bone pins. $4,250 Nice!!! Sorry, this one sold before the ink on the description was dry :-) (JB) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom OMS 12 fret (SOLD) NAMM GUITAR #5821. NAMM GUITAR - custom OMS 12 Fret Slothead. (Guitar featured on Pantheon's website) 12 Fret OM. East Indian Rosewood & AAA grade (where does he find this stuff?) Adirondack spruce. Slothead headstock. 1 3/4" nut width. Ivoroid/ Herringbone body binding. Ebony Pyramid Bridge. B/W vintage rosette. Zig Zag backstrip. Squares & Diamonds inlay. Ivoroid button engraved bronze patina Sloan side mount tuners. No pickguard. S-w-e-e-t 12 fret warmth and sustain. What sound! Built specially for display at the 2005 NAMM convention in Anaheim - coming straight here after the show. Sorry, SOLD SOLD
Bourgeois Ricky Skaggs model (SOLD) (USED) - We get these every now and then - always a popular model. The Bourgeois Ricky Skaggs model, a rosewood and sitka D28 style guitar with great modern punch and playability. This one went through our shop and got a fresh neck reset, a setup, and a few frets levelled. It plays like butter now with nice low action and a nice tall compensated saddle. Great tone - currently set up with light gauge Elixirs but the guitar can handle medium gauge strings real well if preferred. Very clean condition, top has darkened nicely and the tone has mellowed and matured. Real fine flatpicker or strummers guitar - warm but not boomy. Just right! ON CONSIGNMENT (SOLD) SOLD
Bourgeois Custom Vintage OM
Mad Rose
(SOLD) The last one of these we had was a-m-a-z-i-n-g. This Bourgeois orchestra model guitar will feature *premium* Madagascar Rosewood (most MadRose guitars have 4 piece backs - this guitar will have a *two* piece back of premium straight grain Madagascar Rosewood) and Adirondack spruce top. Waverly tuners, 1 and 3/4" nut and cool ebony pryamid bridge. Fantastic OM guitar - really an impressive and distinctly *muscular* OM with great sustain, volume, overtone, ring, and ka-changg. This OM seems to really like a flatpick. Dana set this one up slightly stiffer (4/32") to push that great set of Adirondack spruce. This thing really has the fullness of a larger guitar in a very comfortable package. Like Dana says "MadRose is 80% of the tone (of Brazilian rosewood) at 20% of the price." Really an overtone rich box with superb articulation. A light guitar with headroom to spare. Will it last the first weekend? No!! MadRose!! - SOLD - Thank You Ermanno! SOLD
Bourgeois Vintage D - Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) Magnificent sounding NAMM show Dana Bourgeois Vintage Dreadnought - AAA grade figured Brazilian rosewood with "premium" (oh my!!) grade Adirondack spruce top. Vintage herringbone look, sound, and feel. Ivoroid/herringbone body trim, zig-zag backstrip, ivoroid heel cap and butt wedge. Squares and diamonds inlay. Nickel Waverly tuners, square headstock with Brazilian headstock overlay. 1 and 23/32" nut width. Built with extra care and jeu de vie for the 2006 NAMM Show in Los Angeles. All the extra reverb, depth and articulate sparkle that a well voiced Brazilian rosewood guitar should have. Looks old, sounds old. All adirondack spuce should look like this. Done, put a fork in it. Just a great guitar. I'll try to get some nicer pics when we get a break in the weather - this marvelous guitar deserves to strut its stuff and be photographed in natural lighting. Beyond "nice", this is one of the top ten guitars to come through here in a year. Tonally magnificent. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom DB Signature Dreadnought - Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) We had three or four buyers disappointed when the magnificent sounding NAMM show Dana Bourgeois Vintage Dreadnought (above) sold out from under them. We asked Dana to find another set of Brazilian (and *premium* Adirondack) to build a comparable guitar. It took a few months, but he has called with a set about which he claims: "..We found one set of Brazilian that is really special (presentation grade) but we'll let you have it for your customer that lost the NAMM guitar if you want... This is another unique set. Quartersawn, old growth (tight grain), that will sound as great as the one for NAMM (easily)." We can't argue with that....this will be a custom DB Signature guitar with gold hand-engraved Waverly tuners, ivory inlay, special multicolor DB herringbone and backstrip, wood rosette, one of a kind. - SOLD (MP) SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC Rosewood/sitka
Bearclaw
(SOLD) (NEW) The super verstaile, great sounding standard JOMC "Jumbo OM cutaway" model from Dana Bourgeois. Always a shop favorite, this model does everything well and never hangs around long. East Indian rosewood back and sides, heavily *bearclawed* Sitka spruce, snakehead headstock, Waverly tuners, 1 and 23/32" nut. Flatpick it, fingerpick it. Just pick it. SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC
Rosewood
(SOLD) We love these jumbo OM guitars. They do everything well. Strong, full, loud, deep, clear, crisp. Bluegrass, flatpick, drumsticks, fingerpicks. Pick it, strum it, slap it. This one has East Indian rosewood back and sides, highly figured *bearclaw* Sitka spruce top, abalone rosette, 1 and 23/32" nut width. Very fast satin finish neck, Bourgeois snakehead headstock with ebony overlay, nickel Waverly tuners, ebony belly bridge. The closer you look at these Bourgeois guitars, the more impressed you become. Want intonation? Look at the sculpted compensation on the 1/8" bone saddle. Be honest - doesn't that snakehead headstock make perfect sense? Look how the strings pull straight across the nut. Isn't it nice to avoid that near collision of the 5th string against the 6th string post? Square headstocks are for squares. Nice! We've had three guys (Sigmund, Jim, and Dan, great guitarists, all) over the past three days tell us this is the best guitar in the store. This shopkeeper cannot disagree with customers who gush over his wares. It is a perfectly executed design and it will not be here long...I cannot wait to order one in Madagascar Rosewood and Adirondack. Watch these pages for a MadRose snakehead JOMC. SOLD (C M) SOLD
Bourgeois JOMC
Madagascar Rosewood
(SOLD) We love Bourgeois jumbo OM guitars. They do everything well. This one, as promised, was ordered with exotic "MadRose" Madagascar rosewood back and sides and Dana's best Adirondack spruce top. Finish it off with that cool snakehead headstock, abalone rosette, and the perfect 1 and 23/32" nut width. We also like the feel of the satin finish neck and the clean look of no fretboard inlay. This guitar represents enormous bang for the buck. This guitar would be $7850 in Brazilian as opposed to $4850 with Madagascar - We agree with Dana Bourgeois and his comments regarding Madagascar rosewood versus Brazilian rosewood: "you get 80% of the tone for 20% of the price" - that's sounds about right, and the person who ends up with this guitar will be singing Dana's praises! This guitar has the dense reverby ring of a good Brazilian dreadnought, with a certain stiff punchiness right where a flatpicker wants it. And it works equally well for fingerstyle. Full and lush without any mush. $4,850 SOLD (C M) A Bourgeois Two-fer! Thanks Charlie. SOLD
Bourgeois Custom OM
Englemann and Mahogany
(SOLD) #5624 Custom guitar from Dana Bourgeois - Moe's House of Mahogany grabs another first round draft pick in this custom Bourgeois orchestra model with *highly* figured mahogany and AAA grade *Englemann* spruce, 1 3/4" nut width, and just for kicks, vividly figured koa body binding. Don't forget the Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay and Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. Light as a feather, mighty fine weather. For your fingerstyle pleasure, we present this parlor-light precious time machine. Reminds us of the 1930's. Really a fine, super light fingerstyle guitar with lots of sparkle and responsiveness. $3,995 SOLD SOLD
Beard Model E
Hog Top
(SOLD) (NEW)We are very familiar with this model, the powerful Beard model E, but we usually think of it as a maple instrument. Here's our first special order in mahogany and it has the same roar with a little more warmth and woodiness in the voice. We love it and to no one's surprise, it sold within mintues of its arrival. $3,700 SOLD
Beard Retrophonic Lightening Bolt! (SOLD) Wildly innovative design and superb craftsmanship. Art deco design with a rear loaded resonator assembly, skillfully blended with a P-90 magnetic pickup and the Fishman resonator pickup. Great guitar for straight blues or bottleneck. SOLD
Beard Model E
Maple
(SOLD) (NEW) The Beard model E in maple. The Big Daddy. The one to go to war with. Our best seller. Often sold before they arrive. We're glad to have this one, and oh what a guitar it is - a huge sounding instrument with great brilliance, roar and sustain. SOLD
Beard Beard Model E
Maple
(SOLD) (USED) We see just a few of these per year - and they usually go out as fast as they come in. The industry standard for raw power and tone in a square neck resonator. The one to go to war with. This one is real clean - we sold it new (last year) and the owner is a fastidious and gentle sort. Traded back on a Collings mandolin. Just arrived - fresh pics. VERY NICE!!!! SOLD SOLD
Beard Road-O-Phonic lap steel (SOLD) Lap-style-travel electric/acoustic resonator guitar. Figured maple with "honeyburst" satin finish and ebony fretboard. 9" Quarterman cone and spider bridge, Fishman pickup and Don Lace "Sensor" pickup, 23" scale length. Comes with hard shell case. Extremely cool and sounds great plugged on unplugged! Recent arrival - SOLD SOLD
Bozo 12 String (SOLD) (Exc.) Here's something you don't see every day. A fancy 12 string guitar built by Bozo Podunavac. Rosewood with spruce top, clean maple bridge plate, new Gotoh tuners, the most ornate headstock and purfling in the bidness, and lots of character. This guitar has an internal label signed by Mr. Podunavac when it was re-necked by him in 1999 (He's alive and well and still building guitars). The new heel block is stamped with serial # 807. We're still trying to get the full scoop on this guitar, please e-mail or call for details. Clean and cool. Ask Leo Kottke, before Bob Taylor, there was Bozo. SOLD
Bozo 12 String (SOLD) (USED) (Exc.) Here's something you don't see every day. A fancy 12 string guitar built by Bozo Podunavac. Rosewood with spruce top, maple binding, and the most ornate headstock and purfling in the guitar bidness, and lots of tonal character to match the visual. This is an original Bozo from 1974. For the full scoop on this guitar, please e-mail for details. Clean and cool. Ask Leo Kottke (or John Fahey, or Reverend Gary Davis if you see them), before Bob Taylor, there was Bozo. This is a special guitar. Check out our own Ernie Hawkins getting to know, and love, the guitar (the pics scroll horizontally...) Just back from repair (fret dressing, setup, repair hairline crack in bridge..) SOLD
Breedlove King Koa (SOLD) Exotic Master Class custom guitar. Concert size, deep body with soft cutaway. AAAA grade figured koa back and sides, Western Red Cedar top, bloodwood binding. Abalone rosette and top purfling with an exotic mermaid and dolphin inlay. Gold tuners with ebony buttons. Ahhh, koa! Deep, rich, and complex sounding. Koa and cedar, a great combination. This guitar is very satisfying - with mighty impressive workmanship and materials and a marvelous big sound. Sounds expensive. Plays like butter. We're serious guitar snobs here folks, and let me tell you - this is one fine guitar. List Price: $6,999. SOLD SOLD
Breedlove Classic XII (SOLD) (USED) Breedlove's incomparable Classic XII 12-string with striped Macassar ebony back and sides, ivoroid binding, and abalone rosette. Crafting a great sounding 12-string with the strength to withstand the tension of 12 strings is a real challenge. Breedlove's use of the bridge truss system allows for an extremely stable 12-string with the clarity, bass response, and playability often missing from other 12-strings. We sold this guitar new a while back, and didn't she find her way back here, traded in on a new Collings guitar. List new - $4,999 - a screaming bargain at $2,495 SOLD
Breedlove Ed Gerhard
Signature model
(SOLD) (NEW) NOS (New old stock, with some shop wear) Master Class custom guitar. Jumbo size, shallow depth body with soft cutaway. Select East Indian back and sides, select sitka top with signature voicing, koa body and fretboard binding and spoked figured walnut rosette. Fingerstylist Ed Gerhard is known almost as much for being an audiophile as he is for his rich tone and melodic compositions. He collaborated closely with Breedloves Steve Henderson to create a guitar with unique character. The jumbo-size body features a proportionally large lower bout, a narrow waist, and a relatively shallow depth of 3 inches at the neck and 4 1/16 at the heel. With a bass side thats slightly thinner than the treble side, the guitar is fine-tuned for even response all across its frequency range.Gold tuners, pinless bridge, jumbo frets. Deep, rich, and complex sounding. NOS (New old stock, with some shop wear) Ready to see this one go to a good home. SOLD
Breedlove DM Deluxe (SOLD) From Breedlove's new "Revival" series, a classic dreadnought featuring solid select Honduran mahogany back and sides, solid *Adirondack* spruce top and Adirondack spruce braces (advanced and scalloped Pre-War style X-Bracing), tortoise shell body binding, ebony belly bridge 1/8 handshaped bone saddle, 25 = scale length 14 Fret mahogany Neck, ebony fingerboard, 1 > hand shaped bone nut, squared headstock, Grover 18:1 Sta-Tite vintage gold tuners, gloss finish, Breedlove arch top hard case List Price: $2,995. Very good guitar. Sounds like a mid priced Martin. Plays like a mid priced Taylor. SOLD
Breedlove SC 20 Custom (SOLD) Grand Concert, deep body, Non-Cutaway. Rosewood back and sides, flawless Englemann spruce top, ebony binding. Deep, rich, and complex sounding, wonderful fingerstyle guitar. List Price: $2,995 Our price: $1,950 SOLD
Breedlove SD 20 Custom (SOLD) (USED) Mahogany Dreadnought, Deep Body, Non-Cutaway. Mahogany back, sides, and mahogany top, tortoise binding. Warm and punchy, sweet sound! Great for Irish flatpicking, Blues, and fingerstyle. With Breedlove gigbag. Nice! List Price: $2,500 SOLD
