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SoldBourgeois The Coupe 00-12/C Signature Deluxe Legacy Series
Here is one super-sweet guitar that plays like a dream and has classic tone. We personally selected the tonewoods for this instrument with Dana Bourgeois at his Lewiston, Maine shop. This 12 fret OO with a cutaway features a rare, straight-grained set of Brazilian Rosewood on the back and sides and a gorgeous Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top. This guitar rewards you with the warm, clear tone and tons of harmonic response that you should expect from a Brazilian Rosewood guitar of this high quality level. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois O Country Boy Professional Series
If you’ve been seeking a comfortable sized, easy-playing smaller guitar, this little O might be just right for you. It has a great balanced tone from a tap-tuned Sitka Spruce top and Mahogany sides and back. It’s short scale, 1 ¾” width nut and 2 5/16” bridge spacing give it the perfect feel and it’s Professional series appointments give it an elegant look. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois OM Vintage HS Heirloom Series
This OM sports great traditional features and a beautiful Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top and a highest quality set of East Indian Rosewood back and sides. It feels great and sports a long scale, 1 ¾” nut width and 2 5/16” bridge spacing. This hand built, tap-tuned voiced instrument delivers big OM tone in spades! It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois OM Vintage Professional Series
Bourgeois guitars has been sourcing some excellent quality East Indian Rosewood. This OM Vintage has a beautiful set that really compliment its high quality Sitka Spruce top. The long scale, 1 ¾” nut width and 2 5/16” width bridge spacing give this guitar the perfect playing feel. The Vintage appointments give this guitar and elegant traditional appearance. This is a sweet, warm and balanced OM that makes good on its promise! It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois OM DB Signature Legacy Series
This is a guitar that sounds as great as it looks. It has a beautiful quartersawn Italian Spruce top and a Master Grade Madagascar rosewood back and sides that we personally selected the for this instrument with Dana Bourgeois at his Lewiston, Maine shop. We think that the DB signature appointments and wood selection really compliment each other. This guitar feels great and has a long scale, 1 ¾” nut width and 2 5/16” bridge spacing for super playability. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois OMSC Fingerstyle Deluxe Legacy Series
The FS Deluxe has wonderful tone and is very similar the Soloist model but with Dana’s signature appointments added. Dana was there for the initial resurrection of the OM and built the very first OM cutaways. This is a most beautiful example and features a gorgeous Swiss Spruce top and a Master Grade Cocobolo back. The cutaway, 1 ¾” nut , 2 5/16” bridge spacing and long scale makes this model feel both super traditional and super playable. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois D Vintage Professional Series
No one knows Dreadnoughts like Dana Bourgeois and this tapped-tuned, hand-voiced Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood model is loud and full of the magic traditional tone that you are seeking. The 1 23/32” nut width and 2.2” bridge spacing give you the fast feel that you need for playing traditional and contemporary styles. This Professional Series Dread from Bourgeois gives you a lot of bang for the buck! It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois D Vintage HS Heirloom Series
This Heirloom Series Dreadnaught has a great combination of step-up features that lend it great looks and authoritative tone. It features a genuine Adirondack Spruce top and top-grade Indian Rosewood sides and back and bone bridge pins. The 1 23/32” width nut and 2.2” bridge spacing give you a sleek feel for playing traditional and contemporary styles. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldBourgeois JOMT Country Boy HS Heirloom Series
The JOMT is one of our favorite size guitars. It has the feel and balanced sound of an OM with a little bit more bottom end. This beauty features an Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top and Mahogany back and sides and Aged Tone Torrefied Bracing attached with Animal Protein glue for killer tone. It feels real easy to play and has a long scale neck coupled with a 1 23/32” nut width and 2.2” bridge spacing. It comes with a deluxe hard shell case.
SoldSeagull Artist Mosaic CW HG Anthem EQ
The Seagull Artist line is renewed with the addition of the Artist Mosaic CW HG EQ. Offering a complete array of features, this guitar checks all the boxes for the pro musician with a shimmery natural finish, a full bodied dreadnought high-gloss mahogany body shape for exceptional tone and projection, an ample cutaway for easy upper fret access, a highly vibrant and resonant solid spruce top, new Seagull Artist inlays, discretely placed LR Baggs Anthem system, and utmost attention to detail and build quality. The Seagull Artist Mosaic CW HG EQ is a true collection piece.
