Gallagher Guitars
Ragtime Special Acoustic 2019
2019 · Listed at Miami Vintage Guitars · Hialeah, FL
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Miami Vintage Guitars’ site.
$3,600
Last seen 18h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Miami Vintage Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Auditorium
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2019
Gallagher Guitars
Gallagher Guitars has built handmade flattop acoustics in Wartrace, Tennessee since J.W. Gallagher made his first one in 1965. The shop became internationally known after Doc Watson took home a G-50 in 1969 — the instrument he came to call "Ol' Hoss" — and played it on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's 1972 Will The Circle Be Unbroken, the recording where Merle Travis said it "rings like a bell." The company has passed through three generations of Gallaghers and, since 2019, has been carried forward by David and Reina Mathis using the same patterns, molds, and jigs J.W. built. Production stays small — about three months and 70 to 80 hours of bench work per guitar, with the same workmanship across every model regardless of trim level.
Miami Vintage Guitars
A shop run by players, trading since 2007 and organised into rooms rather than aisles — vintage, archtop and jazz, electric, and one given over to Jerry Garcia. The vintage and electric side is what Miami knows them for, and it won them the New Times' best-instrument-shop nod in 2014. The acoustic room is quieter and more particular than the name suggests: a standing Santa Cruz bench, Huss & Dalton alongside it, and older boutique pieces that surface and move on.
