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Santa Cruz OO-42 - Brazilian Cutaway!
It just doesn’t get any better than this! This model has the exact specs of this shop's owner's #1 guitar that was modeled on a 1926 OO-42 that he had a long time ago. It is perfect for all kinds of finger-style. It plays like a dream and is very responsive to changes in touch and has rare and inspiring tone. It boasts Tier 1 Brazilian Rosewood (see photo of the set that we selected) sides and back and Adirondack Spruce top and bracing attached with hot hide glue. It has a round neck profile, 1 13/16” width nut, 2 5/15” bridge spacing and a 24.75” scale for incredible ease of playing, even on difficult arrangements. The guitar boasts “42” style body and fingerboard inlays. The Cutaway allows great fret-access on this 12-fret model and lends a modern touch to a very traditional look.Sold
Bourgeois LDBO-14 Bourgeois Blues Professional Series
All Mahogany construction, combined with selected body styles and proper voicing, provides punchy tone and warm, woody characteristics. This combination offers an ideal platform to drive your 12-bar to the next level. Ideal for players seeking a warm, clear, tone with strong fundamental, long sustain, and headroom capability never before heard on a hardwood top guitar, the Bourgeois Blues has the key ingredients to take your playing above and beyond. With a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
Bourgeois 000 Vintage - Professional Series
This beautiful tap-tuned 000 delivers real vintage tone thanks to an Aged Tone Sitka top and master grade Indian Rosewood back. This short scale guitar is easy to play and features a 1 ¾” nut width and satin finished neck. It comes with its original hard shell case.Sold
Bourgeois OMS-12/C Country Boy/Heirloom Series
This OMS is a very comfortable guitar to play and has exceptional tone thanks to it's cutaway, an Aged Tone Sinker Redwood top, Premium Mahogany back and sides and Animal Protein glue. With a large upper bout, longer air cavities and optimal bridge placement at the center of the widest part of the lower bout, he OMS combines these throwback features with a 25.5” scale neck to recreate a design still coveted by fingerstylists – and not a few flatpickers. It comes with a hard shell case.Sold
Lowden F-25 Original Series Indian Rosewood B&S Red Cedar
The Lowden F-25 has character in bags. It's Red Cedar top and East Indian Rosewood back and sides give it a rich, full-bodied, warm and powerful sound. It is very loud and more focused and is great for percussive strumming, flat picking and fingerpicking. W/ Hard Shell CaseSold
2022 Bourgeois GA/The Championship
This Championship is one killer Mahogany Dread, robust and vibrant! It features an Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top, full Aged Tone package, Sinker Mahogany back and sides and a roomy 1 13/16” nut for easy playing. Bourgeois' hand-voicing technique makes this guitar sound robust and balanced. It is in excellent and nearly unplayed conditions with on the lightest signs of use. It comes with its hard shell case.Sold
2017 Bourgeois 0 Deluxe
This top grade, comfortable sized, easy-playing smaller guitar, is in excellent condition and might be just right for you. It has a great balanced tone from a tap-tuned Adirondack Spruce top and Cocobolo with sapwood sides and back. Its short scale, 1 3/4” width nut and 2 5/16” bridge spacing give it the perfect feel. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
Bourgeois D Vintage/HS Cutaway
This Heirloom Series Vintage D is our "Doc" tribute model and features an Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top, East Indian Rosewood, Animal Protein glue and a cutaway! The 1 23/32" width nut and long scale makes the guitar play fast and responsively. Some appointments include 30' Style herringbone purfling, Abalone Slotted Squares & Diamonds fretboard inlays and Waverly Nickel Butterbean tuners. This guitar is perfectly voiced and will cure your Deep River Blues sure! It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
2018 Bourgeois Brazilian Rosewood OM Large Sound Hole LE
With a nod to Clarence White, this beautiful 2018 Bourgeois OM features stunning Brazilian Rosewood back and sides and a golden torrified Adirondack spruce top. The Large Soundhole style is a reference to Tony Rice's large soundhole guitar that he acquired from Clarence White. In keeping with this tradition, this guitar has not fretboard markers, only dots on the side of the neck and no logo on the front of the headstock. This gives the entire guitar a handsome, understated look. This guitar is in overall excellent condition and sounds rich, warm and full. Both a killer fingerstyle and flatpicking machine! Comes with its original Bourgeois Hardshell Case.Sold
Santa Cruz OM Grand Model Guitar
The custom cutaway OM Grand has everything that a regular OM has plus more volume, punch and bass...plus a cutaway! This custom OM Grand has an ideal combination of balanced tonewoods… African Blackwood back and sides paired with an Adirondack Spruce top with Advanced X Adirondack Bracing attached with hot hide glue. It is a breeze to play with 1 ¾” nut, 2 3/16” saddle spacing and a 25.375" scale length. A hard shell case is also provided.Sold
Lowden F32-IR-SS F-32C Cutaway!