Breedlove Classic XII (SOLD) (NEW) Breedlove's incomparable 12-string with striped ebony back and sides, ivoroid binding, and abalone rosette. Crafting a great sounding 12-string with the strength to withstand the incredible tension of 12 strings is a real challenge. Breedlove's use of the bridge truss system allows for an extremely stable 12-string with the clarity, bass response, and playability often missing from other 12-strings. Fabulous guitar - fresh pics. Eye-popping, drop dead stunning guitar with room filling sound! List Price: $4,999 SOLD
Collings AT16
Archtop
(SOLD) (NEW) - Few and far between....and WELL worth the wait. One of a handful of archtops guitars that Bill Collings will share with us this year. Sunburst with bound fingerboard and peghead. Special set of "old looking" maple for the back. Gold Waverlies with ivoroid knobs - bound ebony pickguard. If interested in this VERY RARE opportunity please call ASAP as we don't expect it to last the first weekend. A tremendous guitar and a superb investment. Shut my mouth! SOLD
Collings OM1AV-SB
VARNISH
(SOLD) (USED) OK speed dialers, let's see who is fastest on the draw on this one! We are taking on consignment what many consider the ideal Collings guitar - the most versatile, the best sounding, and best looking guitar in the line. Interested? Coming in on consignment, a truly fabulous sounding lightly built Collings OM1A with style one sunburst and Va-va-va-VARNISH!! Priced new at $7,350, this *mint* condition used guitar is priced to sell here very quickly at $5,500 - 1 and 3/4" nut, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, lightly built (3.7 pounds) and DEAD mint. A rare opportunity. SOLD
Collings D3 custom Varnish (SOLD) (NEW) A very special project, for a very special man, one year in the making. Another oh so magnificient Collings guitar from that dwindling stash of premium Brazilian rosewood there that we like so much - straight grain, loaded with color, and sonically superior. A real treasure - this set is AAA grade all the way, baaaby. So here we go: D3BaaaA custom - AAA grade Brazilian rosewood, ULTRA high grade select Adirondack spruce, Adirondack braces, no tongue brace, 1 and 3/4" nut width, Vintage Now neck and bridge, torch inlaid in the headstock, strap button installed, cut through saddle, and ( need we say more?)the elixir of the Gawds: Bill Collings' VARNISH finish. Just a spectacular custom guitar that requires no explanation. About as good as it gets. What a pleasure it will be to deliver this guitar to its deserving owner. Thank You Ken! SOLD
Collings D1A
VARNISH
(NEW) Great Googlie-Mooglies and Holy Moley. Hey...seems like the economy has skipped a beat. Anyone notice? Well, here is one guitar that seems to be recession-proof, however. We call it *the one* - the Big Daddy - the Collings D1A in va-va-va-varnish. This thing eats lesser guitars for lunch. Seriously - there are guitars and then there are varnish Collings guitars. You know what we mean, and we mean what we say! This guitar was ordered in the Fall of 2007, took a good long time to get here, and sold immediately. Master grade Adirondack, no tongue brace, 1 and 3/4" nut width. Four pounds of fun. Holy Grail material, no foolin! (RG) SOLD
Collings D1A
VARNISH
(NEW)The Big, the bold, the beautiful. Perhaps the ultimate dreadnought guitar. No one is quite the same after experiencing one of these. It's hard to go home to brand X after you've been vexed by the voodoo of the varnish. The Collings D1A, buttered in varnish with the Vintage Now neck and bridge. The Vintage Now neck guitars always surprise us with just a bit more "red meat" in the voice. A powerful guitar. Yee doggies. 1 and 3/4" nut width. SOLD (BC) SOLD
Collings D1A
VARNISH
(NEW) One of our customs - a lightly built (4.0 pounds) D1A with no tongue brace, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, tortoise binding all over with crosscut ivoroid purfling, torch inlayed headstock, dots at 5,7,9, and 15 and that handsome Collings logo at fret # 12 . Finds its very impressive voice in a high grade (no streaks) wide grain Adirondack spruce. And oh yes, varnish. Ooh that smell. It's loud, it's proud. Bang, Zoom, and Gadzooks. It makes other guitars seem small by comparison. A *GREAT* one. SOLD (JB) SOLD
Collings D1A
VARNISH
(NEW) One of our customs - a lightly built (just over 4 pounds) D1A with no tongue brace, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 3/16" saddle spacing, tortoise binding all over with crosscut ivoroid purfling, style 3 backstrip, and a set of perfect Adirondack spruce for the top, stuff you rarely see these days, clear and wide with no streaks. Ebony headstock overlay with tortoise bound headstock and va, va, va, varnish. It arrived today. Just an *amazing* sounding guitar - with absolutely perfect Adirondack spruce. A joy to behold. We willed it, Collings nailed it. Whadda guitar!!! It didn't make it through the first afternoon. This will be the last of our stock 2007 varnish orders - the last one ordered at the "old" varnish and Adirondack pricing. $5,850 The next one will be $ 900 more. SOLD - headed to Canada(GT) SOLD
Collings C10 Dlx koaGsb
Koa
German
shade top
(SOLD) (NEW) We've ordered this DELUXE custom C-10 before, and I am sure we will order it again. AAA grade Koa back and sides with a superb looking German spruce top, with Western shade-top sunburst, custom koa backstrip, 1 and 3/4" nut width, flourish headstock inlay and the ebony knobbed nickel Waverly tuners. Just a delightful small guitar with a sophisticated dark voice and deep sustain. A cowboy guitar for a mighty sophisticated cowboy. Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay SOLD
Collings OM 41 custom
Brazilian
SOLD (USED) Few and far between. Getting more and more rare. A tangible asset. A trophy for a life well lived. A cause for joy. Just a dead mint condition AAA grade Brazilian rosewood Collings OM, this one dolled up with "41" style abalone top border, 42 style fretboard inlay, a flowerpot headstock inlay, and AMAZINGLY rich sounding Red spruce top that looks like something salvaged off the Titanic. This guitar has ENORMOUS bass and volume. It is a killer of smaller guitars. It is ruthless and bold. It is a prize. It should last a day or two. Note: It should have, but it did not! Please hold your calls, we have a winner. (HH) SOLD
Collings OO-42 BaaaG Brazilian custom (NEW)Ahhh 2007. Remember back when we still had a faith in the banks and stock market, and life was so simple? Back when we knew who we could trust? Back when we could still order Brazilian rosewood Collings guitars? Well here's a small step back in time for you... one of the last of our 2007 Brazilian stock orders, a custom OO-42 with extremely dark and figured AAA grade Brazilian rosewood and perfect German spruce on top. Custom features include a torch inlay on that cool slotted headstock, of course, as all classic OO guitars should have, and a 1 and 13/16" nut width. It is a guitar to grow old with. It will fare better than your GM stock. The Brazilian is loaded with color from oranges to greens. Oh...it's good. The guitar sounds exactly as you'd expect it to. Ferociously loud, with ringing depth and fullness and sustain with an overtone that only Brazilian can deliver. SOLD
Collings OOO3BaaaGss
custom
Brazilian
German
VARNISH
(SOLD) (NEW) A certain melancholy overcomes us as we greet our last ten or twelve Collings Brazilians. As you know by now, there will be no more. These orders, placed several years ago for fine AAA Brazilian guitars, are a weekend at the World Series for us, they are the highlight of our daze. As the media predicts the tenth recession of the last three, and cynics accuse us of driving the price of Brazilian through the roof, we ponder these rare and precious great guitars and smaller issues dissipate with the melting snow. We present this lightly crafted *classic* OOO Collings in AAA grade Brazilian rosewood with the lovliest of German spruce tops, a SHORT SCALE, a pryamid bridge, a slotted headstock with 1 and 3/4" nut width and the three on a tree bronze Waverly tuners. Did we fail to mention the abalone rosette, the CW pickguard, and that sonic soup, that surreal syrup of sound, the Collings VARNISH finish? The varnish over the Collings logo makes it look like 100 year old stained glass Ahhh, forgive us for getting giddy over a guitar like this. It's pretty, but oh my gawd...it just sounds AMAZING. The varnish finish imparts a deep warm, aged sound that is just unobtainable in a new lacquer guitar. The Brazilian is fine, but the German top is *superb*! It feels loose. It sounds old. It purrs like a Porche and it vibrates in ones lap. SOLD
Collings D42BaaaA VARN (SOLD) (NEW) Easily and hands down, The Guitar of the Year. A year in the making - Our finest custom Collings D42, this one with "simply the best" exotic figured AAA grade Brazilian rosewood back and sides and the finest AAA grade Adirondack spruce top - 1 and 3/4" nut width, NO tongue brace, torch inlay in headstock, beautiful figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, engraved nickel Waverly tuners, ebony belly bridge with cut thru saddle, 42 style abalone top trim, NO fretboard inlay, 21 style tortoise bound body (no neck or headstock binding) and abalone rosette. Collings logo inlayed at 12th fret. Fossil ivory bridge pins. VARNISH finish. An investment and museum grade Collings dreadnought model guitar. We were able to personally select the woods for this guitar (and several others) and what we found is amazing. Visually stunning, but this guitar SOUNDS like a fireworks display. Huge open take-no-prisoners sound with amazing bass and fat trebles. Pure guitar satisfaction. This $12,000 guitar has been sold but don't let that stop you from ordering one like it for yourself! You've worked hard. You deserve it. Sell the rest, buy the best. (T) This one with deluxe silver Calton flite case (of course!) Note - for 2007, Collings has raised the price of AAA Brazilian to $4000, and Adirondack spruce to $900. SOLD
Collings OM1A-sb cut
ADIRONDACK cutaway
SOLD (NEW) After a long time without one, Moe ceremoniously welcomes into inventory one of the most desirable guitars in the Collings lineup - making it one of the most coveted guitars in the world - an OM1A with five insanely popular features: Adirondack spruce, a CUTAWAY, a CW pickguard, and a style one sunburst (and 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course.) About as good as it gets, really, the guitar does it all and looks the part. Sell what is left of your Bear Stearns stock and buy something real. Imagine yourself in the drivers seat of this magnificent machine, just you and the open road...freedom, Baby! Stay strong. Play hard. Get serious. Simply a GREAT guitar! SOLD (SV) SOLD
Collings OM1Asb VARNISH (SOLD) (NEW) Been waiting a year for this one. Our favorite mid size guitar, the Collings OM1 with Adirondack top, style one sunburst, 1 and 3/4" nut width, style 3 backstrip, CW style pickguard, and CW bridge (2 and 1/4" string spacing rather than the 2 and 3/16" standard) and because life is short, ya gotta have the Collings VARNISH finish. You know you want one. Oh goodness. It's here, it's *spectacular* and after an early afternoon rally of e-mail and voice-mail, it is SOLD Thanks I.B.! SOLD
Collings OM1 E cut (SOLD) (NEW) Shipped here from the 2009 NAMM Show, a new favorite of ours, lightly built with mahogany back and sides and Engelmann spruce top. Fingerstyle ready, flatpick capable, cutaway equipped, nickel Waverlies, ebony peghead veneer, and 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. Smooth and warm, something just right about this guitar. SOLD(JR) SOLD
Collings OM custom
Brazilian
(USED) This kind of *lucky find* is often treated as "private stock" here - and often a guitar as unique as this does not get listed, or we should say, it sells before we get it listed. We keep a "Want List" and some treasures disappear before our loquacious webmaster gets wind of them. We have decided to go ahead and prominently list this one just so we can all have some fun with it, while we check with Collings to see exactly what we have. Well, here's what we have. It is a marvelous one-of-a-kind custom model - would probably be designated an OM3HBA.. "something" if we ordered one like it today, but we'd be unable, without a time machine, to find this kind of old Growth Brazilian rosewood (the pics speak for themselves - this is some extremely exotic and fine wood) that was a rare find when they decided to use it in 1994 - the top is private stock GERMAN spruce (verified by Collings) and the inlays are a unique banjo-style design done by Tom Ellis at Precision Pearl Inlay. No need to throw adjectives at this guitar - it is what it is - a well kept thirteen year old Collings custom Brazilian rosewood OM guitar with unique engraved inlays and a marvelous pedigree. It's one of the finer things in life. It's a man with a plan. And, it has been SOLD. SOLD
Collings OM2Gss
German
Short Scale
(SOLD) (NEW) Here's a lightly built Collings OM2 (no herringbone) topped with German spruce. The short scale makes this one purrr. 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. SOLD Headed to Hawaii! SOLD
Collings O2MRG
MadRose German
(SOLD) (NEW) Been waiting a year for this sweet thing. It was worth the wait. An O body Collings in Madagascar Rosewood with a fine German spruce top. We eliminated the herringbone (nod to JR) but we did add a style three backstrip, a pyramid bridge and an abalone rosette to make this unique and classy little guitar. Make no mistake, she is small, but she is posessed of tone and sustain that rivals even the finest OM guitars. The ultimate couch guitar. The ultimate retirement gift. Who gets to open this very special gift? SOLD (FN) SOLD
