Tippin Guitars
000-12T Guitar with 3 piece Back
Listed at Guitar Gallery · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Guitar Gallery’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Guitar Gallery’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Asian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
Tippin Guitars
Tippin Guitars are built in Marblehead, Massachusetts by Bill Tippin — a luthier who came to guitar-making through furniture and boat-building, and whose shop has spent the last few decades refining a small line of six flatops oriented around fingerstyle and singer-songwriter players. The Crescendo is the flagship — slightly larger than a 000/12-fret body, suited to most playing styles, and the model Grammy-winning fingerstylist Al Petteway carries as a signature series. Tippin is also one of the few boutique builders who actively takes restoration and repair work on outside instruments, which has built him an unusually deep reputation in the New England and broader US boutique-acoustic community for both his own builds and his ear for other luthiers' work.
Guitar Gallery
Guitar Gallery is a Nashville-based online dealer specializing in fine handmade acoustic guitars, run out of South Nashville's Berry Hill music district. Their authorized-builder roster has the breadth few US shops match — Bashkin, Beauregard, Borges, Froggy Bottom, Greven, Lowden, McPherson, Olson, Osthoff, Petros, Sexauer, Tippin, Wingert, and dozens more, alongside a deep tail of vintage and used inventory from harder-to-find names like Traugott, Sobell, Klein, Wayne Henderson, and Dudenbostel. Every listing carries a consistent in-house recording — Shure SM81 or Neumann TLM 102 microphone, no EQ, no effects, mic placement held constant — so buyers can compare what each specific guitar actually sounds like rather than how it was captured. The active shelf rotates broadly across that roster rather than running deep on any single builder; the catalog as a whole is wider than it is tall.