Fairbanks Guitars
F-35 Advanced Slope Rosewood - Sunburst
Listed at Sylvan Music · Santa Cruz, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Sylvan Music’s site.
$9,000
Last seen 11h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Sylvan Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Madagascar Rosewood
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
Fairbanks Guitars
Dale Fairbanks builds vintage-inspired flat-tops one at a time in Burlington, Vermont, where his shop shares a roof with Circle Strings and Iris Guitars. A Berklee-trained musician turned luthier, he has spent two decades chasing the elusive "thing" that pre-war small-body Gibsons have — the L-00, L-1, Nick Lucas, J-35 and J-45 — and building what he calls the best modern reproductions of the coolest guitars ever made: featherweight, period-voiced instruments with a dry, punchy, country-blues bark. Low volume, high demand, effectively all built to order.
Sylvan Music
Sylvan Music has been on Mission Street in Santa Cruz since 1993 — a quietly remarkable shop opened in 1984 by Albert Markasky, who still builds and repairs in the back room. Albert's lineage is part of the shop's character: he apprenticed under David Morse in 1980, then rented a one-car garage with Jeff Traugott in 1983 before Jeff left to join Richard Hoover at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. That Sylvan-to-SCGC thread is a real piece of the Santa Cruz boutique-acoustic story, and the shop's continuing SCGC relationship shows in the inventory: the active Santa Cruz Guitar Company shelf is the deepest single-dealer SC catalog in the atlas, spanning OMs, D Customs, signature models, 50th Anniversary builds, and Custom Shop work. Goodall and Iris each carry a meaningful stack of in-stock boutique acoustics; rotating Lowden inventory rounds it out. The broader catalog runs much wider — Larrivée, Taylor, Duesenberg, Nash, Weber Mandolins, Dusty Strings, plus banjos, dulcimers, violins, and two vintage rooms — but Tonewood Atlas's scope intersects the boutique-acoustic shelf. For California boutique-acoustic shoppers, especially anyone tracking Santa Cruz Guitar Company inventory, Sylvan is the deepest in-person SC catalog on the West Coast plus a meaningful Goodall + Iris destination.
