Fairbanks Guitars
F35 Top Burst
Listed at Munich Guitar Company · München, Bayern
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Munich Guitar Company’s site.
$8,481 USD
€7,399 EUR
Last seen 22h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Munich Guitar Company’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Madagascar Rosewood
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Fairbanks Guitars
Dale Fairbanks builds vintage-inspired flat-tops one at a time in Burlington, Vermont, where his shop shares a roof with Circle Strings and Iris Guitars. A Berklee-trained musician turned luthier, he has spent two decades chasing the elusive "thing" that pre-war small-body Gibsons have — the L-00, L-1, Nick Lucas, J-35 and J-45 — and building what he calls the best modern reproductions of the coolest guitars ever made: featherweight, period-voiced instruments with a dry, punchy, country-blues bark. Low volume, high demand, effectively all built to order.
Munich Guitar Company
Munich Guitar Company has been on Franziskanerstraße in München's Haidhausen district since 1992, anchored by one of the largest master-luthier workshops in Europe. The shop pairs a retail floor of curated boutique inventory with the in-house Stevens Custom Shop, where master luthier Till Wollenweber and team have been building handmade guitars under the Stevens name since 1993. The boutique acoustic floor runs unusually deep on Atkin and Furch — including Atkin's aged-finish OM and LG series and Furch's Rainbow Custom Shop and Vintage Pure tiers — alongside Bourgeois, Boucher, Collings, Santa Cruz, and Huss & Dalton. Currency is EUR and they ship across Europe and beyond; for Continental boutique-acoustic shoppers, they're a primary destination.