Collings OO-42BaaaA (SOLD) (NEW) It was on a trip to Staten Island, about fifteen years ago - the first Collings guitar I ever played was a Brazilian rosewood OO-42. It touched something deep inside and elevated my impression of what a guitar could be. It pretty much ruined me for what I was playing at the time and set me on a journey and career path that culminated in doing everything I can to promote those profound Austin guitar wizards and evangelize their instruments. Well, just for fun and old times sake then, let's conjur up a AAA grade Brazilian OO-42 for store stock while such a thing is still possible. Note: It is no longer possible to get Brazilian like this from Collings so that someone can walk in here and have *their* life changed. I'm excited. Wanna buy some portable magic? Here is the truth. This guitar is positively spectacular - quite possibly the *best* sounding fingerstyle guitar in this, or any other, guitar shop. Want to join a very small club of very lucky people who own one of the finest things money can buy? Here's your ticket. With Brazilian rosewood availability at an historic low, I can't think of anything else to say. $11,900. Stock market a little bumpy? This one is better than an S&P Index Fund. Sell your Bear Sterns stock, buy the Brazilian. SOLD SOLD
Collings OOO1 Koa E NAMM 09 Guitar (NEW) Shipped here from the NAMM Show, a very special custom OOO with *spectacular* koa back and sides and picture-perfect Engelmann spruce top. Lightly built, fingerstyle ready, slotted headstock, tortoise binding, nickel Waverlies with ebony knobs. Alex at Collings told us "this is the most gorgeous guitar" and now we see that he was right. It's also an amazingly warm and full sounding OOO with great depth and sustain. Quite special indeed. SOLD
Collings OM1 short scale
cutaway
NAMM 09 Guitar (NEW) A very lovely guitar. very light, very warm. The short scale makes it an ideal fingerstyle guitar. Plays like butter. Softer than soft, more than mellow, and mahogany-marvelous. No pickguard (one can be added) and 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. SOLD (RH) SOLD
Collings D2H-G
German Spruce
(NEW) We sell a whole lot of these. Another drop dead gorgeous D2H with alarmingly pretty German spruce - visually stunning wood with wide grain and with tone to match. Our befuddlement from the visual impact and the glorious sustain of this guitar has us tongue tied. Where do they find this stuff? This church organ-like guitar has some of the nicest German spruce we've ever seen. 1 and 3/4" nut width, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, nickel Waverlies, herringbone purfling. We're calling her "Gisa". She's not likely to be with us long....SOLD (AF) SOLD
Collings OM 41 custom
Brazilian
(SOLD) (USED) Few and far between. Getting more and more rare. A tangible asset. A trophy for a life well lived. Just a dead mint condition AAA grade Brazilian rosewood Collings OM, this one dolled up with "41" style abalone top border, 42 style fretboard inlay, a flowerpot headstock inlay, and AMAZINGLY full sounding Adirondack spruce top that looks like something salvaged off the Titanic. This guitar has ENORMOUS bass and volume. It is a killer of smaller guitars. It is ruthless and bold. It is a prize. It should last a day or two. Note: It should have, but it did not! Please hold your calls, we have a winner. (HH) SOLD
Collings D42BaaaA
custom
(SOLD) (NEW) Good things come in threes. The third of our Collings D42 customs for 2006, this one in lacquer with the most vividly figured AAA grade Brazilian rosewood back and sides we could find and the finest AAA grade Adirondack spruce top in the shop - 1 and 3/4" nut width, torch inlay in headstock, beautiful highly figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, gold Waverly tuners, ebony belly bridge, 42 style abalone top trim, 42 style snowflake fretboard inlay, ivoroid bound neck and headstock and abalone rosette. Simply an investment and museum grade Collings dreadnought model guitar. It's a beauty alright, but the SOUND is even more exceptional. Ka-channnng! A very thick and hot sounding guitar with that extra depth which is Brazilian. Just more "there" there if you know what we mean. I got to spend five mionutes with it, the highlight of my morning I might say, now it's up to you. For that person on your gift list who "has everything", this would make the ideal 25th wedding anniversary or retirement (or ANY other occasion for that matter) gift. Put 11,000 smackers in a boring mutual fund, OR put it into this guitar and reap the rewards and daily appreciation. Sell the rest, buy the best. Just arrived (12/22/06). Several inquiries already. $10,750. It will not last until January 1st (Note - for 2007, Collings has raised the price of AAA Brazilian to $4000, the base price of the guitar $150, and Adirondack spruce to $900. Save $800 by buying it in 2006!) You didn't really expect this to last more than two days here, did you?? SOLD! We'll try to get three more in 2007. SOLD
Collings O2MRG custom
Mad Rose/German
(SOLD) (NEW) Another after hours visit by Moe (Moe's gone Mad!) to the wood stash at Collings. This is a mighty special custom Collings O body in magnificent figured *Madagascar Rosewood* and an off-the-charts good German spruce top. The use of Madagascar Rosewood is a fairly recent development for Collings; many feel Mad Rose to be the heir apparent to Brazilian rosewood. If this guitar is any indication, you've got our attention! It's a style 2 guitar with ivoroid binding, but no herringbone, a style 3 backstrip and Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. Deep sustain and singing trebles from the German spruce, and abundance of overtone and depth from old Mad Rose herself. No one with eyes closed could identify this an an "O" sized guitar. It's one of the best sounding guitars in the shop and one of finer things in life. Four packages arrived from Collings today. Moe is exhausted. After getting sweaty with the C10 Hog Top above, he feels this guitar would go better with a fine glass of wine. Pinot anyone? Oh...1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. Moe's gone Mad!! SOLD (DN) SOLD
Collings OM2G cut
German spruce
cutaway
SOLD (NEW) It always takes a good long time to get a cutaway from Collings. It's always worth the wait, and it is rare for us to have one in stock. To have one in stock with a German spruce top is even more rare. But here she is: just a great looking OM2 (no herringbone) in German with cutaway and the 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. A great sounding guitar with access to, and the appropriate voice for, the highest registers. Very nice! Thanks D.H. SOLD
Collings OM2GBaaaSB cutaway
VARNISH
custom
SOLD (NEW) Ah.....remember the good old days, way back in 2007? Back before the economy got slam-dunked by the banksters? Back when we could still order Brazilian rosewood guitars from Collings? Oh, how we yearn for those simpler carefree days. So much has changed, but it doesn't seem that long ago. Here's my suggestion: Turn off your televison and study this remarkable guitar for a moment. Perhaps it will serve to calm your frazzled nerves and remind you of the fundamentals, back when they were strong. Listen: AAA grade Brazilian rosewood, magnificent German spruce with a light shaded top, Brazilian rosewood *pyramid* bridge and fretboard, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, CW pickguard, CUTAWAY, and of 1 and 3/4" nut width (of course) and did we mention the varnish? We invite you to insert your nose into this soundhole and sniff - celebrate the happy marriage of Brazilian rosewood and varnish. Strum one chord and appreciate the conjugal bliss of Brazilian rosewood and German spruce. Life is good. Get out of your funk. Get back in the game. $10,750 SOLD - Flying to San Francisco SOLD
Collings D42
BaaaA
(SOLD) ....(USED) - Few and far between....a fancy custom Collings D42. The Thinking Person's collectible in really great dark, quartersawn AAA *KILLER* Grade Brazilian rosewood, the kind we can't get anymore, with premium Adirondack spruce, abalone torch inlay on headstock, abalone top border, abalone rosette. 1 and 11/16" nut width. Consigned here by a great player and collector who has several of them and finds that it is time to thin the herd slightly, so he can buy more, as it goes. A magnificent guitar that has been meticulously kept. Not much to say other than gloat that we have it here and you should leap at the chance to add it to *your* collection as guitars this good come along very seldom in life....just a tremendous guitar and a *SUPERB* investment. SOLD
Collings OOO41 custom Brazilian (SOLD) (USED) A magnificent 2004 custom OOO in highly figured Brazilian rosewood and high grade Adirondack spruce top. This is a custom guitar with 1 and 3/4" nut width and a SOLID headstock (two very well considered options for a OOO)but all the other standard OOO-41 style stuff (gold hardware, 25.5" scale, abalone rosette and abalone top purfling, 41 style fretboard inlay, pyramid bridge) there for your visual pleasure. In addition, this fine guitar has the flowerpot inlay on the headstock. If you're going to fly first class, you might as well wear your good shoes. A *fine* collectible guitar, set up light and low for a fingerstyle player, but it is certainly comfortable with a flatpick as well. VERY well maintained. On consignment. Priced to go quickly. A special custom guitar, heirloom and investment grade. SOLD SOLD
Collings DS2H (SOLD) (USED) A bold and beautiful DS2H custom slothead with a more user-friendly (1 and 3/4") nut width than this body size usually gets. This DS2H is seven years old (7/2000) and has really blossomed into a marvelous sounding Collings. Big, sumptious, warm, full, perfectly balanced. Super fine Indian rosewood and close grained Sitka spruce. The finish has settled well into the wood, and at this price, you don't have to "settle" for less guitar. All the cells have re-arranged and aligned in an orderly and musical fashion. Here we have the essence of Collings: Seven years old, nice low action, tall saddle. Not a hint of a belly or bad luck. Some lesser boutique guitars are looking for their first neck re-set at this age. This Collings is just breaking a sweat and ready to go the distance. G-O-O-D guitar. Plays like butter, sounds like thunder. All a guitar can be. Currently set up with light gauge strings for big time fingerstyle, but can be flatpicked as well. Fresh pics. Delicious, really. (JL) SOLD
Collings DS2H (SOLD) (USED) Another bold and beautiful DS2H slothead . This DS2H is also seven years old but has the standard specs (1 and 13/16" nut width)and is set up with medium strings. This one is a flatpicker's dream with a bang-zoom "Holy Fiddle Tunes Batman" voice and a serious gun-shot like articulate bass and all the sustain of the best 12 fret D's. Mighty serious guitar. SOLD
Collings OM3 koa/A (USED) Coming in on trade. This is a marvelous "3" series koa guitar with Adirondack top and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. A wonderful wood combination. We sure love our koa here. Lists for $6825 - would sell new for $6,140. Here's a nearly new one for considerably less. (SV) SOLD
Collings OO2H
12 fret koa
(USED) Coming in on trade. This is a marvelous "2" series koa guitar with Sitka top and a 1 and 13/16" nut width. A wonderful fingerstyle guitar. We sure love our koa here. SOLD
Collings OM3MhGss custom (SOLD) (USED) MORE GOOD STUFF. This is one of those lightly built short scale Collings OM guitars built for the fingerstyle player. A very recent (serial # 13234) warm and super responsive style three mahogany OM topped with beautiful German spruce, 1 and 3/4" nut width, abalone rosette, gold Waverlies, pyramid bridge, no pickguard, and that certain something in the way she moves me. A very light fingerstyle OM, this is a guitar model that we know well and we are delighted that it will be here ON CONSIGNMENT. A very smart man told me recently that German topped Collings guitars, when capoed at the seventh fret, have the projection and timbre of a fine mandolin. We like the sound of that. This is a *smokin* good guitar in immaculate condition. It is a prize and it is SOLD (AK) SOLD
Collings C10 Deluxe Custom mahogany
Black with ivoroid
(SOLD) (USED) What's that you say - you can't get enough of our brilliant Collings inventory? Well ladies and germs....step right on over for something completely different!! A C10 Deluxe custom black finish guitar for Batman his own bad self - inspired by Steve James' C-10 - mahogany body guitar - with 1 and 3/4" nut width, custom (deluxe) model with black painted sitka top with white grain filler on sides, back, and neck, ivoroid pickguard, factory set up for light gauge strings, with ivoroid bound body, neck and headstock (with engraved pearloid headstock overlay) and nickel Waverly tuners. A C-10 for the Joker. And what sound! These mahogany C-10s are ever so dry and bluesy and this one has a wicked sense of humor as well. It's got plenty o' pop and snarl. We are huge fans of the old blues boxes with *mother of toilet seat* headstock overlays. This guitar makes us want to wear sunglasses and play da blues. This is the most INCREDIBLE sounding C-10. I don't know exactly why this guitar sounds so good...but there is something *special* about it, honest. Sold new for $4,850 last year - available now in near mint condition for a very low $ 3,850. Really a *GREAT* open and dry sounding fingerstyle blues guitar, exceptional. Yes, you heard us, as good as all Collings are, this one is exceptional. A notch above. The best sounding mahogany C-10 we've had. - SOLD (BD) SOLD
Collings OOO1 custom black
Doghair
(NEW) We've got a customer. Let's call him Jeff. Jeff has a grand sense of humor and a bold sense of adventure, and he absolutely loves the black/white "doghair" Collings 290 electric we sold him last year. So he, with little prodding from us, challenged Collings to build a light HOG topped doghair OOO with rope purfling and pearloid headstock veneer and pearloid pickguard, of course. Oh, we've had other doghair acoustics, but never a doghair hog top. It's the Hog Daddy, and the Hottest Dog. Astonishingly woody sounding, crisp and warm at the same time, hard to photograph, off the charts unique. Sorry, the pics are unable to fully capture its cool factor. You'll have to take Moe's word for it. It's wicked good. It looks hot and sounds amazing. What a Honky Tonk guitar. SOLD What's next? A matching Doghair hog top ukulele, of course!! (JM) SOLD
Collings C10 custom
Deluxe 41 style
German top deep body
