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New Jenkins Gitjo Koa/Other

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The Gitjo was made to offer guitarists a chance to make that banjo twang. The six string banjo is not a new concept, however this Lame Horse Gitjo is full of style and has a sound everyone loves. The tone ring is crafted from superb Koa and Maple with a lovely Diamond pattern ring. The multi piece neck meets the body via a thick brass plate that add wonderful sustain and power. This is a really fun instrument that will give you a whole other sound on stage, in the studio or on your front porch. From Blues to Old Time to Celtic you’ll love having this in your arsenal.

Note: Video is representative and not necessarily the exact instrument offered at this time. The Lame Horse Gitjo is of a consistently high build quality and tone and so we don’t record every one that we receive. Photographs, however, are specific to this individual instrument!

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2001 Circa D-28H Shaded Top Cocobolo/Adirondack (Red)

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Here we have a Circa D-28 Shaded Top in Cocobolo Rosewood and Adirondack (Red) Spruce. John Slobod is the man behind Circa guitars and we believe he is building some of the most outstanding pre war martin Style guitars you can find. This D-28 has a unique voice with all the power of the old Martins and a slightly modern complexity of tone that lends itself surprisingly well to fingerpicking. Playability is smooth and fast, the action is set low and the low profile shape of the neck really make playing this guitar a breeze. If you are looking for an all around guitar, with a huge complex voice, we think this one will suite you perfectly.

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2010 Petros Yellow Rose FS Cutaway Ceylon Satinwood/Engelmann

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As breathtaking as the first morning of spring with its promise of the coming warmth of sunlight, our 2010 Petros Yellow Rose FS is a work of art fit to breathe new life into your compositions–and your collection. Plucked harmonics yield haunting overtones, and the trebles shimmer with a focused edge, but don’t overpower the balance between the bass and middle registers, which are themselves expressive and rich. And how could the voice be any less resplendent? Petros blessed the Yellow Rose with gorgeous and rare Ceylon Satinwood for the back and sides, whose bee’s wing figure gives the guitar a sun-kissed golden hue, and an Engelmann Spruce top to ensure the tone of this guitar is comprehensive, articulate, and inspirational. With an Alaskan Yellow Cedar neck, the rich warmth is amplified further, and when the creamy ochre color helps showcase Petros‘ complex rose inlays across the fretboard, rosette, truss rod cover, and tuner knobs.

Designed with the fingerstylist in mind, this FS Yellow Rose excels in lowered tunings, maintaining that elusive crispness despite the lowered string tension–thanks no doubt to that Engelmann Spruce top and the unflagging craftsmanship of Petros Guitars. If you’re looking for a guitar that inspires as much for its appearance as its voice, your search is over: this rose is plucked for you.

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2009 Buscarino Cabaret Macassar Ebony/Cedar

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Here we have a Buscarino Cabaret nylon crossover in Macassar Ebony and Sitka Spruce, this is the sister guitar of the Cabaret Steel string that we have in. John has proven again that his is a master builder and is able to achieve great consistency, this is exactly what we have come to expect from John and his Cabaret model. The voice is clear and precise, well suited to jazz and swing while also being able to handle classical music nicely. Macassar Ebony is a beautiful wood that we don’t see too often, it adds a great clarity to the tone that really works well in this application.

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2011 Froggy Bottom F-12-DLX East Indian/Adirondack (Red)

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We don’t often see a large body guitar from the Froggy Bottom crew, when we found out this one was coming in to the shop we had a pretty good idea that it was going to be special, and boy were we right. This is the F-12-DLX model in Adirondack (Red) Spruce and East Indian Rosewood. Red Spruce and East Indian Rosewood makes for a powerful combination, this guitar has power and headroom to spare, it will take what you put in to it with ease. That being said, the voice is beautiful and delicate if you want it to be, the bass will wow you with its presence and the mids through trebles join right in with warmth and evenness. Froggy Bottom is a house favorite here, we have yet to see a guitar from them that wasn’t stellar, this one holds up to that ideal and then some.

