Hozen Guitars
Blue Label MJ Swiss Moon Spruce/Cocobolo Fan Fret Updated Pics!
Listed at The Fretted Buffalo · Buffalo, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fretted Buffalo’s site.
$7,749
Last seen 16h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Fretted Buffalo’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Moon Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Cocobolo
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- MJ
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.73"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
Hozen Guitars
Hozen Guitars are built in Huadu, Guangzhou, in a small atelier of three or four luthiers led by Ho Zen Yong, who worked largely self-taught before studying voicing with Ervin Somogyi and spending some fifteen years building under the Maestro name. The instruments are built for response above anything else: light and quick, louder than their size suggests, with deep bass and sparkling top held in balance rather than one flattering the other. He is sceptical of visual wood grading and of the prestige attached to Brazilian rosewood, choosing backs and sides for how they answer instead — which is why ziricote, cocobolo and African blackwood turn up on his instruments where much of the market reaches for Indian rosewood. Comfort is treated as engineering: a wedge, an armrest, and a soundport turned back toward the player.
The Fretted Buffalo
The Fretted Buffalo is an online-first dealer based near Buffalo, New York, working from a deliberately small, curated catalog rather than a sprawling floor — instruments chosen, in the shop's words, for tone, craftsmanship, and individuality. Most of their guitars ship across the country, so the business is built around earning a distance buyer's trust: detailed descriptions, professional photography, and demonstration videos on each listing, backed by a seven-day approval period and free insured shipping within the continental US. The boutique acoustic shelf leans into the modern fingerstyle and flatpicking names — Bourgeois (and its Touchstone line), Huss & Dalton, Lowden, Furch, Atkin, and Boucher — alongside Gallagher, Hozen, Avenir, McIlroy, and McNally, with the occasional used Martin or Preston Thompson rounding out the catalog. A small, carefully chosen collection with the online presentation to match.
