Pellerin Guitars
Small Jumbo CW Left-handed
Listed at Brickhouse Guitars · Kitchener, ON
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Brickhouse Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Western Red Cedar
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Jumbo / SJ
- Scale length
- 25"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
About Pellerin Guitars
Pellerin Guitars come out of Thetford Mines, Quebec — a two-builder shop run by Michel Pellerin and partner François C. Paradis, who have produced about 250 guitars over twenty-five years. Michel trained at the École Nationale de Lutherie du Québec in 1998 and took Ervin Somogyi's voicing class in 2011; the work since carries both lineages. Two things stand out: an unusually deep harp-guitar practice (6-, 13-, and 21-string builds, the latter at $29,500 base) and a strict salvaged-wood-only policy for soundboards — Sitka spruce, Western red cedar, Alaskan yellow cedar — pulled from forest sources where the wood has aged fifty years or more in place, cells emptied and resins crystallized. Forum descriptions tend toward "grand piano" and "a mix of Goodall and Somogyi tones." Current wait is twenty-six months.
About Brickhouse Guitars
Brickhouse Guitars operates out of a converted brick house on Lancaster Street in Kitchener, Ontario — the building's history is the shop's name. The catalog runs across two distinct spaces: a Main Level store carrying the broader retail mix (Godin family acoustics, Furch's accessible-price series, Recording King, Washburn) and an Upper Luthier Gallery upstairs, by-appointment only, where the boutique work lives. The Upper Gallery is anchored by the deepest Furch and Boucher SGI Collection inventory in North America, paired with an unusually consistent stockist relationship with the Quebec luthier community — Michel Pellerin, Julien Sublet, Dontcho Ivanov, Théo Kazourian, and Bouchereau all appear regularly. Sheldon Schwartz and TreeHouse Guitars from Ontario, Ciarán McNally from Northern Ireland, and Hozen's tiered line round out the boutique slate. Pre-owned inventory rotates through Santa Cruz, Collings, Bourgeois, and other high-end American shops. The shop also operates Octane Studios at The Octave Music Centre, a sister recording space where the shop's video demos are recorded — useful context for shoppers comparing online demos against the live instrument. For shoppers focused on Furch, Boucher, or the Quebec luthier community, Brickhouse is the deepest single-dealer catalog in Canada.
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