Bourgeois

The Natural – a natural topped Mahogany box that packs some serious firepower. Pairing a natural Sitka Spruce soundboard with Honduran Mahogany back and sides, the natural harkens from a no-frills design approach to deliver a high performing short scale guitar perfect for vocal accompaniment.

  This Custom Build Banjo Killer is a standard square shouldered dreadnought with a premium bearclaw Sitka spruce top and figured mahogany back and sides. Square headstock shape. The bracing for this guitar is modeled after Bryan Sutton’s famous Bourgeois dubbed the “Banjo Killer". The fingerboard and belly bridge are figured ziricote wood. The Tor-tis pickguard is handmade, and the bridge pins are ebony with abalone dots. The tuners are Nickel Waverly with ivoroid buttons.
  Bryan Sutton has this to say: "From the first time I played the Slope-D Bourgeois that would come to be known as the "Banjo Killer", I was amazed at the range of tone and volume the guitar could produce. The guitar always seems to be to able to handle any dynamic level of play. I can hear the guitar clearly in a loud jam session without feeling like I have to overplay and also enjoy a full and sustained tone when I want to play softly.”

  Drawing on Dana Bourgeois' near half-century of lutherie experience, the Touchstone Series is designed to deliver legendary Bourgeois tone and build quality to a wider range of players than ever before.
  Bourgeois' all-new Touchstone Series guitars feature Old-Growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce tops and Adirondack Spruce braces harvested from deep in their own backyard, selected and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine by Dana Bourgeois and his team.
Using their renown system of hand voicing, all Touchstone Series soundboards are optimized for tonal excellence by a team of skilled luthiers right there in Maine.
  The back and sides of the Touchstone Vintage/TS are made with carefully selected Indian Rosewood and assembled by the talented craftsmen at Eastman Music. Each specialized step is performed by hand to bring out the beauty and tonal complexity of your instrument.

  Drawing on Dana Bourgeois' near half-century of lutherie experience, the Touchstone Series is designed to deliver legendary Bourgeois tone and build quality to a wider range of players than ever before.
  Bourgeois' all-new Touchstone Series guitars feature Old-Growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce tops and Adirondack Spruce braces harvested from deep in their own backyard, selected and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine by Dana Bourgeois and his team.
Using their renown system of hand voicing, all Touchstone Series soundboards are optimized for tonal excellence by a team of skilled luthiers right there in Maine.
  The back and sides of the Touchstone Vintage/TS are made with carefully selected Indian Rosewood and assembled by the talented craftsmen at Eastman Music. Each specialized step is performed by hand to bring out the beauty and tonal complexity of your instrument.

  Drawing on Dana Bourgeois' near half-century of lutherie experience, the Touchstone Series is designed to deliver legendary Bourgeois tone and build quality to a wider range of players than ever before.
  Bourgeois' all-new Touchstone Series guitars feature Old-Growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce tops and Adirondack Spruce braces harvested from deep in their own backyard, selected and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine by Dana Bourgeois and his team.
Using their renown system of hand voicing, all Touchstone Series soundboards are optimized for tonal excellence by a team of skilled luthiers right there in Maine.
  The back and sides of the Touchstone Vintage/TS are made with carefully selected Indian Rosewood and assembled by the talented craftsmen at Eastman Music. Each specialized step is performed by hand to bring out the beauty and tonal complexity of your instrument.

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.

The Large Soundhole Dreadnought is a flatpicking cannon inspired by some of our favorite bluegrass legends. Featuring a Sitka Spruce top, and beautiful Indian Rosewood back & sides, this guitar has an extra dose of projection and maintains all of the punch of Bourgeois' standard Dreadnoughts.

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.

Another spectacular instrument from Dana Bourgeois. This custom ordered Bourgeois was built in 2018. This guitar sounds like a cannon, and has opened up beautifully. The tone of this Honduran Rosewood is extremely similar to Brazilian Rosewood. Nice, strong bass fundamental, great projection, extremely loud and punchy. It's an "all-day-every-day" dreadnought acoustic. You'll never want to put it down. Thanks to the magic of the Adirondack spruce top you get huge low end, crisp and bright high end with lots of punch, and tone and volume that does not break down. No matter how hard you strike this instrument, it just gets louder and never gives out. This guitar has overtones for days with plenty of cut and articulation for serious flatpicking. An LR Baggs Anthem has been installed (a $329 value) and works perfectly. It is without a doubt a guitar of a lifetime!

  This is a Custom Heirloom Series 12-Fret Dreadnought featuring an Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce top and Figured Walnut back and sides.
  We are still in awe of the magnificent American Vintage guitars that inspired generations of players and helped produce diverse traditions of iconic American music. The Heirloom Series is our tip of the hat to the guitars that inspired our careers in lutherie and ignited our never-ending pursuit of the essence of yesteryear’s sound and vibe.
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