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Bourgeois	O custom	This pretty little thing followed us home from the 2010 NAMM Show (NEW) As guitars go, we've never seen a prettier guitar. If a picture is worth a thousand words, hopefully the pics will do the talking and we can just shut up. Wouldn't that be a refreshing change? Seriously, Dana Bourgeois has tossed his hat into the "O" ring and his "O" is as good as it gets. Oh Brother! Lots of warm feisty bottom in this particular Adirondack topped O and that is not something that can be said about all O's. O's are generally light in the loafers when it comes to the low frequencies. This O has got it. It's our first O from Dana, but it will not be our last. It's a dandy. DB Signature purfling, short scale, 1 and 3/4" nut width, bone pins, koa binding, snakewood knobs, pyramid bridge.	$4,795
Bourgeois	V2MD Very Vintage Mahogany D Hide Glue Custom VARNISH	(ON ORDER) OK, We've been having so much fun with these custom hide glue Country Boys. This will be a fifth variation on the theme: This wil be one of the new VVMD "Very Vintage Mahogany Dreadnought" (as introduced by Dana Bourgeois at the 2008 NAMM Show) that will have 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2.2" saddle spacing, spruce head and end blocks to reduce weight, ebony body binding, ebony butt wedge, mammoth ivory nut, HIDE GLUE construction...etc.) This one will be custom for us and will feature master grade Adirondack top, Dana's "presentation" inlay on the headstock - ( Bourgeois logo, no fretboard dots, black ebony pins and black ebony strap button) and VARNISH finish!	$6,395
Bourgeois	Very Vintage Mahogany D Adirondack Hide Glue Thin finish SUNBURST	(ON ORDER) This one will be our first SUNBURST VVMD. Here's our sixth custom variation on the theme: This wil be one of the new Very Vintage Mahogany D (as introduced by Dana Bourgeois at the 2008 NAMM Show)but will have the standard 1 and 23/32" nut width, 2.2" saddle spacing, spruce end block, ebony body binding, ebony butt wedge, mammoth ivory nut, HIDE GLUE construction...etc.) This one will also feature a medium-dark sunburst and Dana's new "thin" poly finish.This guitar will have a list price of $4,950 and we expect it to be fabulous.	$4,950
Recent Arrivals - Collings Guitars
Collings	16" Archtop Sunburst	Just arrived - Christmas Eve (NEW) Collings 16" archtop - # 55. It's always a Yippie-Ti-Yi-Yo Christmas when Santa rides in swinging a new Collings archtop. God bless us, every one! (SOLD)	SOLD
Collings	C-10 Maple Art Deco	Just arrived - 2010 NAMM Show guitar (NEW) You know how we venerate the C-10 model here. Here is one of a kind - from the playful mind and capable hands of Bill Collings. When we had Bill here this past Summer, we had all just returned from the Summer NAMM Show with the insanely cool maple Art Deco Collings ukulele. I asked Bill if he would consider building a matching C-10 guitar for us, and he loved the idea. Fast forward six months - this is that guitar, and it is a doozie. Maple C-10, Sitka top, black binding, Art Deco headstock and bridge, 1 and 11/16" nut, black bound soundhole, Peghead brand (mechanical geared) tuners that give the guitar a sort of Flamenco flair. It is the lightest Collings maple guitar we have ever handled, at just under 3.5 pounds. This guitar sings. It is warm. It is sweet and unique. Not sure if Bill plans to make it a production model. We think it sounds best played fingerstyle, but it can be flatpicked quite nicely and it comes with a (black) C10 pickguard, just in case. At this time, the guitar is one of a kind and mighty special. Note: The C-10 is moving to Boulder... SOLD (BD)	SOLD
Collings	SJMhGssSB cut Custom	Just arrived - and DROP DEAD gorgeous (NEW) The most oft over-looked model in the Collings line, the dynamic Collings SJ. Usually seen as a maple guitar, the SJ is a model that lends itself to creative license, which we exercised abundantly when we spec'd this magnificent guitar: highly figured mahogany, full body sunburst, BROKEN GLASS inlay, 1 and 3/4" nut width, SHORT SCALE, cutaway, GERMAN spruce top, style 3 backstrip, nickel Waverly tuners with ebony knobs. Ooh la la. The sound is positively delicious and the look is intoxicating. $7,650	SOLD
Collings	SoCo Deluxe Flame Dark Orange TV Jones	Just Arrived The SoCo Deluxe is our best selling Collings electric, for good reason. For other good reasons, this one is particularly appealing. Is it the flame dark orange color? Is it the TV Jones pickups with CNC carved ivoroid pup rings? Dunno. Just know what we like, and we REALLY like this guitar. The TV Jones pickups transform the SoCo from a refined Blues/Jazz to a Rockin' Blues Country-Surf guitar. This guitar is just the thing for playing Cannonball Rag! We have a matching dark orange 290 with Bigsby tremelo also on order, just for fun. Twwwannnnggg! Note: The SoCo is SOLD is Cannonballing its way to York Beach, Maine! (MM)	SOLD
Collings	I-35 Mermaid Blue Custom	In transit A custom I-35 with premium quilt top and custom Mermaid Blue finish. Parallelogram inlay.	RESERVED