This Cutaway F35 model with Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce is for the serious player who can appreciate a whole new world of subtle tone colours and dynamic range with warmth and focused projection. But because of the extra definition of the AAAA grade soundboard wood, there is extra clarity and class in the tone, focus and projection. It plays like butter and the cutaway gives you easy reach to the higher frets. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
Taylor 212ce
With a solid Sitka spruce top, layered rosewood back and sides, and an easy-playing Taylor neck, the 212ce offers an exceptionally comfortable playing experience paired with bold sound. Players will notice a clear, balanced response with an articulate character that's perfect for fingerstyle play and recording applications. A slightly narrower neck width means easy fretting, making this a great choice for players of all skill levels. Onboard ES2 electronics faithfully translate the 212ce's tone whenever you need to plug in and play. Traditional appointments and a structured gig bag for storage and transportation round out the package.Sold
Taylor 914ce Bearclaw Sitka Spruce
The pinnacle of Taylor's rosewood/spruce offerings is the 914ce, a Grand Auditorium acoustic-electric whose sonic complexity and richness are matched by its beautiful presentation and detailing. All-solid rosewood back and sides with a Sitka spruce top serve up a stunning balance of warmth and clarity, featuring low-end presence, chime-like trebles and a slightly scooped midrange that opens up space for vocals and other instruments. V-Class bracing helps push out more volume and sustain, and the built-in ebony armrest offers a more comfortable feel for your strumming/picking arm. Refined appointments include ebony binding, an Ascension inlay scheme in paua and pearl, and a paua rosette. It ships with ES2 electronics and a hardshell case.Sold
2021 Martin Custom Shop "1937" D-18 Authentic
This Martin Custom Shop was a limited run of D-18 Authentic featuring a truss rod. It features a fat rounded neck carve, a satin finish, and sounds incredible!Sold
2006 Martin OM-18V
This OM-18V has everything you could want in a flat-top guitar. It is in excellent condition and just drips classic Martin tone. Why pay extra for fake-aged wood when you can own a nice broken-in guitar that just waiting to spill out its songs. It comes with its original hard shell case.Sold
Lowden FRT-ZI-RC Richard Thompson Signature Series w AAAA Ziricote B&S Red Cedar Soundboard Size F
At Lowden, they only consider a signature model for someone who has played their guitars consistently for a long time and the legendary Richard Thompson has been playing Lowden guitars for many, many years! Richard chose this wood combination and other specifications because of the really full-bodied loud and clear response of Figured Ziricote and AAAA grade Red Cedar. The 5 piece Mahogany, Rosewood and Walnut neck feels solid and is topped off with elegant Gotoh Gold and Ebony 510 tuning gears. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
2020 Bourgeois 000 Vintage / Heirloom Series 1 13/16" nut!
Here is one great sounding and playing short scale Adi/Indian Rosewood OOO, rich, warm, loud and clear. It is excellent condition with almost no signs of play at all. The top is a beautiful selection of Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce and the back and sides are a master grade set of East Indian Rosewood. The tone-boosting Full Aged One Package also includes Aged Tone Bracing attached with animal protein glue and Aged Tone finish. The 1 13/16" nut width and 2 5/16" bridge spacing gives you lots of room to play. The Herringbone purfling and Waverly Nickel tuners add a touch of style to this instrument's classic styling. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
2021 Martin D-16E
The 16 Series Dreadnought includes a spruce gloss top for balanced tone and projection and a high-performance neck taper for ease of playability up and down the fretboard. The D-16E comes equipped with Fishman® Matrix VT Enhance NT2 electronics. It is in excellent condition and comes with a hard shell case.Sold
Santa Cruz OO Eric Skye specs w/ Cutaway
This Eric Skye spec'd OO model is the perfect fingerpicking guitar with a 1 13/16” width nut, 24.9” scale length and 2 1/4” string spacing. The tone is hard to beat thanks to an Adirondack Spruce top, Adi bracing attached with hot hide glue and a gorgeous set of Cocobolo back and sides. The cutaway lends easy access to upper frets to let you enjoy performing your full repertoire with ease!Sold
Taylor 414ce-R LTD
