Atkin Guitars
ATKIN J43 2025 Slope Shoulder Dreadnought
2025 · Listed at Maple Street Guitars · Atlanta, GA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Maple Street Guitars’ site.
$4,200
Last seen 6h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Maple Street Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Sitka
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Santos Rosewood
- Body shape
- J
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1 11/16"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
- Year
- 2025
Atkin Guitars
Atkin Guitars are built in Canterbury, England, founded by Alister Atkin in 1995. What started as a one-man bench has grown into one of the UK's leading boutique acoustic builders — a sixteen-person shop making roughly 750 guitars a year, every one of them hand-built. Their reputation is anchored in pre-war Martin and Gibson replicas (the slope-shouldered "Nineteen" is a flagship), but the catalog spans original designs, an electric line that joined the family in 2020, and a custom shop that builds whatever a player can dream up. The signature finish is an aged nitrocellulose lacquer developed over thirty years — soft, light, designed to check and patina naturally rather than stay perfect, mirroring how a lightly-used vintage instrument ages. Tops have been baked since 2011 for stability and the kind of resin-crystallized character usually associated with old wood. The player roster reads like a UK songwriters' room: Richard Hawley, Robert Plant, Graham Coxon, Kris Drever, Eddi Reader, Elbow.
Maple Street Guitars
Maple Street Guitars has been operating in Atlanta's Buckhead district for decades — a hands-on shop with one of the deepest boutique acoustic floors in the Southeast. Walking through their inventory at any given month surfaces serious depth on Collings alongside Santa Cruz, Lowden, Goodall, Bourgeois, Furch, and Larrivée's top-tier work — a curatorial mix that more closely resembles a Northeast destination shop than its market would predict. They run new and used inventory side by side, with the used catalog often including hard-to-find vintage examples from the same builders.
