Fairbanks Guitars
2025 Fairbanks F-50 DeLuxe Adirondack/Birdseye Maple
2025 · Listed at Circle Strings Guitar Shop · South Burlington, VT
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Circle Strings Guitar Shop’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Birdseye Maple
- Neck
- 5 Piece
- Fingerboard
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Body shape
- Jumbo / SJ
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
- Year
- 2025
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.
Circle Strings Guitar Shop
Circle Strings is the rare builder-direct shop in the Atlas — the South Burlington, Vermont storefront for the family of brands led by luthier Adam Buchwald, who came up through Retrofret and Froggy Bottom before setting up his own bench. Two of those in-house lines clear the boutique bar and anchor the floor here: Circle Strings' own commission-built flat-tops and the vintage-minded Fairbanks Guitars, Dale Fairbanks's painstaking takes on golden-age Gibson and Larson Brothers designs. Buchwald also owns Allied Lutherie, the long-running luthier-supply house, giving the shop's builders access to tonewood few makers can source. The Atlas's first Vermont dealer.
