Brazilian Rosewood

This is simply the best D-150 currently available with a quality level of Brazilian Rosewood that is almost impossible to find today. It is quarter-sawn and has beautiful figuring with great depth and shimmer. The master grade Adirondack Spruce top is also one of the best we've seen or heard in a long time and has nice tight grain. The sound of this guitar is over the top good with balance, volume, richness, and detail and it is great for flatpicking and fingerpicking. This one owner D-150 has received regular care from Dana Bourgeois and is in excellent condition. It has some very light buckle indentations on the back that do not detract from the appearance as well as some light capo marks on the neck that don't affect the feel of the neck and could be buffed if desired by the new owner. This is one of the good ones. It comes with its original hard shell case.

This 2015 Taylor 816ce is one of the best sounding guitars that they've ever made. The Grand Symphony size guitar is rich sounding to begin with and the addition of Brazilian Rosewood for the back and side puts the sound over the top. The sound is rich and clear with plenty of bass. The guitar is in super-clean condition with only moderate fret wear that shows that it has been played and loved. It also plays as good as it sounds and the 1 3/4" nut width gives you plenty of room for left hand fingerings. It comes with its original hard shell case.

This 1966 D-35 is in great condition and is a one owner instrument that has been well cared and loved for the last 55 years. The three-piece back features Martin's legendary, straight-grain Brazilian Rosewood. You'll know why it is so sought-after with one chord strummed on this guitar. This D-35 was serviced in 2020 by master-luthier, Pat DiBurro and is ready to play and enjoy. The list of work done is: glue loose frets, fret-level and set-up, remove-and reglue bridge, remove/reglue pickguard with touch-up, fix loose end strip and glue a small back crack. It comes with it's original hard shell case.

The bottom line: #651! Brazilian Rosewood, Adirondack Spruce, a great neck up and down, solid tone and lots of volume! This is the first guitar that Dana Bourgeois built for Ricky Skaggs back in 1996. We brought the guitar to the Bourgeois shop in Lewiston, Maine to let Dana have a look at it again after 25 years. He recalled that Bryan Sutton, who was already playing a Banjo Killer, introduced Dana and Ricky at the Point Thomas Bluegrass festival in 1996 and that he built a guitar for both Bryan and Ricky. We looked at Dana’s records and found #651 in a log book with Ricky’s name on it. Dana is pretty sure that this was Ricky’s personal road guitar from 1996 to 2002. We’ll include a copy of the log page with the guitar. As Dana noted when he picked it up for the first time in 25 years, it plays great, easy up and down the neck and has had new frets installed. The tone is even and balanced and this guitar is capable of playing loud and responding to energetic playing like you would expect from Ricky Skaggs’s show guitar. We carefully examined the guitar at the Bourgeois shop and made these notes on it. The pick guard is original and the wear on the top was earned honestly playing Bluegrass music. The guitar is road-worn but was well maintained so that it is solid and sounds great. There is a small repaired crack on the back. We presume that there has been a neck re-set and the bridge was thinned to a height to allow for a tall full saddle with lots of room to shave in the future. The original neck profile was thinned (see photos). That and the 1 3/4" nut makes the neck feel contemporary and easy to play. The guitar is gig ready with a Fishman VT system installed and comes with a hard shell case.

We are proud and privileged to present one of the true holy grails of the acoustic guitar world, the Santa Cruz 1934 D! The tone on this instrument is just beautiful thanks to its old growth Brazilian Rosewood and old Adirondack Spruce. It is set up perfectly and the neck features a traditional 1 11/16" width nut and 25.25" scale for an incredible feel. We are the original sellers of this one owner guitar and so we know that it has been carefully cared for. It is in mint condition though the frets show enough play that we should say that they are in 98%+ condition. The case is super-clean too as this guitar has never been "gigged". This is instrument is one of "the good ones", super-cool and inspiring to play!

This really great sounding Brazilian Rosewood Martin is the perfect instrument for playing all kinds of Americana music. The action is low and the tone is rich and full like you’d expect from a vintage Martin dread. This classic guitar is really clean with only light top checking and minimal signs of play on the gorgeous Brazilian Rosewood. A one-owner guitar, it was thoroughly gone over so it will completely hassle-free to enjoy. You’ll be glad to know that these common age-related guitar ailments were addressed: a neck reset was performed and the bridge and pickguard were replaced. Also, loose back binding and a top crack were glued. Don’t wait if you have been thinking about getting one of these iconic Dreadnoughts. As time goes by, we are seeing fewer examples of Brazilian D-28’s this nice! It comes with its original hard shell case.

This is number 2 in a series of five Brazilian Victorian Limited Edition Parlor that Bourgeois offered in 2019. It is one of the best sounding parlor guitars we have had in the shop. It's lightly played with minimal fret wear and is in super clean shape. We are the original sellers of this one owner instrument and know that it has been cared for properly. The tone from it's premium Brazilian Rosewood, Adirondack Spruce and animal protein glue is as good as it gets. The short scale along with a 1 3/4" width nut and 2 5/16" bridge string spacing feel just great too. We have listed the build sheet to this guitar so that you can see all of the features that make this guitar so special. It comes with it's original hard shell case.

This is one of the rare, great ones! This cut-away, deep body, 12 fret variation with short scale length and 1 3/4" width nut sounds and plays as good it gets. This custom instrument features an incredible Tier 1, quartersawn, master grade, highly figured Brazilian Rosewood body and an Adirondack Spruce top with Adirondack bracing attached with hot hide glue. It features a soft V neck (more like Santa Cruz's OO models than the standard H sharp V), an Ivoroid bound pegged and zipper back-stripe. The look of this guitar is topped off with a Torch pegged inlay and 42 stye fingerboard inly. It is excellent to near mint condition and comes with its original hard shell case. View the full size images on Google Drive.