(SOLD) (NEW) Our custom C-10 offerings have been extremely popular this year! Why? Easy. The C-10 is the most versatile body style in the Collings catalog. Imagine: Standard depth, deep body, short scale, long scale. Koa, rosewood, mahogany, maple. Cedar top, spruce top, HOG top. Standard neck, OM (Camper) neck. Just do it. Special orders don't upset us. Have it YOUR way! This one, however, is pure existential bliss. Listen: East Indian rosewood with GERMAN spruce (that oft and proven KILLER combination) DEEP (dreadnought)depth body (look out Advanced Jumbo, this "small" guitar is packing heat) deluxe *41* style abalone top border and sparkling abalone rosette (why not?) dark SUNBURST (of course) Gold Wavelry tuners, belly bridge, 1 and 3/4" nut width. A prize. The grand prize. Sound nice? You bet it does. The model, "C10Dlx41Gsbcustom", is a bit of a mouthful. The guitar is an eyeful and an earful. A guitar for a person whose glass is beyond half full. $6,450 SOLD (PR) SOLD
Collings C10 Maple G SS custom (SOLD) (USED) Flame maple back and sides, German spruce top, SHORT SCALE, 1 and 3/4" nut width, abalone rosette, belly bridge, and lots of attitude. Insanely GREAT fingerstyle guitar. This is a blues guitar with that quick dark maple vibe. The German spruce really adds a think layer of complexity and sustain to a classic blues box - it's a blues guitar with a Masters degree. Ragtime, baby! Purchased new here earlier this year and traded back on a koa version of the same guitar. Act fast: Stake your claim this DEAD mint condition C-10 with master grade German spruce. Just beautiful!! $4975 new SOLD
Collings D2HG (SOLD) High grade East Idian rosewood back and sides, choice GERMAN spruce top, 1 and 3/4' nut width, drop in saddle. The flawless German top adds a touch of warmth and extended sustain to the signature Collings' tone. Really a handsome guitar. We love these German beauties and they never stay around long enough. Fresh Pics. Sorry, SOLD Thanks, Jim! SOLD
Collings CWBaaaA-SB
Brazilian
VARNISH
(SOLD) (NEW) We've been known to sling an adjective or two here about guitar tone. We won't even bother in this case, as you can surely imagine just by the model designation how this guitar might excite the eardrum. Let's talk about *value*. Every now and then someone will ask: "If I had a few bucks to invest and didn't trust this stock market, *which particular guitar* would you recommend as a superb investment for the long run? Quite often I mention *this* model: a Collings CW in AAA grade Brazilian rosewood with master grade Adirondack spruce top done up just for fun, in a Collings sunburst. Oh, and VARNISH, of course. *This* is that guitar. SOLD
Collings CW-BaaaA (Just Shoot Me!) (SOLD) - Collings Winfield with best "AAA" grade Brazilian rosewood back and sides we've seen this year and best available Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, long saddle, no tongue brace. Check out the figure and the greenish purplish hues in the AAA Brazilian! Wow. Nothing else to say - A very special guitar. Didn't last a day!! SOLD
Collings D42 Brazilian custom (SOLD) (NEW) One of the last of our 2007 Brazilian stock orders, a custom D42 with extremely fine figured AAA grade Brazilian rosewood and perfect Adirondack spruce. Custom features include an abalone bordered headstock, the flowerpot inlay, and fancy engraved gold Waverly tuners. This is a very fancy guitar, that is a given. So we'll not say more. But the sound of this thing is simply *spectacular*. It is clearly among the best sounding Brazilian dreads we have ever played, and that is saying something. So, as fancy as she is - this thing is a real *PLAYER* ! $12,900 SOLD (FN) SOLD
Collings D1A custom
Varnish
Great googlie mooglies! (NEW) It's always a great day when our UPS delivery arrives early and he has four boxes from our Texas friends at the Collings Guitar Co. for us. It's even a better day when half of those boxes contain varnish D1A guitars. Moe is taking the rest of the day to inhale the varnish, explore the depths, and play all four chords he knows on these magnificent guitars. I can hear Wayfaring Stranger wafting out of the back room right now. Moe is finding religion. Seriously, I mean all seriousness aside, these varnish guitars are the mother's milk of guitar rapture. Before Moe snatched it away, I grabbed a few shots of the first tastey morsel. Geeez Louise...just look at them! Put a fork in me, I am done. A D1A (the one to have when you are having only one) with wide grain Adirondack spruce top, no tongue brace, Adirondack bracing, cut thru saddle, a torch on the headstock which looks like 100 year old stained glass, the crisp Collings logo at fret #12 (the only inlay on the fretboard)the CW pickguard, and tortosie binding. It's a grownup's guitar. It's an heirloom grade guitar. It's one heck of a guitar. I wish it were my guitar. SOLD
Collings D1A custom
Varnish
Elvis has left the building (NEW) As if that were not torture enough, here's the second D1A varnish to arrive this week. We sell a lot of Collings guitars. The D1A is our best selling model. This is the best D1A we have ever heard. There are guitars and there are guitars. There are '68 Plymouth Satellites with slant 6 engines that make fine grocery getters - good family sedans. Then there are '69 Plymouth GTX muscle cars with hemi engines. This D1A has a hemi engine. (Moe was a gearhead) Listen: Wide grain Adirondack spruce top, no tongue brace, Adirondack bracing, drop in saddle, a torch on the headstock which looks like 100 year old stained glass, the crisp Collings logo at fret #12 (the only inlay on the fretboard)standard pickguard, and tortosie binding on the body, neck, and headstock with additional crosscut ivoroid purfling. 1 and 23/32" nut width, varnish, snakewood knobs on nickel Waverlies. The loudest and most majestic sounding D1A we've ever heard. We've been told that our descriptions tend toward the hyperbolic. We prefer to call it transference of enthusiasm. For that we offer no apology, and we submit this guitar in evidence. Booyah! This guitar arrived un-sold and lasted a full twenty minutes! SOLD
Collings DS2H
Brazilian
(SOLD) (USED) - Oh how we love the big 12 fretters and this one is a whopper. A January, 1996 Brazilian rosewood, wide grain Adirondack spruce topped, slotted headstock big dose of Texas Thunder. 1 and 13/16" nut width. Excellent ++ condition (near mint w/ newer Collings case). Consigned here by a great player and collector after he ordered one of our varnish D1A Collings. The label reads "DS2H" as Collings back then (early 2000's serial #'s) was not yet using the naming convention that they use today (by today's rules this would be designated a "DS2HBaaaA". How annoying is this - the grain in the Brazilian rosewood is so straight we had to call Collings to verify that it was Brazilian - which they verified yes indeed - rated "AAA" in 1996 which means it is off the charts today! Oh we miss those days, of finding Brazilian with such straight grain that we needed to inquire! We're reminded to tell you that Collings has built over 10,000 guitars (just passed serial # 12,000) since this one and that those of you who prefer to buy a nicely broken in Adirondack topped Collings should consider this a golden opportunity. Want an heirloom grade 12 fret Collings dreadnought? Here she is. ON CONSIGNMENT SOLD
Collings D 2 A
custom
(SOLD) (NEW) Fancy East Indian rosewood D 2 A custom - we spec'd the "cleanest" (minimal streaking) wide grain Red spruce D2 with no "H" (No herringbone purfling) and a 1 and 3/4" nut width - Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay - ivoroid knobbed Waverlies - WOOD binding (curly MAPLE) on body, fretboard, and headstock, MOM fretboard inlays modeled loosely after THIS ONE but without herringbone. (Don't need herringbone when you have $1200 worth of curly maple binding!!) Here at Acoustic Music Works, we love wood. We talk about wood all day, like a vintner talks about wine, or the way a chocolatier talks about that muddy stuff that drives Mom to distraction. We connect with wood on a very organic and spiritual level. We are soundhole sniffers. Anyway - enough about that, we got one for your Mom here! We love Adirondack spruce and we like it wild and wide - and the boys at Collings came through for us. You can drive a matchbox car between the grain lines on this stuff. But stop there? Oh no - we bound the whole darned guitar in curly maple and had them search high and low for the perfect Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay and really premium East Indian rosewood for the back. Just to finish it off, we added the *Mom* inlays. Buy it for your Mom. Buy it for Valentine's Day. Don't wait for Mother's Day. Or do something nice for Mom and buy it for yourself - you know she always wanted the best for you. Here it is. A custom Collings in honor of Moms everywhere. Lumber and love. SOLD (FW) SOLD
Collings CW Brazilian (SOLD) (NEW) - Collings Winfield with *AAA* Grade BRAZILIAN rosewood back and sides and Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, long saddle, no tongue brace. These are consistently amazing guitars. List Price: $8,500 A flagship "signature" model without peer (or signature for that matter!) A modern classic, and just perfect. SOLD
Collings CWBaA (SOLD) - slightly ahead of schedule! - Collings Winfield with nice very straight grain (slab cut) "A" grade Brazilian rosewood back and sides and our favorite select w-i-d-e and wild grained Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, long saddle, no tongue brace. This guitar is tonally superb, and no slouch to look at either. Nice! Really a lot of guitar for the price! List Price: $7,250 - Our price: $6,525 Beat the January 2006 Collings Price increase. SOLD
Collings CWMhAsb (SOLD) Collings Winfield, "CW-MhA", or as we prefer to call them, a CW-18, Honduran mahogany back and sides with *sunburst* Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, tortoise bound fretboard with cross grained purfling and no fretboard inlay, long saddle, no tongue brace. These mahogany Winfields are fairly rare. Sunburst examples are extremely rare. Be honest, you've always wanted a sunburst CW-18. We all have. Well, here's your chance. List Price: $5,075 - Our price: $4,568 No surprises here, a magnificent guitar visually and tonally. The sunburst was a fine idea...powerful loud guitar with great growl. SOLD
Collings Collings Winfield (SOLD) Another stellar "CW Indian A" - East Indian Rosewood back and sides/Adirondack spruce top, no tongue brace, long saddle, large soundhole - unparalleled power without boominess. Collings Winfield. Some bookmatched bearclaw figure in this "adi" top! Headed for Buies Creek, NC. We hated to see this one go, but glad to see it find a great home! SOLD
Collings CW 18 (SOLD) (USED) Just arrived, here on consignment - a recent Collings Winfield "18" (CW Mh A) with mahogany back and sides and Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, long saddle, no tongue brace. These are consistently strong flatpicking guitars. Loud, punchy, rip your face off guitar. How do they compare with a standard D1A? The large soundhole adds a midrange boost. The lighter build (no tongue brace) adds a certain something. Hard to describe, easy to hear. ON CONSIGNMENT Sorry - SOLD SOLD
Collings CW Indian/A (SOLD) - Collings Winfield - Recent arrival - East Indian rosewood back and sides, large soundhole, long cut thru saddle, no tongue brace, straight grain ADIRONDACK spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 1/4" bridge spacing, dalmatian pickguard. We try to always have one here and always have one on order. Wouldn't you? Arrived March 2005. Mighty cold here yesterday, so we let this one sit 24 hours before opening (and we suggest you do the same). It was worth the wait. First thing this morning we unleashed this Bengal tiger shipped here from the Austin zoo to find...oh...just another fierce and magnificent CW from the man himself. This one has aggressive, mildly malevlolent streaks in the Adirondack spruce, like war tattoos. Perfect high grade East Indian rosewood. Tone? Buckets. Snarl? Gobs. Volume? Say what? I can't hear you over this nimble and imposing creature. This is the one to take with you into battle. Thanks Greg! SOLD
Collings CW Indian/A (SOLD) (NEW) Collings Winfield with East Indian rosewood back and sides and Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, nickel Waverlies, dalmatian pickguard, long saddle, no tongue brace. These are consistently strong guitars. How do they compare with a standard D2H? "More" of everything - more snort, more sizzle, more torque. Nice to have the entire CW family (Braz, EIRW, and Mh) in stock! SOLD
Collings CW Indian/A (SOLD) - Collings Winfield - East Indian rosewood back and sides, large soundhole, long cut thru saddle, no tongue brace, wild wide grain ADIRONDACK spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, dalmatian pickguard. These guitars are unbelievable. What spruce! What POWER! Want to add some "drive" to your sound? Drive this! SOLD
Collings Collings Winfield (SOLD) An extremely clean very recent "CW Indian A" - East Indian Rosewood back and sides/ADIRONDACK spruce top, no tongue brace, long saddle, large soundhole - this one has an ebony strap button installed, and a black Greven pickguard instead of the dalmatian. For he who has not quite bonded with the dalmatian pickguard design, here's an elegant and understated CW from a fine player. VERY nicely kept. Esentially "as new". On consignment. SOLD
Collings CJMhAssSB-VARN (SOLD) (NEW) Been waiting over a year for this one. The new "it" guitar for 2008. The BIG deal, a dark tobacco sunburst Collings CJ in mahogany with Adirondack spruce top, in SHORT SCALE and slow roasted and sauteed in Texas Tone juice, that musical mudpack, that hand rubbed Collings varnish finish. We've been looking forward to this one for some time, and it rings our bell. Sorry we can't get out to get natural lighting for the photos. The pics don't do this guitar justice, but we think you get the idea. It's drop-dead gorgeous with tone to match. Another home run from the Texas A-team. Short scale and varnish, an amazing combination. The ultimate strummer. Sounds 30 years old old. (GD) SOLD
Collings CJMhAsb mahogany custom
VARNISH
(SOLD) (NEW) We tell it like it is here. And let there be no confusion about what our definition of "is" is. This guitar *is* why we love guitars. A November surprise. A fancy custom Collings CJ with mahogany back and sides, Adirondack top, dark SUNBURST, with flourish on the headstock, 1 and 3/4" nut width, tigerstripe pickguard and Uncle Bill's mystery oil: VARNISH finish. Arrived earlier than expected. We didn't expect to see this guitar until 2008. Ready for the last guitar you will ever need? Quite a treat for the eyes and ears. Like roaring thunder, like comfort food. Like autumn weather, like inner peace. Imagine the sound of utter contentment. Think it looks good? It sounds better. It sounds butter. It's pure joy. Just scary good. SOLD