Collings	D2H-G NAMM	Just arrived - 2010 NAMM guitar (NEW) As good as the standard D2H is (and it *is*) we find that our favorite way to go to the races with a D2H is to top it with beautiful German spruce, leave out the tongue brace, then brace it with the stiffer Adirondack spruce bracing. This top secret combination of components makes for a D2H that is greater than the sum of its parts. Maximum sustain and clarity with volume that makes banjo players envious. Less stiff than a D2H-A, the D2HG with Adi bracing seems to be the perfect beast. This one was built for the 2010 NAMM Show then shipped here to our humble lumber emporium. East Indian Rosewood, German Spruce with aging toner, 1 and 3/4" nut width and a great looking Brazilian rosewood headstock veneer. Seriously, get out of the way when this guitar starts going.	List Price: $4,375
Our Price: $3,937
Collings	D2H-G	Just arrived (NEW) As good as the standard D2H is (and it *is*) we find that a German spruce top adds just the right amount of sustain and fullness to an already great guitar. If your style requires an Indian rosewood guitar that has fat singing trebles, maximum sustain, extreme clarity and focus and the ability to handle open tunings, we think a German spruce soundboard is the key. This guitar also has the highly desirable 1 and 3/4" nut width.	List Price: $4,275
Our Price: $3,847
Collings	D41 MR A NAMM	Coming soon - 2010 NAMM guitar (NEW) Built for display at the 2010 NAMM Show, the fabulous Collings D41 in fine Madagascar Rosewood and Adirondack spruce. Flowerpot inlay on headstock, 1 and 3/4" nut width, 42 style snowflake inlay on fretboard, abalone rosette and purfling, Brazilian headstock veneer, style three backstrip.	INQUIRE
Collings	OOO Mahogany Top Custom	Just arrived (NEW) You know how we love our Hog-tops here at Moe's House of Mahogany. Moe runs a pretty mean Hog Shop here, but this one has us in Hog Heaven. Just when we think we've seen it all, Moe orders up a custom OOO in walnut-stained mahogany with SOLID headstock, 1 and 3/4" nut width and oh so subtle ROPE purfling. Oh that rascal Moe - he knows his wood.	List Price: $4,550
Our Price: $4,095
Collings	OM1ss Sunburst	Just Arrived (NEW) Just in time to help you get through this long cold Winter, a nice light Collings OM1 in SHORT SCALE with sunburst. 1 and 3/4" nut width, of course. Pretty. Sounds sweet. Plays like butter.	List Price: $4,475
Our Price: $4,027
Collings	OM1A VARNISH	Just Arrived (NEW) Just in time for your year-end bonus check (remember those?), a perfect Collings OM1A in VARNISH. 1 and 3/4" nut width, light. Sounds incredible. Gone!	SOLD
Collings	CJ MhMhSB custom Hog Top	Just arrived (NEW) The return of the "Mahoginators". A model we like to call "the Milkshake", help us welcome a new batch (three guitars) of mahogany-topped CJ guitars, this one in full body sunburst, STANDARD SCALE, 1 and 3/4" nut width, and dressed up with full body ivoroid binding and some nice streaky ebony on the headstock. Choose your own pickguard (regular or firestripe) or go au natural!	List Price: $5,500
Our Price: $4,950
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 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		Our 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		Our Price: $5,647
Collings	CJ Mh sb mahogany Short Scale	Just arrived (NEW) It's been the year of the CJ. A lot have players have been discovering the versatility of the CJ model, both in short scale and in standard scale - for both flatpick and fingerstyle. Our custom CJ has been a very strong seller as a varnish guitar. Well varnish isn't for everyone, so we offer this very appealing package: a short scale sunburst CJ that will scare the pants of any old Gibson. We added an abalone rosette and flourish to this sunburst guitar, because it deserves it. So do you. Short scale, 1 and 3/4" nut width.	List Price: $5,475		Our Price: $4,927
Collings	OM1 Mh cut custom cutaway	Just Arrived (NEW) Here's a cool idea: Here at Moe's House of Mahogany, we feel mahogany deos everything well. It is a woody wonder. Sure we like it on backs and sides with spruce tops, who doesn't like that? But we have a particular affection for the "all-mahogany" guitar, the "Hog-Tops" as we like to call them. C10's go great that way, CJs are positively KILLER in that configuration, and of course OMs do everything well and a hog top OM is a great bluesy guitar that stays out of a singer's way, and delivers a sweet balanced warm and welcome tone. If you have three spruce topped guitars already (and who doesn't??) then trust Moe: you really should consider a Hog Top. This particular Hog Top is way cool. Take a SHORT SCALE OM-1, add a mahogany top, add a cutaway, add a pyramid bridge, add a 1 and 3/4" nut width, then add your fingers. One of our (classical) guitar teachers picked it up today and said "I did not believe a steel string guitar could sound this good". Become a believer. $4,675	SOLD
Collings	OM1 Mh	Just arrived (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! Note: We have two of these guitars in stock: one with pickguard and one without. These guitars look great and sound unbelievable.	List Price: $5,200		Our Price: $4,680
