Boutique Acoustic Flattop Guitars

Kathy Wingert has a variety of 8 acoustic guitar models from Parlor models with an 18 3/8" body length to the Model F baritone guitars with a 20 3/16" body length. Each Kathy Wingert acoustic guitar is built with a spruce top, mahogany or cedar neck laminated with fine veneers for rigidity. Hardwood or graphite reinforcements in addition to a double-acting truss rod are also used for additional stiffness and adjustability. 

James Goodall offers many acoustic guitar models to choose from, including parlor, grand concert, concert jumbo, standard, jumbo, aloha, pacific, royal hawaiian, baritone, dreadnaught, long dreadnaught, OOO, and a crossover model. Many different tonewoods are available for all acoustic guitars as well. Other options include 12 string, left handed, neck widths, cutaway, inlays, tuners, etc.

Ervin Somogyi offers five acoustic steel string guitar models; dreadnought, Mod-D, jumbo, OM or 000 and OO models as well as classical and Flamenco style guitars. Options offered including a wide range of custom detailing such as tapered bodies, butt inlays, fingerboard extensions and more. 

James Olson hand crafts acoustic guitars in four body styles; the Jumbo, Dreadnought, SJ and Parlor as well as a 12 string model. Standard guitar features include Ebony bridge, fingerboard and headstock, and choice of Abalone or wooden purflings. Acoustic guitar options include custom inlays, carved heels and headstock inlays. 

Apers Guitars is a custom acoustic guitar maker, specializing in contemporary, dreadnought and finger style guitars. Tone woods offered include a variety of domestic and exotic hardwoods.

Kevin Ryan Guitars offers custom acoustic guitar models including the Abbey Grand Parlor, Mission Grand Concert, Nightingale Grand Soloist, and the Kevin Ryan Signature guitar. 12 string models are available by request. Kevin Ryan's Cathedral, the largest acoustic guitar model available, reinvents the Jumbo as we know it. With an expansive bass response, the Cathedral provides bright and ringing high end. The optional bevel and the avant-garde placement of the high waist allow for the large body with a soundboard voiced for focus and clarity. 

Acoustic guitar models include the contemporary fingerstyle designed OM, a fan fret (longer scale for the bass strings, shorter for the high end), a Grand Concert and a full size Grand Auditorium (excellent for flat-picking). Every acoustic guitar model can be customized by varying the scale length, neck profile, body depth, woods etc. Bashkin Guitars offers options that include cutaways, french polish and side ports. 

Linda Manzer hand selects each piece of spruce, cedar, rosewood, maple, ebony and mahogany to create the structural harmony and specific tonal qualities of a one-of-a-kind acoustic guitar. Linda's most popular acoustic guitar, The Manzer has been described as "a superb sounding and versatile guitar, combining volume and definition with durability" and features Indian Rosewood back and sides, Ebony bridge, an Abalone rosette and Sitka Spruce struts. Other guitars offered include a baritone model, a Jumbo and a 12-string model. All models can be made with custom inlays.

Kim Walker offers a variety of handmade archtop & flat-top guitars. The primary archtop model is the Excel, a prewar style archtop featuring ebony inlays on the peghead and fretboard. Flat-top acoustic guitar models include 0, 00, 000-12 (a 12 fret guitar), OM, SJ, and both 16" & 17" Jumbos. All flat-top acoustic guitars are available with either classic or traditional shaped headstocks. 

Another limited production, one-man shop offering a variety of acoustic guitar models, including an 00 model and guitar models R & BK. All guitars are constructed with Indian Rosewood and German Spruce tops. Jeff Traugott also offers the Model RE, an acoustic electric guitar with available cutaway. 

Small one man shop specializing in acoustic guitars made from Malaysian exotic woods. Designs include acoustic guitar models such as the OM Model (Figured Redwood top, Malaysian Blackwood back and sides) and the JJ Model (quilted spruce top, Malaysian Blackwood back and sides, optional cutout). Yong also designs custom electric guitars, as well as 4, 5 & 6 string electric bass guitars.

Hiro Ebata spent several years in the shop of Ervin Somogyi at the same time as Michi Matsuda and Mario Beauregard. Acoustic guitar models offered include his E1, Style D, Style OM, and Style J. Hiro also offers a classical guitar. The E1 has a dreadnaught type sound but is designed for fingerstyle guitar. The Style D is a dread with the classic wide and dynamic sound. The Ebata OM has a "less deep" body then a dreadnaught but produces a clear and well balanced sound. Hiro's Style J is a jumbo size acoustic guitar with a deep, clear and responsive bass.

John Mayes specializes in smaller guitars and ukuleles and builds just two models of acoustic guitars, the Canzonet Grand Parlor and the Crooner Grand Concert. The small Canzonet provides tones that rival larger guitars and features a 13 fret neck and small body making it ideal for recording and composing. The larger model, the Crooner, features a longer 14 fret neck and graceful rounded profile, producing deeper, smoother tones. 

Mcilroy acoustic guitar models include Dreadnaught, Jumbo, Small Jumbo and Classical. All soundboards used on Mcilroy guitars come from split logs, as opposed to sawed soundboards, for better tone. Sitka Spruce tops are used for all acoustic guitars. Tonewoods offered include Mahogany, Walnut, Indian Rosewood and Maple.