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New Gaffney OM East Indian/Sitka

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This is an extraordinary guitar that we picked up from Julian Gaffney at this years Wodstock guitar show. Julian is a current apprentice in the Somogyi shop, so we can tell you straight out of the gate that Julian has the chops and really understands how to build an exceptional guitar. This is an OM model in East Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce. We are always impressed by the quality builders and guitars that comes out of the Somogyi apprenticeship, Julian has done great work here. There is Somogyi vibe that we love, with plenty of Julians own taste thrown in the mix, this is a beautiful piece of art to look at and to hold. The real star here of this guitar is the tone, it has the big sonorous bass that the Somogyi school is known for, with shimmering and round trebles. This is a guitar that you will have no problem getting lost in, as a matter of fact we dare you not to.

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Santa Cruz PJ East Indian/Sitka

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It is quite hard to make a parlor size guitar that really sings, we have to say that Santa Cruz hit the mark with this PJ model. When you first pick this little beauty up and strike the first chord you will breath taken by just how much voice and tone a little box like this can give. The parlor guitar was originally intended for small intimate settings like a parlor or sitting room, usually soft voiced and small bodied, they never really were intended to go beyond that purpose. This PJ however, could fill up a large room with sound! It has plenty of bark and growl, play some blues or sweet classical music on it, anything really, it will sound great.

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1928 National Style 1 Tri-Cone German Silver

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**This guitar was recorded for the Dream Guitars Vol. II CD!!

We have a special treasure here, This is a 1928 National Style 1 Tri-Cone, the real deal. This is an all out, full stop blues machine with legendary tone that all blues fans know and love. It is hard to find an old National in this kind of condition, usually there is rust or the steel is nicked and scratched to within an inch of its life. Not this one, it is in stunning condition. Playability is perfect, whether you are fretting or using a slide this thing plays like a dream.

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2009 Sobell New World Brazilian/European

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Stefan Sobell is a world renowned guitar builder from North Umberland England. His guitars are widely regarded as some of the most responsive and powerful available. This is in part due to the fact that Stefan used to perform regularly and found he needed instruments that would fill up the space of an un amplified room. What Stefan did to solve this problem was design a radically different guitar, resulting in an instrument with the cutting power of an archtop but with the sweetness of tone you find with the flat top guitar. One of the main design features of the Sobell guitar is the heavy lateral arching of the top and back, this helps provide power, and also has the unique benefit of making the guitar extremely comfortable to hold. This is the New World model in Brazilian Rosewood and Spruce. This is exactly what we expect from a Sobell guitar, it has power and clarity, with a wonderful warmth that really sets it apart from the pack.

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2013 Martin OMM John Renbourn Signature Madagascar/Alpine

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This is a therapeutic guitar: play it and your troubles fade like bad dreams. Martin’s John Renbourn signature model comes in an OMM shape with Madagascar Rosewood, Alpine Spruce, and throws a nod to Renbourn’s work in Pentangle with five-pointed stars inlaid across the fretboard. Our Number 76 comes souped up with a K&K pickup, too—there’s not much this guitar can’t handle!

The voice has opened up fantastically since 2013; it plays without effort, and there is some serious heft to the voice; pianistic balance and responsiveness. DADGAD? Yes please! Pure fingerstyle dynamite in the keys of Martin guitars and John Renbourn.

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2003 Martin Custom Shop 00, Brazilian Rosewood/Adirondack Spruce

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This Martin Custom 00 sunburst in Brazilian Rosewood and Red Spruce is going to be hard to beat for blues and ragtime music; it’s got that great bark and warmth which is just right for those styles of music. The frequencies are all even and controlled across the board on this guitar, so if you are a fingerpicker you’re in for a treat! Up and down the neck, tone and playability are even and consistent, just the way we like it. This Martin strays from the pack slightly with is beautiful sunburst, the kind of dark burst we would normally associate with a Gibson-style instrument, but boy does it look good on this Martin!

With more thundering bass under the hood than you’d believe possible, this 00 is perfectly set up with a smooth neck profile, effortless action, and slightly wider nut to lend a little more room to those complex left-hand positions.