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		Our Price: $5,287
Collings	OM1A - Koa	Just arrived - (NEW) Something mighty pretty and very special. Basically an OM1A hopped up with high grade Hawaiian koa. That's an OM1 with extremely high grade exquisitely figured koa back and sides and a fabulous wide grain Adirondack top. It's got a style three back strip and tortoise bound body, neck and headstock and ebony knobs on Waverly tuners. So it resembles our fancy customs OM1As but it is koa. It is lightly built, it is fabulous looking and it has all that "dark" tonal quality where koa excels. Not quite as dry as mahogany, koa has a dark reverby sweet warmth to it, with a bit of complexity. It's a GREAT guitar and we know it will look great in your lap! C'mon by and noodle on it. Business has picked up nicely, thanks for asking. Looks like we (the collective we, I hope) may all have turned a corner. Let's stay on track.	List Price: $6,550		Our Price: $5,895
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		Our Price: $6,457
Collings	D1A VARNISH	Just arrived (NEW) Been without one of these tonemeisters for about six weeks now. 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		Our Price: $6,230
Collings	D1A custom VARNISH	Just Arrived (NEW) Thanks to our loyal customers and some dynamite new ones, we've just had the best August we've EVER had and the September orders are coming in fast and furious. I don't want to jinx anything, but I am ready to say that things are returning to normal here. Speaking of "normal", the model that keeps the bills paid here at Moe's House of Mahogany is the ever-popular Collings D1A. This one is one of our custom orders for which we requested, and received, "perfect" wide grain Adirondack spruce for the top and perfect free-of-figure mahogany for the back. To make it pre-war "ish", and CW-ish, we had them build it light and leave out the tongue brace. To dress her up, we added fretboard and peghead tortoise binding and a fancy torch on the headstock inlayed in Brazilian rosewood. We put a 1 and 23/32" nut width at the business end of this fabulous machine and we put the CW style 2 and 1/4" saddle spacing on her, just to make her go faster. We didn't put any dots on her fretboard, cause we know you don't them, but we did have the Collings logo inlaid at the twelfth fret. We figure Collings deserves credit for this guitar, and with that cool torch on the headstcock, the brand goes slightly incognito. This amazing sounding thing is a lightly built guitar, weighing just under four pounds. Oh and did I mention? The Three V's: Varnish, varnish, varnish.	List Price: $7,750		Our Price: $6,975
Collings	D1A custom VARNISH	Just Arrived (NEW) August ended and September started here with seven Collings sold in seven days. Let's keep that streak going. This gorgeous thing is another one of our custom orders for store stock. For this one we selected a set of unusually beautiful *tight* grain Adirondack spruce for the top and some very nicely figured flamed mahogany for the back. This one *does* have the standard tongue brace and is the standard build, weighing about 4.4 pounds. We've added fretboard and peghead tortoise binding and crosscut ivoroid purfling and a fancy torch on the headstock inlayed in striped ebony. We went with a 1 and 3/4" nut width on this machine with standard 2 and 3/16" saddle spacing on her, just the way you like. We didn't put any dots on the fretboard, cause we know you don't need them, but we did doll her up with the CW style pickguard. Really pretty. Sound? Vim, vigor, and volume. Think it could be the varnish?	List Price: $7,550		Our Price: $6,795
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, brilliant, cyrstal clear 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		Our Price: $4,500
Collings	D1A Sunburst	Just Arrived (NEW)Just in time for the holidays, our best selling nodel, the Collings D1A. We've had over 100 D1As now, and the sound is consistently great. It is the sound we hear in our heads when we think "guitar". This one all dressed up with sunburst finish and a CW style pickguard, 1 and 3/4" nut width, and the Style 3 backstrip. How's that sound?	List Price: $5,350
Our Price: $4,815
Collings	D1 sunburst	Just arrived (NEW) Back to basics. Similar to the D1Asb above, but this one with a Sitka spruce top - that's a Collings D1 in style one sunburst. 1 and 3/4" nut width. It is a marvelous example of what Collings can do with sharp tools and good wood. Warm, full, loud, sweet and woody. All the guitar most of us needs, really.	List Price: $4,225		Our Price: $3,735
Collings	D2Hsb	Just arrived (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 Price: $4,400		Our Price: $3,960