Collings CJ Mh A ss sb
Varnish
(SOLD) (NEW)A special order - one of our favorite models. The short scale Collings Jumbo in mahogany with Adirondack spruce top and varnish finish. A warm, rumbling, mature sounding guitar that is beyond satisfactory. 1 and 3/4" nut width, flourish in the headstock and sunburst becasue this guitar deserves it. Firestripe pickguard just for fun. I don't care how many guitars you've played or owned (actually, I do) you'd be impressed by this one. The tone cannot be described, it must be heard. Congratulations K.B. SOLD
Collings CJ custom A
CJMRGss
(SOLD) (NEW)A custom special order - a deeply sophisticated custom CJ built with Madagascar Rosewood and high grade German spruce. Decked out with tortoise binding, MOM inlay, extra flourish in the headstock, gold Waverlies with ebony knobs, and abalone rosette. This guitar has tone until Tuesday. This guitar is short scale and is built with Adirondack braces and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. The sustain is long and the overtone is abundant. Drop D tuning turns this guitar into a chuch organ. Really quite impressive. SOLD
Collings CJ-MhA (SOLD) (Oct. 2000) Exc. Collings "CJMhA" Jumbo. Mahogany with *premium* ADIRONDACK top, dalmatian pickguard and "haircut" headstock. 1 and 3/4" nut width. Huge sound, flatpick or fingerstyle, this guitar does it all. Nicely developed (Adirondack top) voice. This one's just past puberty and is ready to take on the world. $3,300 SOLD
Collings CJMhAsb custom (SOLD) A flock of CJs - The opening volley of this cool three legged stool is a walnut stained mahogany b&s CJ with dark vintage (amber to dark brown, with a little burgundy) sunburst 1 and 3/4" nut width - Red Spruce top - ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) ivoroid knobbed Waverlies, Collings flourish in headstock, belly bridge, firestripe pickguard. Mahogany and ADIRONDACK. Of course. Just arrived ...this flock of CJ's. As requested, Collings built them for us with SEQUENTIAL serial numbers!! This one is 11894. Care to reserve the entire flock? Not surprisingly, Moe finds this mahogany/Adirondack CJ to be the feistiest of the three. Heaps of rip, snort and howl, ka-changg for the ages, and balls, balls, balls. This one loves to be flatpicked. List $5,750 SOLD
Collings CJMhA-VARN custom
Mahogany with Adirondack
VARNISH
(SOLD) (NEW) Oh now the fun begins!! This will be a custom CJ deluxe in mahogany with natural finish "Red" (Adirondack) spruce top and hand applied french polish VARNISH finish. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about! Bold and beautiful. This is the very first varnish Collings we've had arrive that was not pre-sold. A rare commodity. While we'd love to hold this back spend a few days with this magnificent dark and rumbling beast, I am compelled to admit that this guitar is in stock, is AMAZING, smells, looks, feels, and sounds fantastic, and *is* available for sale. Ken says it's like something from the 1930's. Moe is speechless. It's the finest CJ we've ever had. Let's see how long it lasts! Tick tock...GONE. SOLD
Collings CJ custom
mahogany SS
(SOLD) (NEW) A regular custom offering for us - a SHORT SCALE mahogany Collings Jumbo with sitka spruce top. Very Gibsonesque, like a J-50 on the juice. The last one looked like this and was a loose cannon with room filling warmth. Ever play a really good sounding old Gibson J-50 and say to yourself "wow, imagine how great it would be to find a new guitar built by someone like..oh maybe Bill Collings, that sounded like this but had that great Collings neck and perfect intonation and road worthy stability and insane sizzle and rip?" Well if you have (and WHO HASN'T??) look no further. Less stiff, but somehow more filling. We always try to have this model in stock or on order, and five minutes with this guitar will explain why. Reminds us very much of this *great* 1958 Gibson J-50 that we use, and Ernie Hawkins helps us validate, as a reference for these things. Extremely versatile guitar with wide dynamic range. Loose but loaded, full but not stuffed, subtle not strident, warm but never hot. A grownup's guitar. $ 4,650 SOLD
Collings CJGsb custom (SOLD) A flock of CJs - The *centerpiece* of this magnificent trio is an East Indian rosewood back & sides *CJ Deluxe* with dark vintage Gibsonesque (amber to dark brown, with some burgundy added) sunburst with 1 and 3/4" nut width - a select GERMAN Spruce top - with ivoroid binding (body, neck, and headstock) ivoroid knobbed Waverly tuners, Collings flourish in headstock, belly bridge, and firestripe pickguard. East Indian rosewood and German spruce. Second course. As requested, Collings built them for us with SEQUENTIAL serial numbers!! ("G" is 11893) Care to reserve the entire flock? Just arrived! A positively great sounding advanced jumbo style Collings. Huge and rich and loud, downright piano-like with full with heaping sustain - oh so much guitar, so little time. Sounds great with fingers or flatpick. $5,200 SOLD
Collings CJ
custom
Rosewood
German
(SOLD) (NEW) We've believed for some time that the perfect top for an East Indian rosewood guitar is European spruce. This custom guitar could be Exhibit A as it produces waves of brilliant tone and sustain. Sold to a man who spends absolutely NO time in standard tuning, he was looking for the ultimate alternate tuning Collings, and he believes he's found it. Custom features include an abalone rosette and the clean "SJ" inlay on the headstock. This customer's "other" guitars are a Brazilian/Adirondack Collings CJ and a sitka topped E.I rosewood CJ. He's now found happiness with a trifecta of Collings CJ guitars. What else can we say? SOLD
Collings CJMhss custom (SOLD) A flock of CJs (NEW- custom order) - And last, but definitely not least, yer basic J50 on steroids. You know what we are after here...we've all played a fine one or two and who better than Bill Collings to build it right? OK here goes - Collings mahogany back and sides CJ with natural finish and supple SHORT SCALE. Gotta have that good 1 and 3/4" nut width - SITKA Spruce top, belly bridge, standard CJ pickguard, tortoise body binding (body, neck, and headstock with extra purfling line to set off the binding) ivoroid knobbed Waverlies, and to match the set, we add that cool Collings flourish in headstock. Unlike that "other" company, this one to be so much better than just "Good enough!" As requested, Collings is building the flock for us with SEQUENTIAL serial numbers!! Care to reserve the entire set? What a GREAT sounding guitar. Man, oh man, she's just as we planned. (11895) She's SOLD! We will miss this guitar. San Diego's gain is our loss. (MT) SOLD
Collings D3MhA custom (SOLD) - Arrived *Ahead* of schedule!!! - beautiful D3 in mahogany with (3 series grade) Adirondack spruce top. (Our first D3Mh with an "Adi" top) This is a "Three series" D1A for the privileged class!! Say it with me: MOE hoganeee! Cash in that lazy under-performing municipal bond fund and buy this guitar. You will not regret it! Beautiful guitar - class act. Basically a real strong D1A with lots of really tasty gingerbread added. Sort of like a gold plated and engraved bazooka. $5,075 - Sorry, SOLD SOLD
Collings D2H-Asb custom (SOLD) (USED) (Exc.-) Wow - we landed a whopper here. A custom Adirondack spruce topped East Indian rosewood herringbone dreadnought with 1 and 11/16" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverly tuners, ivoroid bound neck and headstock, headstock pearl torch inlay (!) and a great Collings custom sunburst. Just rich. Custom guitar with heavy and dark East Indian rosewood, dark two tone sunburst on a real nice Adirondack top - NO TONGUE BRACE, huge sound, ivoroid binding everywhere, magnificent headstock overlay and torch - On consignment. A *magnificent* sounding Collings guitar. Even amidst the tall cotton weve got here, this one stands out. $3,850 SOLD SOLD
Collings D2H sunburst (SOLD) (NEW) A very handsome D2H guitar with dark sunburst, herringbone trim, and all that Collings muscle. SItka top, 1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverly tuners and plenty of spirit. Loud and sweet, a big sounding flatpicker for sure. No one does sunburst quite like Collings, and this handsome fella is evidence of that. SOLD
Collings D2HA (SOLD) EXC. High grade secret sauce ("deceiving" - looks like old Braz.) East Idian rosewood back and sides, choice ADIRONDACK spruce top, 1 and 3/4' nut width, drop in saddle. Schertler Bluestick pickup, dalmatian pickguard, and fossil ivory bridge pins. Very stong rhythm guitar - Superb D2h!! The Adirondack has opened up and this guitar has a warm and full growl. The pics don't lie. It's clean and mean with a G-R-E-A-T sounding pickup! Man, oh Man! On Consignment. Sorry, SOLD SOLD
Collings D2H (USED) (SOLD) A two year old D2H - 1 and 3/4" nut width - nicely maintained but nicely broken in and opened up. A real good example. We sold it new and are glad to see it again in such fine shape. A beauty! More pics: D2H Guitars this good don't hang around long - sorry SOLD. SOLD
Collings CJ-MhAsb (SOLD) - Collings standard "CJMhAsb" Jumbo - mahogany back and sides, fabulous burgundy sunburst ("Texas Beaujolais") ADIRONDACK top, 1 and 3/4' nut width, tortoise body binding. Oy! Collings does sunburst SOLD SOLD
Collings D2H-A (SOLD) (Exc.+) A beauty!! A nearly new Adirondack spruce topped East Indian rosewood herringbone dreadnought with 1 and 3/4" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverly tuners. Beautiful adirondack, big sound, nice and tight, lotsa bass, and a great feeling neck - this guitar just rips! On consignment. Fresh pics - VERY nice, two string change dings on the headstock, otherwise like new. Four months old. A GREAT sounding, HUGE strong bass, booming, near mint D2H-A! (TC) Great price! SOLD
Collings CWBaaaA (SOLD) (NEW) The modern classic - a Collings CW in AAA grade Brazilian with high grade Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, no tongue brace. A modern classic. We try to have one in the pipeline and one in the store at all times, but it's not easy. Deciding to own one of these investment grade guitars while you still can? That should be easy. ETA: February - March 2007 (PS) SOLD
Collings D2H-BaaaA custom (SOLD) AAA grade Brazilian rosewood custom Collings "D" with best available master grade Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 11/16" nut width, drop-in saddle, curly maple body, neck, and headstock bindings, maple soundhole rosette, gold Waverly tuners with gold knobs and gold strap button. Add a highly figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay with "flourish" headstock inlay and "Mom" fretboard inlays. Customer Special Order. Pre-SOLD, and drop dead gorgeous. SOLD
Collings D2H-G (SOLD) - great straight, dark and heavy East Indian rosewood Collings D2H with pure silver wide grained German spruce top, 1 and 3/4" nut width, nickel Waverlies. Some of the darkest East Indian rosewood we have seen in some time. Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay. This guitar is on fire! Several serious inquiries already - these always go quickly. Just arrived - pics and more complete description soon...soaring overtones, strong sizzle, singing sustain, Sorry, SOLD. Didn't last a day! More on order. Care to reserve the next "G"? SOLD
Collings D2G
custom
(SOLD) To all of you who keep asking us why we love German spruce so much (and to those of you with German spruce guitars on order) we present these pictures (and we will spare you the thousand words) FEAST your eyes on this positively magnificent and brilliantly conceived guitar which rolled through our ever so humble lumber shop today!!! Look at that special "dark" and heavy East Indian rosewood, the engraved Waverlies, that flawless silver wide grain German, the MOM inlay, Brazilian overlay, oh my!!!! This guitar rings like the Liberty Bell - Let Feedom ring!!! SOLD
Collings D2H-G (SOLD) We love these German topped beauties and they never stay around long enough. German spruce takes the edge off an otherwise strident guitar and adds sustain and thickness. Our standard - 1 and 3/4" nut width, Tor-tis pickguard, nickel Waverlies. Always popular, never last more than a few weeks. Fresh pics. Beautiful silvery German spruce, big fat juicy tone on this one. It was love at first sight - this one is SOLD - Thanks Ric! SOLD
Collings D2H-G (SOLD) - January 2006 - 1 and 11/16" nut width. Right on schedule. We love these German beauties. These German D2H's never hang around long. Sorry - this one has been SOLD. Thanks Mark! SOLD
Collings D2H-G (SOLD) (NEW) We sell a lot of these. EIRW and GERMAN spruce. This one will also have ivoroid knobbed Waverlies and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. A good idea to reserve one if you are interested. These often sell before they arrive. ETA: Very late September or early October. Beautiful German spruce top on this one - perfectly straight grain, and very even. Great balance on this HUGE sounding guitar, very lush and full with power to spare. Sorry, SOLD - it did not last through the first 24 hours. SOLD
Collings D2H-G (NEW) (SOLD) - ETA mid-January 2006 - 1 and 3/4" nut width. We love these German beauties. These German D2H's never hang around long. List Price: $3,875 - SORRY, this guitar has been sold. Next (2 on order) German D2H ETA: late Summer - Inquire SOLD
Collings D2H-G (SOLD) (NEW) We sell a lot of these. The flagship model with the extra inducement of German spruce-ment. This one has ivoroid knobbed Waverlies and the standard 1 and 11/16" nut width. These sound great with the added sustain and fat singing trebles that German spruce delivers and generally sell *very* quickly. A good idea to reserve one if you are interested. Just arrived - an exceptional sounding D2H-G. Loud with amazing clarity and fullness. Don't settle for less. $3,800 (2006 pricing) SOLD to one of Nashville's best pickers! (AC) SOLD