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1966 Martin D-35 Brazilian/Sitka

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Here we have a great 1966 Martin D-35 in Sitka Spruce and three piece BaBrazilian Rosewood backand Brazilian Rosewood sides. This is a guitar just raring for the stage or bluegrass jam session, the Brazilian Rosewood ensures a full lush tone with great power and projection, perfectly suited for flatpicking or rhythm strumming. This guitar has the advantage of being well aged and lovingly played, the voice is wide open! The Playability is great for fast bluegrass licks, whether on the stage or off, in a jam session or on your couch this D-35 has the Martin tone and playability to see you happy for many years to come.

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1968 Martin D12-35 Brazilian/Sitka

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Here we have a great 12 string D-35 from the fine folks at C.F. Martin and Co. This D12-35 is made from a three piece Brazilian Rosewood back and sides and Sitka Spruce top. There really is nothing quite like a Martin 12 string, this one has plenty of that famous Martin tone to offer up, whether you are strumming or doing some light fingerpicking, this guitar will rumble on the lows on sparkle on the highs. Playability is a big issue on 12 string guitars, often the action is exceptionally tough on the left hand, not so here, this one plays as easy as its 6 string counterpart.

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1991 Arnold Jimmie Rodgers Weymann Special Mahogany/Adirondack (Red)

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Here we have a show-stopping kind of guitar that is one part art piece, one part tone maker, one part historic relic, and one part just plain fun. That may be more parts than most other guitars, but we promise you it fills all these categories and more!

The Weyman Jimmy Rodgers Special was originally designed back in 1927 and features Rib-Style Binding that we rarely see on guitars these days. Fast forward a few decades and John Arnold felt inspired to build a few of his own, and once you’ve held and played this one yourself it isn’t hard to see why: John’s gorgeous tribute to this unique instrument has a crisp, dry voice that swings big like the heavy hitters of the Pre-War Era. In John’s words, the Weyman Special is, “between a Martin and a Larson Brothers, tonally.”

Renowned both as a luthier and tonewood supplier, John Arnold picked out a great set of hand split Adirondack (Red) Spruce for this guitar that has Medullar Rays across the entire top, so you know it’s as perfect a cut as you can get. The Mahogany back and sides provide that nice midrange drive that so many players crave, and the setup is just perfect – as low as you can go without buzzing, even playing full force!

This particular guitar has accrued quite a bit of renown over the years and has even been featured by the Fretboard Journal! You can see what they had to say about this unique instrument when they interviewed John about the guitar here on their site: http://www.fretboardjournal.com/features/online/interview-john-arnold-and-weymann-jimmie-rodgers-special-model-guitar

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2010 Buscarino Virtuoso Flamed Honduran Mahogany/Sitka

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John Buscarino builds some of the finest guitars around, bar none. John studied with two master Luthiers, Augustine LoPrinzi and Bob Benedetto, those are some serious credentials to be sure. Every guitar that John builds is rare, they are often customized and each instrument is highly different from the last. This one, however, is a truly rare bird. Built from Mahogany with “Plum Pudding” figure and Sitka Spruce, this Virtuoso will knock you out with its looks, this guitar is masterpiece. Tonally this Archtop has everything we have come to expect from John, clarity and power with a warmth that just envelops the player. We found that this Virtuoso can handle all the jazz you can throw at it from swing to gypsy this will fit the bill of whatever you need.

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2012 Greven 000 Palo Escrito/Lutz

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John Greven knows what it takes to make a true vintage style guitar. Taking his experience as shop foreman at Gruhn guitars and applying it to his own builds, John has been successfully building pre war inspired guitars for fifty years. This is a 000 model in Palo Escrito and Lutz Spruce. John’s mission in guitar building is to produce a light, strong, and powerful instrument with a complex tonal range and texture. True to form, this 000 has a potent, cutting voice with a great presence that makes its self known even in a room full of guitars.

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2013 Buscarino Cabaret (Steel) Malaysian Blackwood/Double Sitka Spruce Top

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We have something a little different from John Buscarino here, This is a Steel string version of the famous Cabaret model made in a Double Sitka Spruce top and Malaysian Blackwood. Johns Cabaret model is one of the most successful crossover nylon string guitars you are ever likely to come across, we love them, we knew right away that the Steel string version would be special. One of the most interesting facts about this guitar is that it manages to maintain much of that same tone the original Cabaret is know for, just with extra crispness and depth of tone. The Double top really lends a strong mid range punch that is perfect for blues, but it also works just as well for Jazz and swing.

