Irvin Guitars
SP Signature Parlor Quilted Maple
Listed at Rudy's Music · New York, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Rudy's Music’s site.
$11,995
Last seen 9h ago on dealer site
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Quilted Maple
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Parlor
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
Irvin Guitars
Irvin Guitars is the one-man shop of Wayne Irvin Johnson — he builds under his middle name — in Springfield, Missouri. He came to it the long way round: a Sears Silvertone at six in 1967, a Martin D-28 in 1978 paid for with two summers of hay-field wages, then a 1995 detour into hand-built acoustics that carried him through James Olson's shop and, years later, to Sergei de Jonge's School of Lutherie, where Irvin Guitars began. He offers four shapes — the SJ small jumbo, the 12-fret SP Signature Parlor, the SD dreadnought and the compact SB — and builds slowly by policy, on the conviction that every wood set has a best voice in it and that finding it takes as long as it takes.
Rudy's Music
Rudy's Music opened in 1978 when Rudy Pensa and his wife Fran started a small shop on 48th Street, the legendary Midtown block where New York's instrument dealers stacked floor by floor. Born in Argentina, Rudy is a builder as well as a shopkeeper — the Pensa Custom Shop's MK model, designed with Mark Knopfler in 1985, sits among the most sought-after custom electrics in the world. The shop moved to a Soho flagship at 461 Broome St in 2014 — chosen for its proximity to John D'Angelico's old Kenmare St workshop and the original Martin factory site — and a second location opened in Scarsdale Village in 2018, with inventory unified across both stores. Their boutique acoustic floor leans on Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, Collings, and Goodall alongside the shop's deeper electric, amp, and pedal catalog — one of the few NYC destinations where a buyer can walk in and find a curated high-end acoustic selection.
