This Froggy P-12 Parlor has a voice much bigger than it’s stature. The tone is clear and articulate with abundant bass for it’s size. It’s of course very comfortable to hold and would also be easy to take with you. The 12 fret neck puts the bridge in the sweet spot, yet the cutaway makes for full access. Don’t underestimate the quality if this Koa, it is superb and with beautiful figure that is getting harder and harder to find. Paired with the Adirondack top you get seemingly unlimited headroom. It also sports a slotted headstock, gold tuners, Turtle Scrimshaw and style #7 inlays.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! what we have here is one serious Dreadnought guitar. This is a top of the line Froggy Bottom D with the works. It is labeled ‘The Wedding Guitar’ and was built by Michael Millard to commemorate his wedding. For starters there is killer Brazilian, tight and quartered with just enough figure to make your eyes glaze over, than there is 42 style top trim, Fleur-de-lis fret markers, etched Waverly tuners, Maple bindings and an abalone backstrip topped off with a scrimshaw heelcap and butt wedge with a ‘moon in the pines’ theme. If you are after a special Dread, something really special, you simply must listen to this one.

Madagascar rosewood is the heir to the tone throne after Brazilian Rosewood and for good reason. It’s rich, full character makes this guitar special and beautiful. Combined here with Adirondack spruce for power as well. The K model from Froggy is a full sized 16″ guitar that is extremely versatile.

This is one to lose track of time with. Our first Fujii guitar in some years, and we’re so grateful to have it in the shop. Keisuke builds flawlessly with a modern eye for aesthetics, curve, and color. A master of the form. This Presentation OM features one of his incredibly detailed mosiac rosettes, carved bridge, plus the contoured and sculpted headstock–for tonewoods, Ancient Japanes Cedar on top with Ancient Keyaki back and sides. The neck is finished to be satin to the touch, with a soft V profile. The result is impossibly smooth, and oh so lovely in hand. The voice is characterized by sweetness and a blooming quality in the bass register; articulate midrange; trebles that linger. Excellent note to note balance.
We see so many incredible guitars come through our shop, but it’s only the rare handful that instantly make a lifelong impression at the first pluck of the strings. This Fujii Presentation OM is one such guitar.

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Here we have a stunning OM in Madagascar Rosewood and Adirondack (Red) Spruce from Fujii Guitars. This is our idea of a well thought out guitar, the lines are clean and elegant, every motif executed to perfection. The rosette on this guitar is breathtaking, it is rare to see so delicate of a design on a steel string guitar, we would usually equate such a thing to a classical, it works wonderfully here. Apart from being thoroughly enjoyable eye candy, this OM keeps pace in the tone department. This is a modern fingerstyle guitar through and through, the bass is round and full while the trebles are fat and melodic, accompanied by a wonderful punch in the mids. We have enjoyed this guitar to the extreme, every one here at DG has oohed and ahhed over this one, it is Incredible.

This 00 from Julian Gaffney is small but mighty. With the energy of a much larger instrument, and the comfort of a much smaller one; this is liable to leave your jaw hanging open. Julian has gone the whole nine yards in his training, starting at Bryan Galloup‘s school, then with Rudy’s Music and later working with Roger Sadowski, before apprenticing with fingerstyle godfather Ervin Somogyi for several years. The pedigree is strong, and his instruments are the sweet fruits of all those years. What a sweet fruit this guitar is, gorgeous Cocobolo back and sides, with a European Spruce top– Dyed burl appointments throughout, astounding inlay work covering the entire body. Such exquisite detail from the burled endgraft, meticulously carved bridge to the perfectly beveled headstock. In one word this guitar is MAGIC.

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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.