Preston Thompson Guitars
Thompson D-MA Natural Gloss Finish Acoustic Guitar
Listed at The Acoustic Shoppe · Springfield, MO · Dealer ref #2175
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Acoustic Shoppe’s site.
$7,100
Last seen 11h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Acoustic Shoppe’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Preston Thompson Guitars
Preston Thompson Guitars build handmade flattops in Sisters, Oregon — the shop Preston Thompson founded after decades studying pre-war Martin construction. Preston came up under Charles Fox at his Vermont guitar school in the 1970s and then through Randy Wood's Old Time Pickin' Parlor in Nashville, but his defining education was the years he spent with bluegrass great Charles Sawtelle measuring his collection of pre-war Martin dreadnoughts — measurements that still drive the shop's bracing patterns and top graduations today. The instruments were chosen as winner's prize at the National Flatpicking Championships three years running, and players including Eric Bibb and Sawtelle himself put them on records. Preston passed away in 2019, and the team he had spent years training continued the work in the same Sisters shop using the same methods and the same hands.
The Acoustic Shoppe
The Acoustic Shoppe is a family-owned shop in Springfield, Missouri, run by The Chapmans — a touring bluegrass family. Every serial-numbered instrument gets a 23-point professional setup and individual high-resolution photography before going up, so the listing shows the specific guitar you'd be buying. Their boutique acoustic shelves run deep on Bourgeois and Boucher, alongside Furch, Atkin, Gallagher, and McPherson — a small-shop alternative to the catalog dealers.