Circa Guitars is operated by luthier John Slobod. John offers four acoustic guitar models;, an OM, a dreadnaught, a OO 12 fret, and a 7/8ths dread. The Circa OM is based on the 1930 style OM's with Red spruce or Alpine spruce tops. The Circa D acoustic guitar combines the sweetness of a 1934 D-28 with the "cannon" power of a 1950 D-18. John's OO 12 fret is a classic pre-war fingerstyle guitar. His 7/8's Dread is designed for players who want a dreadnaught sound in a more comfortable size.

Mario Beauregard builds acoustic guitars by hand.  Guitar offerings include an"OM" deeper bodied orchestra model (25" scale), a Mod-D dreadnought with rounder shoulders and higher waist for playing comfort, and an SJ smaller jumbo with tighter bass response. Backs of Mario's acoustic guitars are either Brazilian or East Indian Rosewood, or Quilted Mahogany.

Beneteau Guitars acoustic models include a Nick Lucas style, a "0" 12 fret parlor, a "00" 12 fret, a "000" 12 fret, an OM, the versatile Concert Standard (12 or 14 fret), a Mini Jumbo, an "M" (a large OM), a Super Jumbo and a Baritone guitar. The Choice Wife (Clive Carroll) playing a Beneteau

Fabrizio Alberico builds fine acoustic guitars that identify with the Arts & Crafts design movement of the early 1900's. The design of the his steel-string guitar headstock evolved from a concern for proper orientation of the posts to allow the strings to remain as parallel as possible from end to end. The veneer on the back of the guitar's headstock is aesthetic and provides additional strength to this normally weak area. The double veneer also reduces the possibility of the headstock breaking off at the nut as a result of an impact. For more information on Alberico acoustic guitarrs, inclucding pricing please click on the link .

Ken Franklin builds sculpted braces and graduated top thicknesses that encourage the notes to ring from anywhere on the fretboard. Ken builds many different size acoustic guitars, including a parlor, a classical, his "Firecat" made of Tiger Myrtle from Astralia, fingerstyle instruments, and others. Exotic woods like Curly Macassar Ebony and Madagascar Rosewood are used. These are beautiful acoustic guitars.

Acoustic guitar models include the smaller SJ, the Jumbo, the Baritone (28" scale length for drop tunings) and the Classical (also available as a flamenco model). 12 fret models are also available. Acoustic guitar base models have Sitka, Englemann or Western Red Cedar tops and Indian Rosewood, Bubinga or Mahogany tonewoods. Dovetail five piece necks and Gotoh 510 or Schaller tuners are available for all acoustic guitars. All inlay work is done in-house. Harmony Central Applegate Guitar Reviews. 

Ray Kraut builds some of the finest acoustic guitars in the world. He offers two models; an OM and a modified dreadnaught. They are primarily fingerstyle guitars but can be voiced for any style you desire. Ray offers a limitless range of options and each acoustic guitar is unique in design.

PX, CX, and JX are the three available acoustic guitar models, approximately the size of the typical parlor/00, concert, and jumbo, respectively.  With asymmetrical bodies, all acoustic guitars have a higher waist on the treble side and a lower bout that's wider on the bass side for a comfortable fit.  To contribute for tonal clarity and balance there is novel top and back bracing. Unique components for all acoustic guitars include rounded corners on the beveled asymmetrical bridge, enclosed endblock and neck joint with crescent purfling, and a rounding of the heelcap. Graceworks Music Review

Acoustic guitar models include a Standard size (OM with classical lines), a OO, an OM, a dreadnaught, a jumbo, a Presentation model (has all the bells & whistles), a single cutaway and a double cutaway guitar. 12 string guitars available on request. Sitka, Engleman, Adirondack, and German Spruces are available for acoustic topwoods, as well as Figured Redwood. Back and Side options for all guitars include Brazilian and Cocobolo rosewoods, Maple, Ziricote, Blackwood, Macassar Ebony, Mahogany, Sapele, Bubuinga and Koa. There are multiple options for all guitars ranging from armrests to tuning machines to inlay work. Virtually, anything is possible.

Maingard master luthier Marc Maingard has been crafting custom acoustic guitars using fine Brazilian Rosewood for over 30 years. Guitar models include Grand Concert 14 fret, Grand Concert 12 fret, Orchestra, Dreadnought 14 fret, Dreadnought 12 fret, OOO Model, Classic Flamenco and the Classic Romantica. Acoustic guitar details can be customized, including machine heads, bridges, pins, headstocks, fingerboards and inlays.

Laskin builds steel string, classical and flamenco guitars. His steel string acoustic guitar models are available in 3 sizes; Small, Mid-size, and Semi-Jumbo. All guitar sizes are available with a choice of East Indian or Brazilian Rosewood, Koa, Maple or Ziricote back and sides; Sitka Spruce or Red Cedar soundboards and Ebony fingerboard binding. Laskin acoustic guitars are also well known for custom inlays. Standard guitar features include: Armrest bevel, sideport soundhole, abalone shell ringed rosette and Calton case. Other options for all acoustic guitars include ribrest bevel, 12 string or other multi-string models, fingerboard extensions and cutaways. Grit will even build you a Baritone guitar.