Sold2011 Gibson Advanced Jumbo Studio
This 2011 sunburst Gibson Advance Jumbo Studio model was 1 of just 2 built. It was built in Bozeman, Montana and has a C.O.A. signed by Ren Ferguson, Gibson's master builder at the time. It has a Sitka Spruce top with mahogany back and sides. Mahogany neck with rosewood fingerboard which has MOP inlay, Bone nut and saddle and celluloid firestripe pickguard. It is gig ready with an LR Baggs Lyric pickup installed. This guitar is in good playing condition and shows some signs of use and minor fret wear. There is a repaired crack on the top and one on the back and they have both been properly cleated and are stable. This guitar has good action, plays easy and sounds really great, full of that rootsy Gibson tone! It comes with it's original hard shell case.
Sold2016 Martin DC18E
Very good condition This classic Martin with contemporary playability is a modern take on the classic D-18 that was the instrument of choice for Hank Williams. The warm tones of the genuine mahogany back and sides combined with a Sitka spruce top make this Dreadnought, acoustic-electric cutaway model truly sing. A solid black ebony fingerboard and bridge, tortoise color binding and matching pickguard adorn this model. Martin introduced the new, Fishman ® Aura ® VT Enhance™ electronics on this model. Aura ® VT Enhance™ electronics uses the most advanced technology with discreet, soundhole-mounted controls for volume and tone preserving the pure and unique acoustic tone of each model. This guitar is in very good to excellent conditions with very slight fret wear and signs of play. w/gig bag.
Sold1981 Ovation 1612 Balladeer
Excellent condition This Ovation Custom Balladeer 1612 has a Grade A Solid Sitka Spruce Top, and a Lyrachord Deep Bowl Back. The Soft "V" 1 Piece Mahogany Neck with Ebony Fingerboard and a 10" Radius fingerboard plays like butter. Other features include a Walnut Bridge, Ovation Closed Back Chrome Tuners, Piezoelectric Pickup w/FET Preamp System. It comes with it's factory original hard case.
SoldSeagull S6 Cedar Original Slim QIT
The award-winning S6 Original Series gets revamped without compromising the classic appeal it is known for. The S6 Original SLIM includes a pressure tested cedar top, a silver leaf maple neck with a 1.72" nut width for comfortable playability, a custom polished semi-gloss finish, and a bolder look on the neck, back and sides. The combined tone woods and thin yet durable finish allow the S6 SLIM to project with a crisp midrange and tight bottom end; making it a tonal essential for any player. It comes equipped with the custom Godin QIT electronics—a system specifically voiced to bring out the harmonic richness and clarity of the S6 Original SLIM QIT.
Sold2019 Bourgeois Parlor Brazilian Victorian Limited Edition #2 of 5
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.
Sold2010 Martin GPCPA1
T his Performance Series acoustic-electric cutaway model has solid East Indian rosewood back and sides and a Sitka Spruce top. It feels great with a 1 3/4" nut width and a 25.4" scale length. It is a great gigging and recording guitar with a Fishman Aura system! This guitar has been well played but well taken care of too. The tone is outstanding. It comes with it's Martin hard case that we think is original.
SoldSanta Cruz Custom OM Walnut Cedar
We are super-pleased to be able to present this gorgeous Cedar topped custom OM. The back and sides feature some very beautiful sounding Walnut and the 1 3/4" nut width on this OM feels just right. The list of custom features goes on and includes Adirondack Spruce bracing attached with hot hide glue, Walnut rosette, purfle combo border, a thin black back strip, Walnut body biding, an unbound peghead with walnut overlay, script logo inlay, black fingerboard binding, diamonds and squares short pattern fingerboard inlays and a Buttered Toast sunburst top. It all adds up to a very stylish but understated guitar! A hard shell case is included.
Sold1991 Martin 0-16 NY
This Martin 12 fret 0-16 NY plays great, sounds lovely and will not disappoint! It features a 1 7/8" width nut, a 25 1/4" scale length and a slotted headstock. This is a great guitar for folk and fingerstyles. It comes with a high quality, clean non-original hard shell case.
Sold2015 Gibson Hummingbird Vintage
This classic beauty plays great, has miles of Gibson tone and is in 99.5% excellent, near mint condition. It features a Sitka Spruce top and Mahogany back and sides. It has a 1.725" inch width nut (1 11/16"), 24.75" scale length, rosewood fingerboard with mother of pearl parallelogram inlays. The original hard shell case is included.
