Guitars

This Rutters custom Style T was built to order in January of 2017. It features a roasted Alder body, and a roasted Maple and Rosewood neck. The pickups and potentiometers were custom ordered from Ron Ellis. All the rest of the parts are custom made by Rutters. The saddles are intonation compensated, and the bridge and neck plates feature a Rutters stamp. It also features a Rutters twisted jack cup. The control plate is reversed so that you don't accidentally hit the selector switch when you're strumming, and the switch tip is knurled metal to match the knobs. The nut width is 1 3/4" and the scale length is 25 1/2". It weighs in at 7 lbs .08 oz. and features #6125 Jescar frets ( .095 x .047"). The neck profile is "C" with a .86" thickness at the 1st fret and .97" at the 12th. It comes with a hard shell case. This guitar sounds and feels great! With a 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.

This Creston Barn Beam custom guitar not only sounds amazing, but it has a beautifully aged barn beam body reclaimed from a Vermont barn not far from the Creston guitar workshop in Burlington, VT. Salvaged white pine body maple / rosewood neck steel pickguard Lollar 1950's-wind soapbar Lollar Vintage bridge pickup It comes with a teardrop hard case in alligator.

This super-sweet OOO is in incredible condition and is perfect for anyone who wants just a little extra room to move and features a 1 13/16” width nut and 2 5/16” width saddle spacing. Other custom features on this sweet, slot-head 12 fret guitar are Mahogany back and sides, a European Spruce top, Adirondack bracing attached with hot hide glue, an abalone rosette, gold Waverly tuners and a loose pickguard in the case. It comes with it’s original hard shell case.

The latest koa entry in the Builder’s Edition family is this Grand Auditorium K24ce, build with all-solid Hawaiian koa with V-Class bracing under the hood. Sonically, it bears the hallmarks of koa’s unique tone, with high-end clarity balanced against the volume and sustain improvements delivered by the new bracing scheme. Koa’s inimitable aging properties also make this guitar a special find, opening and adding depth and sweetness as the guitar is played over time. Designed to optimize the player’s experience with a handful of ergonomic features, this model includes a double-contoured cutaway for easy playing all the way down to the highest frets, along with a smooth armrest that takes the pressure off the player’s strumming arm. The Silent Satin finish treatment adds a subtle visual touch while removing much of the incidental noise that comes from the player’s arm movement, making this an ideal choice for session or studio players looking to lay down tracks. It ships with ES2 electronics in a deluxe hardshell case.

This is one cool Swiss-design guitar! It comes with a set of Relish Alnico Humbuckers. The Eucalypt Mary is coated in a magnificent eucalyptus veneer on the body front and the headstock, framed by black edges and a black magnetically deatcheable back lid. Mary really stands out with a unique look, a crystal clear clean sound and her floating sandwich construction. The piano-style construction with two magnetic high pressure veneers on either side of her aluminum core creates a brilliant crystal clear sound that vibrates freely from the bolted on bent neck to the piezo loaded saddles in the bridge. The ghost piezo by Graph Tech, built into the saddles adds warmth and enhances the guitar’s natural acoustic sound, widening the already extensive pickup functionalities provided by a push-push coil split tone knob. The magnetic back lid gives access to Mary’s tidy interior and makes way for lightspeed pickup swapping. SPECIFICATIONS Body Construction: Semi-Hollow Floating Sandwich Construction Scale Length: 650 mm (25.59") Case: Relish Hard Case Weight: 3.7 kg (8.2 lbs) Tuners: Gotoh SG 381 Truss Rod: Two-Way Switch: 1 Volume, 1 Tone (Push-Push Coil Split), 3-Way Stereo Toggle (Pickups Mono, Piezo Mono, Pickups & Piezo Stereo), 3-Way Toggle, Piezo Mid Range Boost Push/Pull Strings: D'Addario NYXL 10-46 Pickups: GHOST Piezo by Graph Tech (Stereo Output Jack), Relish Alnico Humbucker (Pickup Swapping-ready) Body Material: Aluminium / High Pressure Veneers Nut Width: 42.5 mm (1.67") Nut Material: Graphite Neck Shape: modern "C" shape (tapered 43mm-57mm) Neck Material: Bent 1-Piece Maple Fretwire: 24 Medium Jumbo Stainless Steel Frets Fretboard Radius: 10"