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2010 Taylor Guitars 12-FRET Grand Concert Indian/Sitka

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This is a great playing, great looking, and most importantly great sounding Taylor 12-fret in East Indian Rosewood and Sitka Spruce. Simply put, this guitar is a joy to pick or strum. The short scale twelve fret neck makes for a nice, easy playability, while the cutaway opens up the higher frets for excellent access to the upper register. Tonally, this is right in the Taylor ballpark: a strong mid range and trebles section accompanied by a controlled but present bass section. This will undoubtedly make someone a great “go to” guitar for recording or playing out.

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1948 Martin D-18 Mahogany/Sitka

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Here we have a 1948 Martin D-18 in Mahagony and Sitka Spruce. The D-18 is one of the heavy hitters in the bluegrass world, it has warmth,power and projection, perfect for leading the lineup. For its age, this guitar has survived the years quite well with only moderate battle wounds and buckle rash. The tone is just as we would expect from a vintage D-18 warm and round, it vibrates excitedly in your lap when a note is plucked. Old Martins are harder and harder to come by, in good shape even more so, don’t miss out on this great chance to own a legend!

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2014 Style 3 Replicon Tricone Nickel plated Brass/Nickel plated Brass

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If you need that vintage national look, feel, and sound but are having a hard time finding the real deal, this National Resophonics Replicon tri-cone is exactly what you need. This a 2014 Style 3 model, but to look at it you would think it was a well loved beauty from the thirties. This Replicon sports full body engraving with tasteful weathering done in the usual playing areas. Tonally this Resonator has the vintage tone to go with its looks, this guitar is sweet! whether you are playing slide or fingerpicking this tri-cone will transport you back to time gone by.

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2013 Olson SJ Brazilian/Cedar

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There are few Luthiers working today as well known as James Olson, Many famous players have his guitars, Phil Keagy, Leo Kottke and James Taylor just to name a few. This is a 2013 Olson SJ model in Cedar and Brazilian Rosewood. The Olson voice is represented in full force here, it is all sweet tones, big full bass with with round and warm trebles. This one is elegantly appointed and in pristine condition.

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2013 Collings DS3 MhA Varnish Mahogany/Adirondack (Red)

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This is one sweet Slope D, we know Collings makes great guitars, but we have to say this one really has a little extra something special going on in the beauty and tone departments. This 2013 DS3 Shaded Top in Adirondack (Red) Spruce and Mahogany is a tone monster. If you have a need to drive a bluegrass jam this guitar will get you there, it has power and projection, while maintaining a warm and sweet side. We found this guitar to be wonderfully versatile it fingerpicks as well as it flatpicks and that makes this a hands down winner in our book.

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2006 Tippin DST, Brazilian Rosewood/Sitka Spruce

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Here we have a 2006 Tippin DST in Sitka Spruce and Brazilian Rosewood. This is a rare body size for Bill, usually we see smaller fingerstyle sized guitars from him. Seeing a bold slope shoulder dread come out of the Tippin workshop is a real treat. This is the most sophisticated slope shoulder dread you are ever likely to see, the appointments are nothing short of perfection and exactly what we expect from Bill. Tonally this is one of the loudest Tippins we have had in the shop in some time, and that’s while excelling at both fingerpicking and flatpicking. The voice is lush and articulate with a controlled presence on every string.

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2007 Martin 000-42M Eric Clapton 94 of 250 Madagascar/Carpathian

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Here we have a Martin 000-42M Eric Clapton in Carpathian Spruce and Madagascar Rosewood. If you know anything about Eric Clapton, you know he is an incredible guitarist with a discerning ear. He won’t let just anyone make a guitar model with his name on it, it has to be a great company and the good folks at Martin are just the people for the job. This 000-42M was modeled after Eric’s personal 1939 000-42, which in its own right is an incredibly famous guitar, big shoes to fill to be sure. We think they hit the ball out of the park with this one, it has the look and feel of that great pre-war 000 that Eric loves so much. Tonally this 000 is perfect for fingerpicking and performs brilliantly even under a flatpick. It has an ideal blend and balance from bass to mids to trebles, with a sublime voice and style.

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