Greven Guitars
L-00V Guitar
Listed at Guitar Gallery · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Guitar Gallery’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- L-00
- Scale length
- 24.875"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- Preowned
Greven Guitars
Greven Guitars are built by John Greven, currently in Lacey, Washington — a luthier who started in 1969 and apprenticed at George Gruhn's Nashville shop in the late 60s and early 70s, repairing the pre-war Martins and Gibsons that have shaped his voicing ever since. His work draws explicitly from pre-WW2 forms and uses high-grade materials — Lutz Spruce is a frequent soundboard choice, often paired with Brazilian rosewood or figured maple. Greven closed his Portland shop in 2021 and restarted building from Lacey in 2023; total output is past 2,200 instruments. The shop is less broadly recognized than the larger boutique names, but holds a quiet reputation in the community as one of the most authentic pre-war voicings available from a working luthier today.
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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.