This gorgeous 12-String is the same model we stock that sells for $4199 new! It is in nearly perfect condition except for one ding in the top binding. Built with figured Big Leaf maple for the back and sides with a torrefied Sitka spruce top. V-Class bracing delivers a unique boost in the 12-string configuration, adding texture and tonal bloom as notes resonate with increased sustain and power, while the guitar takes on additional punch resulting from the reversed string orientation. Placing the fundamental string at the top of each pair adds warmth and body, and their new double-mounted string anchoring system provides cleaner intonation with each string crossing the saddle at the same point. Taylor’s special roasting process draws a more aged-in, sweetened response from the torrefied spruce top, and the 12-fret setup brings the bridge closer to the center of the lower bout for stronger midrange presence and a slinkier, more relaxed feel for your fretting hand. This 652ce is appointed to deliver a playing experience that matches its robust tone, with chamfered body and fretboard edges, a smooth Curve Wing bridge, and beveled armrest and cutaway providing a truly fluid, intimate connection between player and instrument. Like many of its Builder’s Edition counterparts, this 12-string is finished in an edgburst-hued Silent Satin sheen that reduces incidental noise for clean recordings, along with Scepter inlays in shell and mother-of-pearl for an artful, eye-catching visual character. It ships with ES2 electronics in a deluxe Taylor hardshell case.

This is a beautiful12 string that is in great cosmetic and playing shape. The top is in 98% cosmetic condition and the rest of the guitar is even better. This popular Acoustic/Electric model is gig-ready with Takamine’s CT4B II electronics. It features a Solid Spruce top and laminated Gloss Maple back and sides. The nut width is 1.825”. It comes with its original Takamine hard shell case.

This used instrument is in excellent condition and comes with its original hard shell case. It plays and sounds great with a warm and woody tone. This lightweight beauty weighs in at a featherweight 3 lbs, 7.8 oz. The OM-18 Authentic 1931 is made with genuine mahogany back and sides and Adirondack spruce with Martin’s Vintage Tone System (VTS). All other appointments and processes, including hide glue construction, hand shaping and assembly, and tucked under bridge plate and bracing, are completely faithful to Martin's early 1930s building techniques. Martin’s Authentic series of guitars replicate the aged appearance and tonality of vintage guitars to a remarkable degree. Model: OM-18 Authentic 1933 Construction: Mahogany Blocks/Dovetail Neck Joint - Hide Glue Construction Top: Solid Adirondack Spruce Top Bracing Pattern: Standard ''X'' Scalloped (Authentic Style) - Circa 1933 Top Braces: Solid Adirondack Spruce 5/16'' Back Material: Solid Genuine Mahogany Side Material: Solid Genuine Mahogany Neck Material: Solid Genuine Mahogany Neck Shape: Authentic 1933 Barrel and Heel Nut Material: Solid Black Ebony Fingerboard Material: Solid Black Ebony Scale Length: 25.4'' Number Of Frets Clear: 14 Number Of Frets Total: 20 Fingerboard Width At Nut: 1-3/4'' Fingerboard Width At 12th Fret: 2-1/4'' Fingerboard Position Inlays: Old Style 18 Bridge Style: Authentic Style Belly w/Long Saddle Bridge String Spacing: 2-3/8'' Saddle: 16" Radius/Long Bone Tuning Machines: Waverly Nickel 8060 w/Butterbean Kno bs

This is the best sounding 0 style that we have, a beautiful sounding small-but-loud-guitar! The wood selection and the voicing of this guitar gives it a gorgeous, rich tone in a super-comfortable size. Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top Master Grade Brazilian Rosewood back and sides 1 ¾ nut width, Short Scale DB Signature Herringbone Koa fret board, headstock, body binding and end piece inlay Brazilian Rosewood headstock overlay Gold / snake wood Waverly tuners Animal protein glue / aged tone finish Aged-Tone torrefied Bracing View the full size photos on Google Drive.

