Lowden Guitars
Master Series Koa/Adirondack
Listed at The Guitar Sanctuary · McKinney, TX
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Guitar Sanctuary’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Guitar Sanctuary’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Master Grade Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Rosewood
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- F
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars are built in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland — the work of George Lowden, who turned professional in 1974 and has spent fifty years refining a voice unlike anything else in the acoustic world: shimmering, harmonically layered, with a long singing sustain. Much of that character traces to choices George arrived at early — his "dolphin" strut profiles and A-frame bracing, a five-piece neck, a soundbox designed from the physics up rather than after the American dreadnought — and the result is a guitar players recognise instantly. Lowden was fingerstyle shorthand long before Ed Sheeran carried one onto arena stages; Pierre Bensusan, Alex de Grassi, Richard Thompson, and Paul Brady are among those who've made a Lowden their own. Since 2004 it has been a family firm, with George's sons now in the workshop.
The Guitar Sanctuary
The Guitar Sanctuary is a boutique shop in McKinney, Texas — a half hour north of Dallas — that frames itself as "shelter from the retail storm": a curated showroom with high-craft builders front and center and a sales floor staffed to actually know the instruments. The shop is more than retail. Their Performance Academy runs one-on-one lessons across guitar, vocal, piano, and bass with rolling enrollment, and they host live concerts in their own events space — students get stage time alongside touring acts, learning the room as much as the instrument. Their boutique acoustic shelves anchor on Bourgeois (Touchstone, Custom Shop, and Aged Tone Series), Collings, Lowden, and McPherson.