Collings	DS1A custom	Just arrived (NEW) OK...you know how we worship Collings D1A guitars. "The one to have when you are having only one." Well, every now and then we run into someone who wishes a D1A had a little less bite and a little more snuggle, a little less cut and a little more hug, a little less fight and a little more love. These folks tend to play with fingers as often as flatpick, and they tend to sing more often, and their need to kill banjos is less critical. For these folks we often recommend the DS1A, a first cousin to the D1A. A guitar where the neck joins the body at the twelfth fret and the bridge resides in the middle of the lower bout and drives the lower frequencies all the way to Poughkeepsie. If you have ever said a D1A is "too big, too bad, too bright, too brittle, too this too that, maybe you should meet its cousin, the DS1A. The bigger bottomed D1A. This is a custom model with a solid headstock, a style three backstrip, and a 1 and 3/4" nut width. It's good.	List Price: $5,300		Our Price: $4,770
Collings	OO2MRG MadRose German	Just arrived (NEW) Ordered last November (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.	List Price: $5,700		Our Price: $5,130
Collings	O1 Mh sb Hog Top sunburst	Just arrived (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 HOG TOP with 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) just an mind numbingly pretty guitar.	List Price: $5,150	Our Price: $4,635
Collings	O1Gsb	Just arrived (NEW) We can't get enough of these, and no stable is complete without one. The O1. An amazing small mahogany guitar with a tremendous sounding 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 sophisticated singing small guitar. Just perfect.	List Price: $4,725		Our Price: $4,252
Recent Arrivals - Collings UKES
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) The entry-level uke, the UC-1. These are plain and simple but sound like a million bucks. Bill Collings brings perfect fit and finish, perfect intonation, and soaring singing volume to the world of the uke. Join him, won't you? $1,100	$990
Collings	UC1	Just arrived (NEW) The entry-level uke, the UC-1. These are plain and simple but sound like a million bucks. This one has a beautifully figured one-piece back. Nice!	$990
Collings	UC1 koa	Just arrived (NEW) Collings entry-level uke, the UC-1. This one with the upgrade to lightly flamed Hawaiian koa. Sweet! $1,350	$1,215
Collings	UC1 koa	Just arrived (NEW) Collings entry-level uke, the UC-1. This one with the upgrade to STUNNING flamed Hawaiian koa. Sounds as good as she looks. $1,350	$1,215
Collings	UC2 Flamed mahogany	Just arrived (NEW) This is the mid-level UC-2 uke in high grade flame mahogany. A fabulous uke! $1,600 List.	$1,440
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 custom Doghair	Just Arrived (NEW) Of course. Why not? You betcha! Here at Moe's House of Mahogany, we celebrate all things mahogany. We are particularly goofy about the white pore filler on black "doghair" effect that looks so good on mahogany solid body electrics and certain small C-10, OO and OOO acoustics. So when our coolest customer (let's call him Jeff) asked if we'd order up a custom Doghair Collings ukulele for him, we said "we thought you'd never ask". He did, and we did, and here she is. The coolest little puppy in all of Uke-dom. Please don't neglect to notice the rope purfling and the pearloid headstock. Will we build more? We thought you'd never ask.	SOLD
Collings	UC2 custom Sunburst	Just Arrived (NEW) While we are on the subject of ukes, have we told you about Collings' stash of highly figured mahogany? You won't find this wood on many of their guitars, as the sets just generally aren't lkarge enough. But Oh what a uke they make. Just Look at it wouldja? Them is good wood. $1,850	SOLD
Collings	UT1 Tenor	Just Arrived (NEW) The tenor ukuleles are starting to ship. This will be a base model (all mahogany) tenor just like the UC-1 models that have been so succesful for us. Same price as the UC-1. First couple sold before they arrived - $1,100 list (our price $990) Two more arrived today. Cool ukes!	$990
Collings	UT1 tenor	Just Arrived (NEW) The tenor ukuleles are starting to ship. This will be a base model (all mahogany) tenor just like the UC-1 models that have been so succesful for us. Same price as the UC-1. Nice figured mahogany on this one. $1,100 list (our price $990 with case)	SOLD
Collings	Tenor Uke - Koa UT2-K	Just arrived - NAMM Show ukulele (NEW) Just returned from the NAMM Show in Nashville where we were lucky enough to bag this koa tenor uke. The first of the new tenor ukes from the Big Kahuna himself - Bill Collings. Look at the koa. It's positively quilted. Notice the rope purfling. It's kinda kwazy. Celebrate with us the Dancing Flea and consider the superb traditional attention to detail that Collings brings to the uke world. Just a lovely uke with some very fine figured koa. We sent photos to one of our favorite customers (aint technology grand?) and this cool uke SOLD before we even got it home. (MM)	SOLD
Collings	UC3 custom maple RED	Are we having fun yet? (NEW) If, like us, you've stood tall against all the doom and gloom of this Great Recession and discovered the Joy of Uke, perhaps you'll consider this lipstick-red flame maple Deco box that we call Ida Red? Straight from the NAMM Show, one of a kind, she is a ringer, this Miss Ida Red. With her tortoise peghead overlay, white white polka-dot-in-tortoise purfling, and red fretboard, she is TOO MUCH FUN. Her maple back and sides and spruce top make her LOUD with tremendous responsiveness and sustain. Ida Red. She will make you smile.	$3,500
