Hozen Guitars
Blue Label OM-37
Listed at Brickhouse Guitars · Kitchener, ON · Dealer ref #21031037
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Brickhouse Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Sapele
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- OM
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.73"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About Hozen Guitars
Hozen Guitars are voiced by Ho Zen Yong in Singapore and built by his small team in Guangzhou — a four-person collaborative shop turning out four or five instruments a month, all hand-voiced by Hozen himself. He trained directly under Ervin Somogyi, the modern dean of responsive acoustic voicing, and the Blue Label line carries that lineage forward in his own idiom: a signature lattice bracing pattern, rigid-rim construction, the Manzer wedge for tonal depth in a compact body, soundport, and beveled Laskin armrest. The output volume is unusual for a luthier-led shop — most peers at this level make twenty or thirty a year — which makes the Blue Labels meaningfully more findable than equivalent single-builder work, without the multi-year wait that typically gates Somogyi-school voicing.
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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