Bashkin Guitars
Michael Bashkin OM
Listed at Essential Guitars · Hudson Valley, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Essential Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Essential Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- Multi-scale
- Nut width
- 1.82"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
About Bashkin Guitars
Bashkin Guitars come out of Fort Collins, Colorado — a one-builder shop founded by Michael Bashkin in 1998. Michael's path to lutherie ran through tropical forestry: graduate work at Colorado State, post-graduate research at Duke, and time teaching forest ecology in Belize before he turned fully to guitars. That science background runs through the work — he reads wood the way few builders do, and the voicing reflects it. He trained under Ervin Somogyi and Harry Fleishman, two of the most influential figures in modern American boutique acoustic guitar making, and his four core models — OM, JM, SJ, and OO — carry that lineage forward in his own hand. The build queue is measured in years. He also hosts Luthier on Luthier, a long-form podcast on the craft itself.
About Essential Guitars
Essential Guitars is a by-appointment dealer in New York's Hudson Valley, founded in 2024 to deal in rare, unique, and otherwise high-quality instruments rather than a standing catalog. The selection is small, eclectic, and quick to turn over — boutique steel-string flat-tops from the likes of Bashkin, Kiso Klein, Keystone, Michaud Made, and G.R. Bear surface alongside a wider mix of archtops and other curiosities, much of it rarely seen elsewhere. Essential ships worldwide and actively buys, trades, and consigns. A curator's eye, not a showroom floor.
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