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. 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. (SOLD)	SOLD
Recent Arrivals - Huss & Dalton Guitars
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. Our new favorite configuration for the OO is the all-walnut variety. We've had three of them now, and they are consistently amazing. This is # 4 for us and is the best one yet. Beautiful with a sound that will surprise you. It may become your favorite guitar.	$5,250
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 could 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	Our price: $3,735
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 speaks for itself. Classic mahogany dread.	List Price: $4,350	Our price: $3,915
Recent Arrivals - National Resophonic Guitars
National	W Series Triolian 12 fret	Just Arrived (NEW) - "W" series as in "We are WILD about the new Triolian" with thinner gauge (lighter weight) steel body, flat f-holes, arched back, "walnut" sunburst, neck joint at 12th fret. Capture the weight and feel of a 1930's Duolian or Triolian but with modern good intonation and truss rod. List Price: $2,300	$1,955
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	Just arrived (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... List price on the special edition Antique Brass ResoRocket" $ 3,985 - JUST ARRIVED. Our price: $ 3,385	$3,385
Recent Arrivals - ELECTRIC GUITARS
Collings	City Limits Jazz Tangerine Burst	Tangerine Burst! (NEW) Most of Bill Collings' guitars are modern and inspired interpretations of traditional and iconic instruments. One of Bill's more original, and equally inspired designs, is his own City Limits Jazz thinline archtop. We've had eight or nine of them now in sunburst and merlot. This tangerine burst is a new and refreshing presentation of the CL Jazz, built specifically for the 2009 NAMM Show in Nashville. It's a beauty. The name says it all, this is a warm and full sounding Jazz guitar that is very light and just a joy to play. One of life's finer things, really.	SOLD
Collings	City Limits Jazz Tangerine Burst	(ON ORDER) Just like the one above, another Collings Tangerine Burst CL Jazz. And why not?? (JC)	RESERVED
Collings	SoCo Deluxe Flame Dark Orange TV Jones	Just Arrived The SoCo Deluxe is our best selling Collings electric, for good reason. For other good reasons, this one is particularly appealing. Is it the flame dark orange color? Is it the TV Jones pickups with CNC carved ivoroid pup rings? Dunno. Just know what we like, and we REALLY like this guitar. The TV Jones pickups transform the SoCo from a refined Blues/Jazz to a Rockin' Blues Country-Surf guitar. This guitar is just the thing for playing Cannonball Rag! We have a matching dark orange 290 with Bigsby tremelo also on order, just for fun. Twwwannnnggg! The SoCo is SOLD is Cannonballing its way to York Beach, Maine! (MM)	SOLD
Collings	SoCo Deluxe Blonde	Just arrived The Collings "SoCo" is now 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 is a blonde SoCo with high-premium quilt top selected by us while it was still a slab, (hey! watch who you are calling a "slab!") with perfectly pure parallelogram inlay, highly figured Brazilian rosewood fretboard and headstock overlay, and the large "flared" peghead. The list price is $6,700. Fresh pics! Call now.	List Price: $6,700	Our Price: $6,030
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	Our Price: $2,745
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 flameed top and Cherry sunburst finish.	List Price: $3,500	Our Price: $3,150
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	Our Price: $4,725
Collings	SoCo Deluxe Root Beer flame	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. 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 flared SoCo headstock, dazzling woods, parallelogram inlay and black/white top purfling. The Rootbeer is a difficult color to photograph. It's dark but the flame does show through. If we get a decent warm day, I'll get some pics with natural lighting and you will see. Skip the kool-aid, enjoy the Root Beer.	List Price: $6,500	Our Price: $5,850
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	Our Price: $5,715
Collings	I-35 Deluxe Premium Quilt Amber burst	Just arrived (NEW) and just the way we like 'em. Another exceptional *premium quilt* I-35 Deluxe, this one in Amber sunburst 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 Price: $6,350	Our Price: $5,715
Collings	I-35 Mermaid Blue Custom	In transit A custom I-35 with premium quilt top and custom Mermaid Blue finish. Parallelogram inlay.	RESERVED
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.	List Price: $1,400	Our Price: $1,250
Recent Arrivals - USED GUITARS
Beard	Benedetto Manhattan 7 - String	(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.	$13,750
Bourgeois	Brazilian Vintage D	Just arrived (USED) This is a great used Vintage D from Dana Bourgeois. Dana built this guitar with architecture salvaged old Brazilian for the IBMA Show in 2007. It is a particularly nice sounding Vintage D with great overtone and ringing harmonics. The box really rings like that proverbial bell. It is in like-new condidition as far as we can see, with just one tiny ding on the side. Really a beautiful guitar. Includes the deluxe dual-arch Bourgeois case.	$5,700