Collings D3Gsb custom (SOLD) (NEW) - 1 and 11/16" nut width - Collings' fanciest standard model, the elusive D3, this one in a heart pumping dark sunburst with a master grade German spruce top concealed ever so surrepticiously underneath! Whatcha packin' there, Bubba? Beautiful dark East Indian rosewood with some nice visual character. Big sound. Fireworks and church bells. Style 3 cosmetics include bound headstock and Gold Waverly open back tuners of course. Just as you'd expect, a marvel to look at and to play. Some serious eye candy and ear candy! Got GAS (Guitar Acquisition Syndrome?) Let this guitar introduce you to our GCP - Guitar Consolidation Program. Unload the rest, settle on the best. DeeThreee!!! Sold to one of Pittsburgh's best Irish musicians - SOLD. (2006 pricing) SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) - Indian rosewood with sitka spruce top, 1 and 11/16" nut width. Dalmatian pickguard on this one. A particularly strong D2H. Power with fullness and clarity. Beautiful dark straight grained East Indian rosewood. A beast! Headed to Nashville!!! Don't be surprised to see this guitar win Winfield in the able hands of its new owner! SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) (USED) - - A seven year old (1999) well played D2H with binding on neck and headstock and great Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay - excellent sound, very good condition in spite of some cosmetic issues (several dings on the headstock and top, one finish check, and nice DEEP pick scratches from a very aggressive right hand) - sitka spruce top, 1 and 11/16" nut width, original case (with one broken back latch), strap button installed. Currently set up for bluegrass flatpicking with mediium gauge phosphor bronze strings and a stiff action (4/32" at 12th fret). Sunrise pickup installed (nice sounding professional grade pickup) - consigned here by a pro. Well used, nicely broken in, LOUD, real deep bass, fully developed tone. Priced with Sunrise pickup. Pro setup - ready to go. And it did "go" quickly! SOLD
Collings D2HAsb
custom
(SOLD) (USED) (Exc.) custom D2HAsb - 1 and 11/16" nut width, tortoise style pickguard, nickel Waverlies. One of the customs, built with no tongue brace, but plenty of tongue! Special request dark and heavy set EIRW with very dark two tone sunburst with full neck and headstock ivoroid binding and the always super-cool torch on the headstock. Just the way we like 'em. Hot and heavy. Very nicely priced for a custom guitar of this quality. Comparable list price new - $ 5750 SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) (USED) - - 1 and 3/4" nut width. Worthy of considerable bandwidth. A thirteen year old (1/93) drop-dead insane sounding Collings D2H - in PLAYED condition with a dark suntan and some magnificent dings and plenty of visual as well as tonal character - set up with medium strings and medium action. A guitar of superb provenance, this D2H knows a lot of great tunes, has been featured on recordings and video, and has shared the stage with some of the greatest players in the business! If you've been craving a "monster" D2H that is not afraid to leave the living room - and will rip the face off even the cheekiest banjo player - reach for that speed-dial now - don't expect this one to last the weekend! Includes a McIntyre pickup and original case. Good for what ails ya - just ask Doc Watson. All the flatpick guys know this as "Jack's guitar". Long Gone. SOLD
Collings D2H-V (SOLD) (USED) - A six year old (11/2000) well played D2H with vintage neck (1 and 3/4" nut width and wide saddle spacing) - most excellent sound, extremely fine condition, original case. Currently set up for light flatpicking with even fingerstyle (!!) with light gauge phosphor bronze strings and a low action (3/32" at 12th fret). Well played, minimal wear but nicely broken in tonally, very deep bass, and fully developed balanced tone throughout. Won't last the week - SORRY - SOLD SOLD
Collings D2HSB (SOLD) (USED) - - 1 and 3/4" nut width. A four year old (2001) drop-dead GORGEOUS dark sunburst D2H - near mint condition - set up with light strings and LOW action. This one plays itself! If you've been craving a sunburst D2H - reach for that speed-dial now - don't expect this one to last the weekend! $3,050 Gone!! SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) (USED) (Exc.) 1999 D2H - 1 and 11/16" nut width, tortoise style pickguard, nickel Waverlies. Nicely broken in, but well kept. Nice husky rumble with that surgical Collings clarity. A few light scratches. Strap button installed. Martin Thinline pickup and end pin jack installed. OHSC. Nice clean and strong D2H. Fits like a glove, goes with everything - good for what ails ya. Headed to Italy to our good friend Ermanno! SOLD
Collings D2HAsb (SOLD) (USED) - - A three year old (2003) drop-dead GORGEOUS dark sunburst D2HAsb - excellent, near mint condition save for some very minimal fret wear - D2 herringbone, ADIRONDACK spruce top, sunburst, Collings. Original case, strap button installed. Very nicely kept. $3,550 SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) (Exc.) (2001) standard sitka spruce topped Indian rosewood dreadnought with 1 and 11/16" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverly tuners and strap button. Nice low action - a Steve set up with light (.012") gauge strings. We like this guitar. Sweet balanced sound. We sold it here a few years ago and now it's back - traded here on a new custom order Collings. Oh, the great cycle of life.... Sorry...SOLD SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) Very clean Indian rosewood Collings D2H with sitka spruce top, 1 and 11/16" nut width. Great looking headstock veneer, nice tall saddle, nice and loud and clear. Great strummer or bluegrass guitar. Just another consistently fine Collings D2H. What's not to like? Sorry, SOLD. SOLD
Collings D2H-G
German Spruce
(SOLD)(NEW) We sell a whole lot of these. Seriously...as *good* as a sitka topped D2H is? Well....if you hear a German topped D2H, you'll understand..) Honestly, EIRW and GERMAN spruce. Oooh, that smell. Out of this world. They generally sell before they arrive or immediately upon arrival, so I hope you have us on speed-dial.... list price $ 4,075 Just arrived - This one has a very tight grain pattern with some color in the top. 1 and 3/4" nut width. Another GREAT sounding Collings! (JH) SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) The flagship of the Collings line. East Indian rosewood back and sides with an unusual and elegant swirl pattern on the sides (see pic), sitka spruce top, herringbone top trim, Waverly tuners. This one has the optional 1 and 3/4" nut width. All the guitar one could ever need. SOLD Thanks Mark! (MD) SOLD
Collings D2H (SOLD) - (1993) A "players" D2H - serial # 693. Collings flagship model - sitka spruce topped Indian rosewood dreadnought with 1 and 3/4" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverly tuners and strap button. We're pretty excited to land this big fish: a real "players" Collings from a great player. This one has some well earned dings, pick wear, and finish checking, some hot-rodding (no pop brace), and great provenance, having been owned and played by a few *very* distinguished players. Great top, darkened by the Merlefest sun. Great open roaring warm D2H. More bass response than I have ever heard on a D2H. 12 years and great mojo! Nice tall saddle, tweed case, and Macintyre pickup installed. Traded here on a new custom mahogany Collings. Recently set up by Brian Kimsey We had high expectations for this guitar, and we took it sight unseen from a hot Nashville picker who we know and trust. We were not disappointed. I am sure, those of you who have a hankering for a "player's D2H," that your fingers are already twitching. Give in. Sell the boat - buy the guitar. Sorry - Already gone. I am standing in the eye of a hurricane watching Collings guitars fly out of here.... SOLD
Collings D1AV sb (USED) The one to have when you are having only one! This is one mighty special custom D1A built for the 2007 NAMM Show in Los Angeles - that's right, this D1A is just *six weeks old* and it's been traded here on an OM sized Collings guitar. This guitar has killer volume with a rip-yer-face-off hot midrange - one of the hottest and loudest D1As we've heard with a D string that can break glass. Light style one (shade top) sunburst, tortoise pickguard and the ever popular 1 and 3/4" nut width, cut thru saddle with the VINTAGE NOW neck. Lists for $5,275. Sold new for $4748 six weeks ago - available now for almost 20% less. Should last a day or two at most... Like new condition, freakin' beautiful, and ready to rumble. What a guitar!! Take no prisoners! Yeehaaaa - yikes, hold your calls folks, we already have a winner! SOLD in twenty minutes! (KR) SOLD
Collings AT16
16" archtop
(SOLD) (USED) Our first trade-in involving a Collings archtop model, and we're certain we won't get any sleep tonight. A rare opportunity indeed! In our opinion, one of the most underpriced collectibles available today. Put some Texas swing in your guitar stable. Essentially new and unscathed, still has the original strings on her. A rare opportunity....might just be a safer bet than those mutual funds that are not much fun to play anyhow. A near mint Collings 16" sunburst archie. What are you waiting for?? SOLD
Collings CJ sb (SOLD) (USED) East Indian rosewood and sitka. 1 and 11/16" nut width. Nicely set up. Coming in from a good pal, this guitar is guaranteed to have plenty of mojo. It's a nicely kept, gently-gigged with Collings CJ (East Indian rosewood/sitka top) with full body, neck, and headstock binding and that great tobacco sunburst. This guitar has an L.R. Baggs M-1 (soundhole pickup, passive - installed by Flip Scipio) installed and suits this guitar. It's got two or three lacquer dings on the top (very light, lacquer impressions only) and is a very nicely broken in circa 2004 big bear of a guitar that sounds fantastic. An extremely POWERFUL advanced jumbo guitar for flatpick, strum, heavy fingerstyle. You name it - it can take a heavy hand and it just rips! ON CONSIGNMENT - SOLD SOLD
Collings OM custom
Brazilian
(SOLD) (USED) This kind of *lucky find* is often treated as "private stock" here - and often a guitar as unique as this does not get listed, or we should say, it sells before we get it listed. We keep a "Want List" and some treasures disappear before our loquacious webmaster gets wind of them. We have decided to go ahead and prominently list this one just so we can all have some fun with it, while we check with Collings to see exactly what we have. Well, here's what we have. It is a marvelous one-of-a-kind custom model - would probably be designated an OM3HBA.. "something" if we ordered one like it today, but we'd be unable, without a time machine, to find this kind of old Growth Brazilian rosewood (the pics speak for themselves - this is some extremely exotic and fine wood) that was a rare find when they decided to use it in 1994 - the top is private stock GERMAN spruce (verified by Collings) and the inlays are a unique banjo-style design done by Tom Ellis at Precision Pearl Inlay. No need to throw adjectives at this guitar - it is what it is - a well kept thirteen year old Collings custom Brazilian rosewood OM guitar with unique engraved inlays and a marvelous pedigree. It's one of the finer things in life. It's a man with a plan. And, it has been SOLD. (CM) Found a home in Winston-Salem, NC. SOLD
Collings OM2BaaA (SOLD)(NEW) AA grade Brazilian rosewood Collings OM. Add Red Spruce top, hold the herringbone, add ivoroid knobs and 1 and 3/4" nut width. You add the fingers. Superb value in a very classy Brazilian rosewood orchestra model from the world's premiere builder. I got to spend two minutes with it, and it was the best two minutes of my day. Rich deep sound, amazingly responsive, and set up to satisfy even the most demanding player. One of the finer things in life, a Brazilian rosewood Collings guitar. SOLD (Bill O'H) SOLD
Collings OM2EssSB (SOLD)(NEW) OM2 (no herringbone) East Indian rosewood Collings Orchestra model with a medium pale sunburst on a tight grain Englemann spruce top, 1 and 3/4" nut width, and SHORT SCALE. If you think Collings guitars are "stiff", you've never played an Englemann topped short scale Collings. You've been hanging out at the wrong guitar shops! This maginifcent guitar is easy to look at. Easy on the eyes - easy on the fingers. Buttery smooth and sweet, loose but not lazy, easy on the left hand, but still mighty responsive. It *is* a Collings, after all. Warmer than usual, a magnificent fingerstyle OM. An ideal "second" Collings for the lucky person who already has a D2H or D1A. An ideal first Collings for someone struggling with lesser guitars. (SOLD) (DE) SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) (USED) We are unabashedly passionate about Collings D1A guitars. This one is coming up from down South where they know a good guitar when they hear one. Seriously folks, we have some serious Collings fans out there and the gentleman (and I mean that) who is consigning this guitar (and the CW below) takes VERY good care of his guitars. I have not seen it yet, but he assures me (and I trust him) that it is in SUPERB condition. If you want to buy a nearly new looking Collings D1A at a good "used" price - this could be worth the price of a phone call. I do not expect either of these consignments to gather much dust here. If history serves, this man's consignments tend to sell quickly (within a few days) and are mighty satisfying. They are like garage-kept Shelby Mustangs driven only (but joyfully) on Sundays. Interested? Can't blame you. No pics yet as Moe has locked himslef in a room with this one for 30 minutes and emerged with one succint comment: This D1A sounds TREMENDOUS! Pics soon - sold new a few months ago for $ 4,072.50. Buy it now for $3,450 A few inquiries already...Pics tomorrow....if it lasts that long. The Adirondack top on this guitar is as ugly as the Mona Lisa. Seriously, this Red spruce is crazy dark and streaky, bearclaw infused and imbued of raucous character. Next to the Snow White Adirondack on the CW below, this looks like salvaged barnwood. Salvaged from Charles Sawtelle's barn if you get our drift. If you get that reference, you'll know how we feel about this guitar. Battle-ready, pug-nosed, and a little scary. SORRY - this guitar is SOLD. SOLD
Collings CW MhA SB
Sunburst
