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Featuring a Thermo Cured Spruce top, and solid Mahogany back and sides. The Orchestra name was given to this model in 1929 in an attempt to entice guitarists in dance orchestras to pick one up and take it to a gig. In more recent years, it has become a go-to instrument for finger pickers, due to its sensitive dynamic profile and subtle tonal properties. It provides a more carefully sculpted sound than a big bodied acoustic.

  Colling's Traditional Series or “T” guitars represent an exciting vintage-inspired tonal variation on the distinctive Collings sound, designed and crafted to showcase the most desirable characteristics present in coveted pre-war instruments. Bracing and tone woods are adjusted for weight and thickness to create a voicing characterized by warm, rounded highs and a present low midrange, while retaining a quick attack and strong projection.

  This Thompson D-MA features an Adirondack Spruce Top, Adirondack braces, and Sunburst Top.
  Preston Thompson Dreadnought models are all crafted to produce the tone and volume that the dreadnought guitar was originally designed to achieve. These are powerful instruments that, when needed, stand up to the volume of a mandolin, fiddle and banjo. They have the bass response that provides an almost full orchestral backing to vocals. Their mid-range response and bright trebles take flatpicking and lead playing to new levels of achievement.
  These are traditional instruments and all models are based on the famous 1937 Herringbone Dreadnought, owned by the late, great Charles Sawtelle of the award winning bluegrass band, Hot Rize. All feature Red spruce (Adirondack) tops chosen for tap tone and stiffness, advanced X brace placement, hand graduated top thickness, pre-war hand carved scalloped braces, nitro-cellulose lacquer finishes and time tested design features such as dovetail neck joints.

  Here is a near-mint 2024 Collings D1AT with an Adirondack top that looks, feels, and sounds phenomenal. Frets are spotless, and the tone is everything you would expect from Collings - clear, powerful, and balanced. A strap button has been added at the neck heel, and it comes with the original hardshell case and papers.
  This is the classic dreadnought done the Collings way —extremely loud, powerful, balanced, and clear. The square-shouldered 14-fret dreadnought is the most popular steel-string acoustic guitar shape in the world, and while many builders make them, Collings brings unmatched tonal clarity and refinement to the big-bodied design. Its strong bass response makes it perfect for vocal accompaniment, while its articulate projection makes it a favorite of bluegrass flatpickers who need to cut through banjos and fiddles.

Built on the comfortable, versatile foundation of our Grand Auditorium body shape, this 300 Series 12-string acoustic-electric guitar serves up a rich octave voice that adapts beautifully across styles and genres. Back and sides of solid sapele paired with a Sitka spruce top yield a bold midrange character with minimal overtones, maintaining clarity along with the double-course sound while our V-Class bracing adds more volume, longer sustain and improved harmony all the way up the neck. Players are sure to appreciate the slender, easy-playing neck, which offers relaxed fretting across the entire tonal spectrum. This model features sleek black binding, a Venetian cutaway, Gemstone fretboard inlays, a firestripe pickguard and a gloss-finished top with a satin finish for the back and sides.

Simple. Clean. Versatile. It's your daily driver. Everything you need. Nothing you don't. With a name suggested by Ricky Skaggs in the late 90's, the Country Boy features a AAAA grade Sitka Spruce top paired with premium Mahogany back and sides to create a versatile platform agreeable with any playing style. This PS-S version features Bourgeois' newest satin finish lacquer, offering vintage tone with a refined, traditional finish.

Vintage inspired. Professional approved. A cornerstone of the Bourgeois lineup for decades, the Vintage model features hand selected Sitka spruce and the highest available grade of East Indian Rosewood. Marrying an undeniably vintage aesthetic with modern innovations such as a dual action truss rod and our proprietary detachable neck joint, your guitar is designed to resemble the “pre-war” relics, while maintaining an unparalleled level of playability. This PS-S version features Bourgeois' newest satin finish lacquer, offering vintage tone with a refined, traditional finish.

  The Soloist/TS Launch Edition marks the debut of a new era for Bourgeois’ celebrated Soloist model, now available for the first time in their Touchstone Series. Built on Dana Bourgeois’ legendary Soloist platform, the OM cutaway (OMC), which helped define the modern fingerstyle guitar.
  The Soloist/TS Launch Edition features a hand-voiced Lutz spruce top, paired with ebony back and sides. offering a tonal blend of warmth, clarity, and dynamic headroom. This limited edition wood combination produces rich overtones, long sustain, and a clear, articulate bass response, perfect for expressive fingerstyle playing or delicate rhythm work that supports vocals without overwhelming them.

  This Preston Thompson D-MAD/Adi dreadnought is a powerhouse of tone and craftsmanship. Built in the spirit of the golden-era Martins, it features a hand-voiced Adirondack spruce top paired with premium Madagascar rosewood back and sides—a tonewood combo revered for its exceptional clarity, headroom, and rich harmonic content.
  The Adirondack top delivers quick response and projection with plenty of dynamic range, while the Madagascar rosewood offers deep lows, complex overtones, and shimmering highs...perfect for flatpicking, strumming, or dynamic fingerstyle.

  This limited edition Bourgeois HSV-D from the Heirloom Series offers a refined take on their classic vintage-inspired dreadnought. Built with an Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top, and Brazilian Rosewood back and sides, this guitar delivers the kind of warmth, power, and dynamic range that defines the best pre-war dreadnoughts.
  Finished entirely in Bourgeois' new ultra thin satin, the HSV-D feels broken-in and resonant right out of the case. It looks understated and elegant while allowing the wood to breathe and sing.

Crafted with all-solid tonewoods, striking appointments and an easy-playing Taylor neck, the new 414ce Studio offers pro-quality tone and feel at an appealing price for the budget-minded player. This model features back and sides of solid Indian rosewood paired with a torrefied Sitka spruce top, voiced with our V-Class bracing. It adds up to a high-fidelity sound with clear, bell-like trebles, a robust low-end response and rich harmonic texture, plus an added dash of warmth from our proprietary roasting process for the spruce top. With the Grand Auditorium body shape, players can expect a highly adaptable tone that performs well across virtually all genres and playing styles, while the slender Taylor neck ensures relaxed fretting across the frequency spectrum. It includes ES2 electronics for rich, clear plugged-in sound and ships with a resilient structured gig bag for storage and transportation.