Bourgeois	Claro Walnut JOMC	Just arrived (USED) Another beautiful custom Bourgeois guitar. This one a JOMC model (jumbo OM size) in gorgeous Claro walnut with Engelmann spruce top. The Engelmann top mixes with the walnut to yiled a warm and complex tone - strong fingerstyle guitar and very good strummer. Get out of your rosewood rut with walnut! It is in very close to mint condition, sounds great, and is priced to sell quickly at $2,750. A beauty. ON CONSIGNMENT	$2,750
Bourgeois	Flamed mahogany OM	Just arrived (USED) Dana Bourgeois built this great custom Orchestra model for the 2005 NAMM Show, and the owner confesses that he was a bit nervous about playing it for fear that he would scratch it. So his fear is your ticket to a GREAT guitar at a great price. Insanely fine flamed great sounding mahogany, very dense, with lovely Adirondack spruce, rosewood body bindings, gold hardware, Brazilian headstock veneer, and 1 and 3/4" nut width. Priced to sell quickly at $3,850. Beautiful! ON CONSIGNMENT	$3,850
Bourgeois	Maple DB Jumbo	(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 over $6,500. We believe it is one-of-a-kind in terms of full body sunburst from Dana. t 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	JOMC Madagascar Rosewood	(USED) 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. New, 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.We sold this guitar new a few years ago and it is back in *excellent* condition on consignment for $1000 less than the "new" price. Great guitar, GREAT LOW price. ON CONSIGNMENT	$3,200
Collings	OM2H KOA	Just arrived (USED) A TWELVE year old (09/98) Collings OM2H in highly flamed Hawaiian KOA. The nut width is 1 and 3/4". The Waverly tuners are gold. The Koa is highly flamed and the Sitka top has darkend nicely. The sound is as you would imagine, warm and full with lots of dark reverby "there" there. Likes to be flatpicked, but is a marvelous fingerstyle guitar also.....There is one lonely ding on the top (shown in the photos). If you like Koa, you'll love this guitar. Even if you don't like koa, you'd probably still love this guitar. ON CONSIGNMENT	$3,750
Collings	0001-G	Just arrived (USED) From another thoughtful and trusted customer, this fine Collings OOO. We've sold this good customer a few mighty fine guitars, and we've taken a few in trade from him. He knows his guitars and his trades and consignments are always a worthy adventure. This Collings OOO is graced with some fine figured mahogany and beautiful tight grain German spruce, 1 and 13/16" nut width, no pickguard, pyramid bridge, 2 and 5/16" saddle spacing, and slotted headstock. That is a wood combination that we know well and we are delighted that it will be here ON CONSIGNMENT. Fresh pics. Sweet sounding guitar! It is warm with sophisticated overtone, soft but never mushy, and has impressive sustain. It is a fingerstyle guitar that is equally suited for standard tuning or open tuning, but it is a killer drop D or open tuning six string.	$3,250
Collings	D1A custom	Just arrived (USED) One of our custom D1As has come back home. This has been the regular take no prisoners guitar of one our better customers. He's replaced it with an identical D1A-Varnish (no surprise there) and has now ordered a custom MF5-Varnish Collings mandolin, so the original D1A must go on the block. Its serial number, 10245, indicates we sold it new way back in ought-four (2004) - so six years of good picking has turned this into one exceptionally ferocious D1A. It has a 1 and 3/4" nut width, torch on the headstock, CW pickguard, long saddle, NO tongue brace (that's what SHE said) and the ability to rip the face off a banjo. ON CONSIGNMENT - Some fret wear showing on the first three frets, ebony strap button installed and a few good dings! Note: At $4,250, includes a Calton case. At $3,750, includes a Collings case.	$3,750
Collings	CJ Mh A sb 1997	Just arrived (USED) Always nice to run into one of these old hosses. Here's a perfectly preserved and well kept "CJ" from 1997. A twelve year old workhorse built during the Clinton administration and just rounding the first lap of what will be a long and glorious ride. The label reads simply "CJ" (as Collings used to do) but this guitar is more specifically a CJMhAsb as is evidenced by the pics and verified by Collings. So, 12 years of fun: Adirondack top, ivoroid binding on body, neck, and peghead, 1 and 3/4" nut width, dark Collings sunburst. It's got some very pretty mahogany that has to be seen close up to be appreciated. The guitar had a pickup at one time which has been removed and the end pin jack has been replaced with an end pin plug (shown in pics). It is a splendid sounding CJ, currently strung with light gauge strings and plays like butter. It's got one or two tiny dings and a mark or two here and there. Not pristine, but precious. Original Collings case, etc. Very Good thirteen year old Collings guitar! ON CONSIGNMENT	$4,100