(NEW) Ahhhh...the Collings CW model. This model generally doesn't require a lot of explanation. It speaks for itself and is the stuff of legend. We all want one, sooner or later. This one is slightly more rare as it is built of mahogany and has a fabulous light sunburst over an amazingly good Adirondack spruce top. No one does sunburst like Collings. The standard nut width on a CW is that perfect 1 and 23/32". The bridge spacing is 2 and 1/4". The sound is classic. The oomph is in. This one barks with the big dogs. SOLD
Collings CWMhA (SOLD) (USED) We are positively goofy about Collings D1A guitars. This one is the CWMhA variant, which is essentially a D1A with no tongue brace, large soundhole, 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2 and 4/16" saddle spacing and the "CW" pickguard. This one is coming up from the same down South guitar enthusiast as the D1A above. Who would get rid of two such GREAT "nearly new" guitars you ask?? Someone who just took delivery of one of our varnish mahogany/Adirondack Collings and who has acheived that all too rare one-ness with his new guitar. Seriously folks, we have some serious Collings fans out there and the gentleman (and I mean that) who is consigning this guitar (and the D1A above) takes VERY good care of his guitars. I have not seen it yet, but he assures me (and I trust him) that it is in SUPERB condition. If you want to buy a nearly new looking Collings CWMhA at a good "used" price - this could be worth the price of a phone call. I do not expect either of these consignments to gather much dust here. If history serves, this man's consignments tend to sell quickly and are mighty satisfying. They are like garage-kept Shelby Mustangs driven only (but joyfully)on Sundays. Interested? Can't blame you. This guitar has the best set of Adirondack spruce ($1000 upcharge for this set, new) that we have seen here in two years. It is picture perfect. If you've been looking for straight grain Adirondack with NO streaks, this is the guitar. Remarkable, really. This wood would please the most demanding soul in the guitar business (and did!) Sold new in May of 2007 for $4,522. On sale now (in the same new condition) for $3,995. SOLD SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) (1-2000) mahogany and Adirondack spruce custom dreadnought with 1 and 23/32" nut width neck. Torch inlay on headstock, tortoise binding on body, fretboard, and headstock, cross-grained purfling on the neck and headstock. No fretboard inlay, dalmatian pickguard, ivory bridge pins, long cut thru saddle. A VERY special guitar. SOLD. A similar model on order. SOLD
Collings D1A We love Collings D1A guitars. There, we said it. This impressive beast is from 1999. Pre Y2K, and for some crazy reason (Y2K made us all crazy) the label is marked "D2H". Go figure. I'm here to tell you, this is no D2H! Moe knows a D1A when he sees one, and this has D1A written all over it (well, not really... but I guess we've already covered that) just trust us, mahogany and Adirondack she is, Indian rosewood she aint. It's all there, and the mis-labeling gives it interesting character somehow - so does the wide grained sun darkened top and the "coolest* looking Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay we've seen in a very long time. Fresh pics. This is a sturdy and solid D1A, perfect for the most aggressive player, really holds up under heavy strumming or hard picking. This one's for flatpicking with a heavy pick and medium strings. Nothing squeamish here. 1 and 3/4" nut width, CW pickguard, frets have been dressed, strap button installed. Eight years old, LOUD, and ready to rumble. Original case. Everything in VERY good condition. and...not surprisingly...quickly SOLD. Headed for Switzerland. SOLD
Collings Custom D1A sunburst (SOLD) D1A custom - "medium dark" sunburst loosely modeled after THIS ONE 1 and 3/4" nut width - Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay - ivoroid knobbed Waverlies - add a style 3 backstrip Just arrived - drop dead gorgeous .... more pix soon - as soon as we can pry it away from Moe - gotta get him un-Moe-tivated.. Sorry - didn't make it through the first week - SOLD SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) (USED) Always nice to have one of these come in on trade. A 4 or 5 year old D1A (serial number obscured by the battery bag for the pickup), nicely aged and well played. This is not a living room Collings. It's been to a bluegrass festival or two. It's got a few light scratches and dings, but it is set up perfectly and is in excellent condition overall. It has an L.R.Baggs I-Beam pickup installed (active pickup, 9 volt battery, soundhole volume wheel) land a strap button. The Adirondack spruce top is clear and very high grade. The grain is medium and very even. The tone is well developed, quite full, and has that characteristic Collings growl. Oh, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. The case has one broken latch. SOLD
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(SOLD) Another AMAZING Collings D1A, one of our customs - this one with no tongue brace, Adirondack spruce bracing, style one sunburst, dalmatian pickguard, streaked ebony headstock overlay, nickel Waverly tuners with ebony knobs, 1 and 23/32" nut width, and tortoise binding. Sounds pretty, doesn't she? Just arrived - if you think she *looks* good, you should hear this thing! Whadda guitar. Wouldn't change a thing. We'd like to say we are surprised, taken aback, shocked, shaken, and stunned. But we are not, the guitar is *exactly* what we expected, and Collings came through as they always do! Sell the rest. Buy the best. (TT) SOLD
Collings CWBaA (SOLD) (NEW) The modern classic - a Collings CW in A grade Brazilian with Adirondack spruce top, 1 and 23/32" nut width, no tongue brace. The lowest price-entry point for an investment grade Brazilian rosewood Collings CW guitar. The A grade Brazilian is generally slab sawn and less visually brilliant than the AA or AAA grade stuff, but at $1000 less, the sound and investment VALUE of "A" grade is unsurpassed if you are ready to make that final step up to BRAZILIAN rosewood. Regarding Brazilian, do we hear a difference? Yes, for the thousandth time, yes. There just *is* a difference. Whether or not you *need* a Brazilian rosewood guitar is up to you and your chief financial officer, but *yes* there is a diffference. With no more Brazilian orders being accepted by Collings, this A grade Brazilian CW is a great opportunity. $8000 SOLD
Collings 290 custom (SOLD) (NEW) Collings "LP Special" style electric guitar - in custom ivory/creme color with optional pearloid pickguard and peghead veneer. High gloss lacquer finish, solid mahogany body, two custom P-90 pickups by Jason Lollar, Tone Pro bridge and tailpiece, black knobs and no pickup rings, great looking highly figured rosewood fretboard, nickel Sperzel tuners with pearl knobs. Black truss rod cover and pickup covers. Grained ivoroid dot fretboard inlays. We call her Vanilla Ice. She's SOLD SOLD
Collings D1A custom (varnish) (SOLD) - Another (!) of our VERY POPULAR pre war style Collings D1A customs - we're starting to call it our "1939 Collings D1A" - Travel back in time with us. Clear wide grain master grade ADIRONDACK spruce top, light honey brown stained Honduran mahogany back and sides, style 3 backstrip, NO TONGUE BRACE, 1 and 3/4" nut width, standard 2 and 3/16" saddle spacing, very stately looking ebony peghead overlay and Collings logo. This one has no dots on the fretboard, (trust me, the owner knows very well where to put his fingers) but it's got tortoise binding on the neck and headstock as well as additional crosscut ivoroid purfling and nickel Waverly tuners, and cut thru saddle. Lighter build and "woodier" than your typical D1A, open, full, strong, growling, light and loud. Go back in time. These sound old and new at the same time. As you can see from the pictures, with each varnish guitar, Collings is getting a better lustre and more consistent results. Took over a year to get, but was worth the wait! $6000 Sorry, SOLD! SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) (NEW) We sell a whole lot of these. We know our D1A guitars, that's for sure. This one has nickel Waverlies, nice Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. These guitars need no introduction. The Jaminator. They sound great and generally sell very quickly. Collings D1A - the one to have when you are having only one! If you're considering one, don't hesitate...they never hang around long and this one is priced at 2006 levels! (2007 guitars increase by $200 base price and Adirondack spruce increases by $150) SOLD (TF) SOLD
Collings D1 (SOLD) (Used) A "players" D1. We took this one on trade. This 1997 Texas workhorse has been played! Wide open, high octane, loaded for bear. She's had some work done. This guitar might not be for the faint of heart. Looks like ol' Doctor Lashbrook has administered a treatment or two, then it appears that the esteemable Sheriff Kimsey has laid down the law and done some re-tuning and fine tuning (including nut spacing and a PMTE) I see signs of a neck re-set and a re-fret a few years back. Nice to handle a Collings that's been played hard. Some light belt buckle rash, a few microphone stand dings, and considerable top wear - good character building bare knuckle pick tracks in the top. Not a tea party Collings. Honest player wear - No structural flaws. ...anyway...what we have here is a Collings D1, no tongue brace, a PMTE, modified Waverly tuners, long saddle of some exotic tusk material, some low-profile organic material bridge pins, and face-ripping power. In the wrong hands, this guitar can be overly loud, glassy and unforgiving. In good hands, it can tear paint off the wall. In the right hands, this thing could win Winfield. The current setup (Kimsey) is magnificent. It almost plays itself. SOLD Headed for California - SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) 1996 D1(A) - Well played mahogany and Adirondack spruce dreadnought. Trade-in from One Guitar Johnny in OKC - Setup by Bryan Kimsey. A VERY fine guitar. Big sound, well aged. Popsicle-ectomy, new bone nut and compensated saddle, french polish neck treatment, and PMTE by Mr. Kimsey. Some lacquer checking, dings, and honest player wear. Not a "living room" Collings. Even better, this one's been to Winfield, Kaufman Kamp, and Amarillo, and been played around the campfire. Lots of character. GREAT Kimsey setup. Classic sound. Did I mention the big open sound? $2,900 Wow, that sold fast! SOLD
Collings D1A Custom SB (SOLD) (NEW) Another Keep 'em coming!! Another (!) of our custom Collings D1A guitars - this one has a "style one" sunburst, and ivoroid body binding with a dalmatian pickguard, ADIRONDACK top, honey brown stain on Honduran mahogany back and sides, NO TONGUE BRACE, custom 1 and 23/32" nut width, drop in saddle, no fretboard inlay, vividly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay with Collings logo, nickel Waverly tuners with vintage ivoroid knobs. An absolutely beautiful guitar with all the tone that Collings is known for. Forget the rest, buy the best of the best. The Collings guitars are just flying out of here. Be sure to catch one for yourself ! $4,850 This guitar went to an absolutely marvelous player - really a perfect match! SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) - Collings D1A custom - ADIRONDACK top, premium mahogany back and sides, style 3 backstrip, NO TONGUE BRACE, custom 1 and 23/32" nut width, vividly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay with abalone torch inlay, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, drop in saddle, no fretboard inlay. Lighter and "woodier" than your typical D1A, open, full, strong, growling, and loud. A nice looking box with the perfect neck, cool torch, and tor-tis pickguard. Mo' mahogany! The pics don't do it justice - we'll try to get some zingers when we get a sunny day - if it stays here that long :-0 Disclaimer: I don't want everyone reaching in their guitars to yank the tongue brace, but having Collings build a D1A that way from the ground up is a fine thing indeed. You can really smell the coffee when this guitar gets hot! Several have called it the "best sounding guitar in the store" and given what we have here, that is saying something! Stone cold perfect, and it has initiated a D1A feeding frenzy! Makes our "Top 10" list. First in a series - More just like it on order - care to reserve one? SOLD
Collings D3MhG custom (SOLD)(NEW) Another of our very fancy custom (style 3) mahogany dreads. Who else reveres mahogany like us? Three cheers for Moe! Premium grade GERMAN spruce top, "custom" light (walnut) stain mahogany back and sides, highly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay, gold Waverly tuners, drop in saddle, Collings bevelled pickguard, abalone and black/white strip rosette, no fretboard inlay, style 3 backstrip, 1 and 3/4" nut width, grained ivoroid binding and black/ivoroid purfling on body, neck, and headstock. Here at Moe's House of Mahogany, we are forever trying to elevate mahogany guitars to their rightful place on the tonewood appreciation scale. These guitars accomplish that pretty handily. Great for Eagles tunes or CSNY stuff, strumming (full brilliant chords) or drop D (great clarity and sustain) capoing at the seventh fret (big fat trebles) or DADGAD or fingerstyle. Lots of crystal clear overtone and a certain thick brilliant harmonic chime. $4,775 SOLD (Thanks JH) SOLD
Collings D1A custom Just arrived (NEW) Our best selling model, and one for which we are well known. This is one of our custom models with no tongue brace, light build, 1 and 3/4" nut, *no* fretboard inlay and WIDE grain "barn wood" Adirondack spruce top, Adirondack spruce braces, fancy Brazilian rosewood headstock veneer, and tone to the bone. Collings D1A: The one to have when you are having only one. Moe spent a few minutes getting to know this one. His personal guitar is similarly configured, and he looks for the right combination of woodiness and breathiness. It's a subtle thing. Some say these have slightly more bass than a standard D1A, some say they have less ferocity. Dunno. This one *has* plenty o' ferocity, I'll tell you that. They got that old pre-war thang going on, just an extra wisp of woof. These are also great candidates for a low-action light gauge string dreadnought if your style is something other than hairy-armed bluegrasser. Life is short. You decide. $4,575 SOLD (TC) SOLD