Iris guitars presents the OG acoustic guitar. This instrument features solid mahogany back and sides along with a extra special spruce top with some gorgeous figuring in it. One of the perks of Adam housing Allied Lutherie wood supply in the same building as Iris is that he often has pieces of wood that are a little extra special. Tonally this guitar has a warm sound with slightly pronounced mids with a nice shimmer on the top end. Though it excels as a fingerstyle instrument, it has a beautiful throaty flat pick tone and a wonderful vibey tone when strumming simple folk chords. This instrument comes with a TKL hard shell case.

Super comfortable to play with a good small jumbo punch this Iris maple is a joy to play. Featuring a 25" scale length and 1 11/16" nut width, this is a guitar that will not fight you. Hand made in Burlington, Vermont by a small team of luthiers these guitars are both artful and functional. Tonally this guitar both rings like a bell from the maple but also has a nice overall richness and balance. When played more aggressively it has a spring to the sound and when played more gently it excellent harmonic support with rich bass. The wood on this instrument is a gorgeous west coast Big Leaf Maple on the back and sides and quality Sitka Spruce top. Adorning this great guitar is the unique Iris AB pickguard. The entire instrument has excellent resonance and the thin no fuss finish lets all the good vibrations out easily. This instrument comes with a TKL hardshell case.

1969 J-45 Gibson Serial 536451 This is a rare gem of a guitar, this instrument has such a classic tone one strum and I was back in the 60s recording my favorite albums. A classic Gibson J-45 tone, with a natural high-end roll off and that amazing rhythmic, chunky tone. This is the perfect instrument for any fans of classic music. This guitar would be great for everything from indie, to country to fingerstyle songwriter. It has a kind of Jonathan Wilson sound to it, a true tone machine. Nice slim neck makes it comfortable and easy to play. This guitar features an Amulet M Pickup, which is a dual mono system, professionally installed with end-pin jack. Overall very good condition. Beautifully checked finish. Little to no fret-wear, lots of life left in them. This instrument features a gorgeous tobacco bust. Comes with what might be the original hard shell case with maroon velvet interior. A strap button was installed on neck.

1968 Gibson “Square Shoulder” J-45 Serial # 927338 Awesome J-45 tone with a dreadnought vibe. This guitar has a rich and chunky tone great for both rhythmic and melodic playing. Has a kind of Laurel Canyon vibe when picked with the fingers. A real 60s gem. Has a really great sort of “indie” tone to it. This guitar features a professionally installed piezo pickup with end pin jack. Comes with what appears to be the original brown gator chipboard case with orange interior. Beautifully checked tobacco burst finish. A few dings and dents here and there as you might expect on a guitar of this vintage. Light to little fret-wear, lots of life left in these frets! Very good overall condition. Strung with custom light strings for ease of playing. Bridge height adjustment screw sheared in half in setup and was soldered back together.

This custom gold top tele just kills! The beauty boasts a Honduran Mahogany hand oiled body and highly flamed Maple hand shaved soft V neck. The abalone inlays offset the birds-eye Maple fingerboard. The Sperzel locking tuners stabilize tuning and make string changes a breeze. The classic feel of the neck is complemented but the great sounding choice of a T.V. Jones T'Armond neck pickup and a Lindy Fralin Blues Special bridge pickup. The guitar weighs in at 7 lbs 8.6 oz. This guitar is in excellent condition with only a single, small flaw in the finish at the neck joint from the neck from being removed once for an adjustment. It comes with a tweed hard shell case.

Gibson Montana J-45 75th Anniversary Acoustic Triburst. Celebrating 75 years of the J45 this round-shoulder dreadnought features Thermally Aged Adirondack Spruce and figured mahogany back and sides. The finish is hand-rubbed Triburst that is vintage toned. Mahogany neck, rosewood fingerboard/ bridge and and gold plated tuners. This instrument also features ivoroid buttons, a bone nut and saddle as-well as LR Baggs Session pickup system. Excellent overall condition. Little to no fret-wear or pick/pinky cuticle marking on pick guard. Super light finish wear you might expect from a gently used instrument. No dings or dents of note. Beautiful playability, gorgeous details, striking wood grains.