The tonewood pairing of Indian rosewood with Sitka spruce in our versatile Grand Auditorium body shape is always a hit, and with the new 414ce-R LTD, players can enjoy the sonic benefits of that configuration with a beautifully elevated aesthetic character befitting the limited-edition label. The rosewood/spruce combination yields a rich, full-spectrum tone profile with warm lows, pristine trebles and a slightly scooped midrange, with our V-Class bracing inside to improve the volume, sustain and overall harmony across the guitar’s entire register. This model earns its limited-edition title with a gorgeous, intricate Lily and Vine fretboard inlay design in stunning mother-of-pearl that has only rarely appeared in select custom guitars. Other aesthetic appointments include white binding with a matching three-ring rosette, nickel tuners, a faux tortoiseshell pickguard, full-body gloss finish, and a tobacco shaded edgeburst color treatment for the top.Sold
2019 Lowden S50 BO/LZ Bog Oak/Lutz
The 50 series can be described as the Lowden Custom Shop. The woods that are used are Master Grade tone woods; the best of the best tone woods available anywhere chosen for their exceptional tonal and visual properties. Enjoy the warmth and sensitivity of this S size enhanced with Lutz Spruce and Master Grade Bog Oak and enjoy the additional comfort of a luxurious bevel. This beautiful sounding guitar is in excellent condition and comes with a deluxe hard shell case.Sold
2023 Martin 000-28EC
Martin based this model on Eric Clapton’s guitar of choice for his iconic MTV Unplugged performance. Constructed from East Indian rosewood, the visually stunning 000-28EC produces a well-balanced tone. This one-owner guitar is in excellent condition and comes with its original hard shell case in excellent condition too.
Acoustic Guitars for Sale at Northern Lights Music - Best Quality Brands
Discover top-notch boutique acoustic guitars at Northern Lights Music, featuring sought-after brands such as Santa Cruz Guitars, Bourgeois Guitars, and Collings Guitars. Whether you're searching for a brilliant Brazilian OM or a warm mahogany dreadnought, we have the perfect guitar for you. Can't find what you're looking for in our inventory? Our featured brands are custom shops that can build a guitar to match your imagination and budget. Looking for an affordable option or just starting out? We also offer high-quality, budget-friendly acoustic and electric guitars from Taylor Guitars, Seagull Guitars, and Yamaha Acoustic Guitars.
What is an Acoustic Guitar and its Characteristics
An acoustic guitar is a type of stringed instrument that uses a hollow body and a soundboard to produce sound, instead of relying on electronic amplification. The soundboard is usually made of wood, and the body can be crafted from wood or synthetic materials. Steel strings are typically used, but acoustic guitars can also be strung with nylon or other types of strings. Acoustic guitars can be played with a pick or fingers and are popular in various music genres, including folk, country, blues, and classical.
Reasons to Choose an Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitars have a lot to offer, attracting players for different reasons. The rich and warm sound that an acoustic guitar produces is often described as "full" or "rounded," and is appreciated by many players. The versatility of the instrument allows it to be played in a variety of styles and genres, such as folk, country, blues, and classical. The simplicity of an acoustic guitar is also appealing, as it does not require electronic amplification or other equipment. Furthermore, the portability of acoustic guitars makes them convenient for playing at home, with friends, or on the go.
History of the Acoustic Guitar
The acoustic guitar has a rich and diverse history that stretches back centuries. The modern acoustic guitar is derived from various stringed instruments developed in different parts of the world. The lute, one of the earliest known stringed instruments, was developed in ancient Egypt and was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages. The lute was a pear-shaped instrument with a long neck and a hollow body and was used to play melodies and accompaniments.
The guitar as we know it today is believed to have evolved from the lute, and it was first developed in Spain in the 15th century. Early guitars had four courses (pairs) of strings, which were tuned in fourths and were played with the fingers. They were used to play a wide range of music, including folk, popular, and classical. Over time, the guitar has undergone many changes and has been adapted to meet the needs of different musicians and musical styles. Today, the acoustic guitar is a popular instrument used in various music genres, including folk, country, blues, and classical.
Best Guitars for Beginners
There are many great options for beginner acoustic guitars, and the best one for you will depend on your budget, playing style, and preferences. A budget-friendly option for beginners is the Yamaha FG800, known for its excellent sound quality and playability. The Yamaha FG800 has a solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides, which give it a warm and full sound. For those who prefer a North American-made guitar, Taylor is a great step-up option. Try out a few different guitars to find the one that works best for you and your playing style.