Collings	O2HBaaA Brazilian Rosewood	Just arrived (USED) Traded here on a custom Collings City Limits electric. This magnificent sounding O body Collings in nice (AA grade) Brazilian Rosewood with a fine Adirondack spruce top. A VERY rich sounding small guitar. Perhaps the ulimate "O"?	$5,750
Collings	O2MRG MadRose German	Just arrived (USED) Traded back here on a custom Collings I-35 electric. This fine sounding O body Collings in Madagascar Rosewood with an exquisite German spruce top. We sold this new last year. When we ordered it, 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. Very punchy, can be strummed aggressively. The ultimate couch guitar. Perhaps a Super Bowl Guitar?	$4,250
Collings	O1A with K & K	Just arrived (USED) A great sounding Collings O1 with very nicely figured mahogany back and sides and a great looking Adirondack spruce top. Equipped with a K&K (passive) pickup, this small guitar can do it all. Flatpick, fingerpick, strum. Great porch guitar, great office guitar, great travel guitar, great gigging guitar. Just a great guitar.	$3,450
Collings	SJ 42 BaaaA	Just arrived (USED) A ten 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 1999. 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	$9,750
Collings	SJ Mh A Mahogany Adirondack	Just arrived (USED) As "used" guitars go, this is about as clean as they come. We hesitate to use the word "mint", but this one is very close. It is very rare to find a used guitar in this condition. Any marks on the photos are reflections. This machine is CLEAN! It is rare to find a mahogany SJ, and this one has great looking Adirondack spruce on the top, as God intended. And 1 3/4" nut width, as He prefers. The guitar really sounds fantastic. The previous owner must have played it with gloves on, as it has a well developed sounnd with nary a hint of wear. A little brighter and lighter in the bass than a D1A, but a GREAT versatile flatpicker and fingerstyle guitar. If you already have a dreadnought you love, this would be a fine companion. If you live to play, this could be your raison d'etre. ON CONSIGNMENT	$4,250
Collings	SJ	(USED) - Another great sounding Collings small jumbo (flame maple neck, back and sides/sitka spruce top, gold hardware) - 1 and 11/16" nut width. Natural finish - blond. A beautiful guitar - sold here new about three years ago. Back on consignment in "nearly new" excellent plus condition.	$3,250
Collings	SJ Rosewood Cedar	(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	I-35 TSB	(USED) Coming in on trade, a "used" but very clean standard I-35 in tobacco sunburst. Nice price on a great guitar - Brazilian rosewood fretboard.	SOLD
Collings	290 Black	Just Arrived (USED)Another rocking good 290 in basic black with pearloid peghead overlay and pickguard and black pearl tuner knobs, all with minimal wear. None, really. Want a like-new Collings 290 for the holidays at a steal of a price? Call now.	$1,850
Flammang	D-30 black top	Just arrived (USED) (EXC. +) Another great consignment from a very 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" at the 12th fret. Unusual, at least for us, to think of a dreadnought as a "fingerstyle" guitar as the 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 "hairy-armed bluegrass" guitar but it certainly excels at complex 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 Adirondack 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. A great singer-songwriter guitar with a certain Johnny Cash vibe. Hey Porter! $3,250 ON CONSIGNMENT.	$3,250
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. Very nice sounding Gibson. On consignment.	$2,250
Goodall	TMhB Traditional Quilted Mahogany Baritone	(NEW) (Shopworn) 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
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. On consignment.	$5,750
Martin	OO-18V	Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. A nice little 2005 OO18-V. Traded here on a Collings ukulele, this fine small guitar is the perfect thing for just sittin around and picking. Good strummer, good little flatpicker, nice little blues guitar. What's not to like?	$1,675
Martin	D-42-K Koa	Just arrived (Used) Exc.- condition. Nice D42 in koa. Very nice tone, with nicely figured woods. SN 644445 dates it to 1998. It is # 44 of 150 of the limited series.	$2,850
Martin	D28 GE Brazilian Rosewood (2003)	Just arrived (Used) Exc. condition. Martin introduced the D28GE series in 1999. It was the last production model from Martin to feature Brazilian rosewood. This particular guitar, # 454 of the series, was built in 2003. It features extremely fine straight grained quarterswan Brazilian rosewood and equally impressive Adirondack spruce. The sound is classic Martin D28 with warm bass, scooped mids, and great ka-chang. Really a beautiful example, featuring Waverly tuners, fossil ivory nut, saddle, and bridge pins - the factory "pepperoni" pick guard has been replaced with a nice Greven 40's style pick guard (seen in photos). The 2003 retail price (model is discontinued, Martin has no more Brazilian rosewood) was $15,000. This is an EXCEPTIONAL example and we think priced appropriately at $9,500. The guitar stands toe to toe with some of the top guitars here in the shop: Tony Rice Pro, H&D TDR, Bourgeois, etc. A very fine Martin guitar in very fine condition - one medium-deep scratch on the top - otherwise basically new appearance. If you want the classic Martin tone in a modern more reliable guitar - this is the guitar for you.	$9,500