Sold2003 Guild Benedetto Stuart Model
This is a beautiful, California made, sunburst example of this rare and beautiful guitar. It is in excellent condition, signed by Benedetto and feels and sounds just great! According to Guild, the Stuart Benedetto Signature model was the ultimate in electric jazz guitars, the pride of their sound engineers and wood craftsmen. Its distinctive fast action, 5-piece neck is fashioned of select flame Maple with an Ebony fretboard elegantly inlaid with deluxe two-tone Abalone and Mother-of-Pearl position markers. The Stuart’s full Venetian cutaway body is 17" wide by 3" deep and boasts the same graduated, carved solid Spruce top as the Artist Award and 1.69" nut width. Gold plated hardware and engraved harp tailpiece add the final touch to this superb instrument. It has a 25.5" scale length, an all maple neck, Benedetto A-6 pickups, inlaid Benedetto logo at the 12th fret and a hand carved solid European spruce top and the back and sides are solid figured German maple. More specs can be found on Guitar-list at: https://www.guitar-list.com/ guild/electric-guitars/guild- x-700-stuart-benedetto It comes with it's original alligator hard shell case.
Sold1950's Gibson L7
Here's a great older Gibson arch-top model that sounds great and has nice, low, playable action. It has a Spruce top and Maple sides and back. The Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard has split-parallelogram inlays. This L7 is dated to 1957 by Steve Ryder Instruments of Portland Maine but we're just calling it a "50's" since it looks like the serial number was removed a long time ago. There's a fair amount of wear on this guitar but it has tons of soul and a lot of good miles ahead of it! It comes with a non-orignal tweed hard shell case.
Sold1971 Martin D-35
This D-35 Dreadnought has a gorgeous well-broken in tone and plays like a dream. This guitar features a Sitka Spruce top and a gorgeous 3 piece East Indian Rosewood back. This one-owner instrument has been meticulously maintained over the past 50 years. It most recently was prepared for resale by the renowned DiBurro Guitars of Exeter, NH so it is ready for its next 100,000 miles. Just completed maintenance includes removing and re-gluing the bridge, gluing top some top cracks and professionally filling and smoothing the neck and buckle rash on the back and full body buff. This guitar is looking and playing good but the sound is what this is really about...great big, wide open classic Americana tone! It comes with a hard shell case.
SoldSeagull Entourage Autumn Burst CW QIT
Autumn is a time for change and the Seagull Entourage Series has undergone a beautiful change of its own with its new Autumn Burst finish! The Entourage Autumn Burst QIT also boasts other exciting new features, such as an eye-catching white binding, a redesigned pickguard, and a richer/shaded finish on the back and sides. It comes equipped with the Godin QIT system; ready to turn it up as you hit the stage and keep you in tune thanks to its built-in tuner.
SoldSanta Cruz OM African Blackwood
The tonewood combination on this OM is inspirational! Its Carpathian Spruce top is loud and responsive and African Blackwood is one of our favorite rosewoods for backs and sides with a complex tone that we can't get enough of. The tone is rounded out with the addition of Brazilian Rosewood for the bridge and fingerboard with a 1 3/4" width nut. Of course the Brazilian fingerboard feels great on your fingers too! Adirondack Spruce bracing attached with hot hide glue adds the finishing touch to the tone. This beauty also has some classy cosmetic touches like an abalone rosette inlay and tortoise body, neck and peghead binding. It comes with a hard shell case.
What are the best guitars for beginners?
The best guitars for beginners have to be both affordable and high-quality, so that you don't have to struggle and can enjoy excellent tone. We recommend that all beginners start with Taylor guitars, particularly the Academy, GS-Mini or Baby guitars, as they are affordable, North American made and easily adjusted by a skilled guitar tech. Many of our customers have a limited budget, or want a guitar they don't have to worry about taking to the camp fire. In this case, we recommend Yamaha guitars as excellent entry level guitars. We have found that they stand out from the competing in terms of their build quality, playability and they are remarkably durable. In summary, the best guitars for beginners are Taylor and Yamaha guitars. However we always recommend that beginners purchase the best quality guitar they can afford, that way they can enjoy the experience and have an instrument that they can grow into. And the worst guitars for beginners tend to be old ones, with rusty strings and high action (where the guitar strings are hard to press down). In that case, we often recommend getting a fresh new Yamaha or Taylor to get started. Once you move from beginner to intermediate, we have an entire world of professional, top shelf guitars to enjoy from Bourgeois, Collings, Santa Cruz, Lowden, Huss & Dalton, Preston Thompson and more!