Collings D1A custom (varnish) (SOLD) (NEW) The new standard for flat top steel string guitars Moe's House of Mahogany welcomes one of our custom D1As (wide straight grain, minimal streaking Red spruce, lightly built, no tongue brace, lighter walnut stain on mahogany, style 3 backstrip, 1 and 23/32" nut width, highly figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, pearl torch inlay in headstock, nickel Waverlies with snakewood knobs, drop in saddle) with the new Collings VARNISH finish. Trust us. You need to get you one of these. Ordered Jan, 2006, arrived late October. Oh Mama!! Be still my heart! This is the one. You know, we sell a bunch of D1As, custom and otherwise, and we really do know a great one when we hear one. This is, hands down, the guitar I want to be buried with. Unfortunately, I am shipping it to Boulder, to the luckiest man in Colorado. Seriously folks, a varnish D1A is one of those items that defies description. Now, the varnish is a thinner finish and if you are one of those folks (you know who you are) who looks at these amazing Collings guitars with a magnifying glass for the slightest variation or "flaw", if you are looking for polished glass and impossibly perfect and level finish thickness, the varnish finish is not for you. Real humans apply this stuff and it's quite organic and labor intensive. Having said that, Collings is known to exceed human standards and as varnish finishes go, we've not seen one finer. That Collings guy, he doesn't settle, and neither should you. Tone? This thing makes grown men cry. Oh, stop yer wining. Does the varnish make a difference? Of course it does. Is it worth it? ($2000) That's up to you. Does your playing require it? Again, that's between you and your chief financial officer. Is the varnish as resilient and protective a finish as lacquer? No, of course not. If you play outdoors in 95 degree heat, buy a lacquer D1A and leave the varnish in your recording studio. Will a varnish D1A change your life? Yes, decidedly yes. Always nice to have a two-time Winfield National Guitar Champ stop by and validate our opinion of a killer guitar, as Robert Shafer did for this one (see pics) Oh, life is good. SOLD
Collings D1 (SOLD) (USED) - (2004) Collings mahogany dreadnought, sitka spruce top, mahogany back and sides, very slight pick wear on the top around the soundhole and pickguard, some brush scratches on the pickguard. Otherwise in LIKE NEW condition. Consigned here with what the owner called "the original strings" (and judging by the grunge on them, I'd believe him) - 1 and 11/16" nut width, beautiful Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay,with nickel Waverly tuners, nice tall bone (drop in) saddle, beveled Collings pickguard, tortoise body binding. Fresh setup with GHS True Medium strings. This guitar has a great 7/64" action at the 12th fret and just sings. Big open alive tone. A bare bones Collings D1 - all tone no gingerbread. If you'd like a nearly new one at a very fair used price - look no further. On consignment. $2,200 SOLD - Only lasted a week. SOLD
Collings D1A sb (SOLD) (NEW) A beautiful "style one" sunburst Collings D1A guitar with our favorite - wide grain Adirondack spruce. This one has nickel Waverlies and a 1 and 3/4" nut width and ebony headstock overlay. Moe always puts a CW (dalmatian) pickguard on a sunburst D1A. You'll see why. This one is a light and loud D1A with lots of spitfire. Playing it against a fine Martin D-18 Authentic here, the D18 feels heavy and sounds tubby and thick. The D1A cuts like a surgical sawzall with lots of fat pop and snarl. $ 4,850 A *real* nice D1A. Sold RIGHT away! SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) mahogany back and sides, natural finish ADIRONDACK spruce top, 1 and 3/4" nut width, cut thru saddle, nickel Waverlies. Arrived in tune. Grab a four finger G chord - Ka-changgg...ahhh! "Collings D1A" ('nuff said!!) This one is a little less stiff than some "Adi" topped guitars. Sounds nice and open, and has warmth and character combined with plenty of that characteristic Collings power. Bold red Adirondack streaks on the face of this one! Sweet. Come on in and see and hear what all this Holy Grail talk is about. Sorry, SOLD (Thanks Tom!) SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) Every flatpicker's favorite. Muscular, responsive, and crunchy. Care for a little bearclaw with your Adirondack? Mahogany back and sides, natural finish Adirondack spruce top with an unusual amount of bearclaw - nicely bookmatched, 1 and 3/4" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverlies. The same bear who scratched this spruce left his growl in it as well - we call this guitar "the beast". Loaded for bear. A fierce sounding guitar, stiff in the very best way. Come on in and compare it to all our other D1As and assorted ADIRONDACK topped guitars (Man, I like the sound of that!) Sorry, SOLD (Thanks Bill!) SOLD
Collings D1A Sunburst (SOLD) mahogany back and sides, a special order "let's go dark" custom sunburst finish ADIRONDACK spruce top, 1 and 3/4" nut width, drop-in saddle, nickel Waverlies. We asked Collings to go "slightly dark" on the burst on this one - more of a definite "burst" than their normal vintage "shade-top." I opened the case and gasped. They read our minds and nailed it! Man o' man, they're good with a spray can! See the pics. The sound? Another typical D1A, which is to say pure muscle and crunch, lumber and love. The one guitar to have if you're having only one. Drop dead gorgeous sunburst - like polished glass. SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) - Every time the UPS truck pulls up, it's another cause for celebration around here! Here's the most recent in our very successful series of custom D1A guitars from Collings. An attempt to retain all that quick power and edge while adding some woof and woodiness by leaving out the tongue brace. Another Collings D1A custom - Just like the crowd pleaser above - except this one has the dalmatian pickguard. Gorgeous wide grain ADIRONDACK top, coffee color Honduran mahogany back and sides, tortoise binding, style 3 backstrip, NO TONGUE BRACE, just about the perfect custom 1 and 23/32" nut width neck, vividly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay with abalone torch inlay, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, drop in saddle, no fretboard inlay. Yow!!! Lighter and "woodier" than your typical D1A, open, full, strong, growling, and loud. ETA mid-February. Sorry, this one has some lucky duck's name on it. John has been counting the days. SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) ADIRONDACK top, mahogany back and sides, 1 and 3/4" nut width, 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing, NO TONGUE BRACE, highly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay, Waverly nickel tuners, long thru saddle, dalmatian pickguard, no fretboard inlay, abalone and pearl torch inlay in headstock. This one only graced the store for half a day. One quick round of Whiskey Before Breakfast and she's on her way - alert homeland security - this big loose cannon has been overnighted to its anxious owner - SOLD SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) - Another (!) Collings D1A custom. Can we say these get better with each one? Honestly no. Collings has thing this DOWN and this one, as the others, is just magnificent, that's all. This is our signature custom D1A - a lighter and woofier pre war style 18. It sports a bevelled Greven pickguard, natural ADIRONDACK top, honey brown stain on Honduran mahogany back and sides, style 3 backstrip, NO TONGUE BRACE, custom 1 and 23/32" nut width, standard 2 and 3/16" saddle spacing, vividly figured Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay, Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs, drop in saddle, no fretboard inlay, and that headstock adorning, conversation starting, "oooh" inspiring pearl and abalone torch. Heirloom quality, inspiration infused, sheer guitar pulchritude and attitude. Lighter and "woodier" than your typical D1A, open, full, strong, growling, and loud. Did I mention it was loud? (517) Only two days in - this killa is on its way to Killen, Alabama! Care to reserve the next one? SOLD
Collings D1A (SOLD) - 1 and 11/16" nut width - with just a few cosmetic upgrades (highly figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay and ivoroid knobs on nickel Waverly tuners. (Plain ebony headstock overlay and nickel knobs are standard on this model) Tonally, it's a all D1A which as we all know, is a very good thing. Thanks Dave! (SOLD) SOLD
Collings D1A Custom (SOLD) - Yet another (!) Collings D1A custom - this one special order but built for store stock - this one has ivoroid body binding with a deluxe Collings beveled pickguard, special request (*) ADIRONDACK ten top, honey brown (light) stain on Honduran mahogany back and sides, our favorite (style 3) backstrip. NO TONGUE BRACE, 1 and 23/32" nut width, drop in saddle, an ivoroid bound fretboard with no inlay, an ivoroid bound headstock with nice Brazilian rosewood peghead overlay and pearl Collings logo, nickel Waverly tuners with ivoroid knobs. ETA: early August 2005. Collings is ahead of schedule on this one - Care to lay claim to this one? (10856) $4,650 The guitar arrived today and it is superb. The (*) "special request" adirondack top is a very clean, extremely close grained adirondack. It does not have the wide irregular grain or *any* of the red streaking normally associated with the Adirondack species. It has one quick wisp of bearclaw in the right lower bout and it has some great shimmer and fine silking to the grain. Cosmetically, it is one of the nicest and more unusual pieces of red spruce that we have seen from Collings this year. The kind of wood we'd expect to see them save for a Brazilian rosewood guitar. Tonally, this guitar is pure thunder and has that lingering sustain. Built in a pre-war style with no tongue brace, it is loose, loud, and warm with serious growl and rumble. Lots of bass, lots of everything. An elegant looking guitar with the generous use of ivoroid edge material. Eleveating mahogany guitars to their rightful stature, that's what we do here at Moe's. (We got a nice e-mail just the other day that said "give Moe a raise!!" Thanks Jim!) The light mahogany stain makes the style 3 backstrip jump out and the clean look of no fretboard dots, against that bound fretboard, really catches our eye. A marvelous custom guitar, suitable for framing or for the most discerning player or collector. Nothing but the best. These custom D1As never last a month and sure enough...this one flew to Japan! SOLD
Collings D1A custom (varnish) (SOLD) (NEW) The new standard for flat top steel string guitars This is one of our custom D1As (wide straight grain, minimal streaking Red spruce, lightly built, no tongue brace, lighter walnut stain on mahogany, style 3 backstrip, 1 and 23/32" nut width, highly figured Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay, pearl torch inlay in headstock, nickel Waverlies with snakewood knobs, drop in saddle) with the new Collings VARNISH finish. Trust us. You need to get you one of these. Ordered Jan, 2006 Just arrived (10/20). Oh Mama!! Be still my heart! This is the one. You know, we sell a bunch of D1As, custom and otherwise, and we know a great one when we hear one. This is, hands down, the guitar I want to be buried with. Unfortunately, I am shipping it to Boulder, to the luckiest man in Colorado. Seriously folks, a varnish D1A is one of those items that defies description. Now, the varnish is a thinner finish and if you are one of those folks (you know who you are) who looks at these amazing Collings guitars with a magnifying glass for the slightest variation or "flaw", if you are looking for polished glass and impossibly perfect and level finish thickness, the varnish finish is not for you. Real humans apply this stuff and it's quite organic and labor intensive. Having said that, Collings is known to exceed human standards and as varnish finishes go, we've not seen one finer. That Collings guy, he doesn't settle, and either should you. Tone? This thing makes grown men cry. Stop yer wining. Does the varnish make a difference? Of course it does. Is it worth it? ($1200) That's up to you. Does your playing require it? Again, that's between you and your chief financial officer. Is the varnish as resilient and protective a finish as lacquer? No, of course not. If you play outdoors in 95 degree heat, buy a laquer D1A and leave the varnish in your recording studio. Will a varnish D1A change your life? Yes, decidedly yes. SOLD
Collings D1A custom (varnish) (SOLD) (NEW) We present the new modern standard for flat top steel string guitars. This one is a custom D1A (light walnut stain on mahogany, 1 and 3/4" nut width, Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay,nickel Waverlies with ivoroid knobs) with the new Collings VARNISH finish. Sell the rest; buy the best. This one has all the tone that a flatpicking guitar can have. Loud with a thick and rich brilliance that makes you wonder where all the sound is coming from. Fat, not tubby. Brilliant but not bright. Sinister but sweet at the same time. The last mahogany dreadnought you'll ever need. Grow old with this one. Be sure check the soft hand rubbed varnish luster over the Collings logo, but don't obsess about that for this guitar is all about *sound* - and it should be filling your music room with that as soon as we can convince Moe to let it go. $5,500 - Sorry, didn't last the first week. (RM) SOLD
Collings D1A Custom SOLD (USED) Exc. A fairly fancy six year old mahogany and Adirondack spruce custom Collings dreadnought with 1 and 11/16" nut width neck. In excellent condition with magnificent abalone torch inlay on headstock, tortoise binding on fretboard, as well as body and headstock, with additional CW style cross-grained purfling line on the neck and headstock. No fretboard inlay, standard bridge with drop-in saddle. Nickel Waverlies, a bold vintage style Greven Tor-tis pickguard, and gold strap button installed. A VERY special guitar. Fresh Collings setup with GHS True Medium strings (nice!) Nice growling tone - serious flatpicker. LOUD! The perfect Honduran mahogany twin to this Indian rosewood one as the pics show... SOLD (PC) SOLD
Collings D1A Custom