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	(Used) Exc.+ condition. Basically new. Coming in on consignment - mahogany dreadnought. A VERY 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.On consignment.	$3,250
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 well built Brazilian rosewood guitar, wouldn't you say?	$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.	$2,500
Santa Cruz	DPW	Just arrived (USED) (EXC.) The Santa Cruz model D/PW. Their "pre-war" style dreadnought in East Indian rosewood back and sides and sitka spruce top with open back SC tuners. Excellent condition, real nice sound, plays great. A real good strumming or bluegrass rhythm guitar. 1 and 11/16" nut. Includes original case. Clean!	$2,500
Santa Cruz	Tony Rice Pro	Just Arrived (USED) (EXC. condition ) More Great Stuff! Coming in on trade, the ever-popular "Tony Pro". In Bluegrass circles, these guitars are held in the highest regard. Tony Rice re-defined modern Bluegrass flatpicking and this guitar is built to his specs: Very well quartered (STRAIGHT GRAIN) Brazilian rosewood and fine European spruce top with a hint of bearclaw. The remaining specs (slightly shorter scale, sharp "V" neck, enlarged soundhole, etc.) are typical of the model. The Brazilian rosewood and German spruce for this guitar were originally sourced by Steve Swan. This TR is slightly heavier than the average SC build, and the guitar has a very full voice with plenty of volume. As TR Pros go, one of the loudest and most percussive we have heard. A VERY, VERY, VERY fine Bluegrass guitar. (BB)	ON HOLD
Recent Arrivals - BANJOS
Chuck Lee Banjo Company	Cottonwood Original 12" custom	Just arrived (NEW) Dobson-style tone ring , curly (and we mean "curly") 12" two-ply rim 3/8" thick, 25.5" scale, double action truss rod, 1-5/16" scalloped bone nut, ebony fingerboard and peghead overlay with traditional young woman in the moonshadow inlay, offset abalone dot fret markers, fretboard scalloped beginning after 17th fret, Waverly geared tuning pegs, dots, No Knot tailpiece, and a Renaissance head. Chuck found and reserved for us some of the greatest select upgraded CURLY (did we say "curly"?) maple for this banjo. You just gotta see it to believe it. This thing is like Tony the Tiger. Fries? Make mine curly, thank you. Thanks to Chuck for this amazing banjo. What great mellow and rounded tone. A shop favorite, for sure. List Price $3,397	$3,049
Chuck Lee Banjo Company	Chalk Mountain Vintage 11	Just arrived (NEW) Another beauty - this one a maple Chalk Mountain model with that sweet earthy tone and abundant presence with nice thwack and pop. Optional Extra curly maple neck, Peghead tuners, Nice! List price as configured, with case: $3,325	$2,990
OME	Bright Angel - open back Blue-Purple Shaded	Just Arrived and way cool (NEW) 11" traditional open back with Silverspun brass tone ring in OME's Blue-Purple shaded finish. Another spectacular looking banjo, the Bright Angel is our favorite model, with that musical ring and sparkle that is different from everyting else in the shop. 11" Silver Spun tone ring. CHROME plated hardware. Just a magnificent banjo!! List price: $4,050	SOLD
OME	Bright Angel - Bluegrass Blue	Just Arrived (NEW) Similar to the open back blue Bright Angel above, this study in banjo-perfection is a bluegrass-ready resonator version of the OME Bright Angel 5-string banjo. Nickel hardware, Blue for Bluegrass....	SOLD
OME	Bright Angel - Bluegrass Blue	Just arrived (NEW) Always one of our favorite models - the blue Bright Angel, a study in banjo-perfection is a bluegrass-ready resonator version of the OME Bright Angel 5-string banjo. Nickel hardware, Blue for Bluegrass....list price $4,950 - This model has become our FAVORITE Bluegrass banjo - call us unconventional - but this thing puts the Blue in Bluegrass.	$4,450
OME	Celtic Star - open back Gold plated	Just arrived - and positvely magnificent! (NEW) 11" traditional open back with clawgrass tone ring and OME's beautiful shaded burnt sienna finish. This is one of OME's 50th Anniversary editions, and THIS is the prototype. A spectacular looking banjo with a mix of Celtic themed inlay and a loud musical ring and sparkle that inspires....list price $4,250 - A thing of beauty that should be yours....	$3,850
OME	Trilogy - open back	Just arrived - and positvely magnificent! (NEW) 11" traditional open back with silver spun tone ring, OME's amber suburst finish, and Victorian headstock. This is one of OME's 50th Anniversary editions, and THIS is the prototype. A spectacular looking banjo with a Wizardy wonder themed inlay and a loud musical ring and sparkle that inspires....list price $3,250 - with deluxe hard shell case.	$2,950

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