Bourgeois Guitars
Aged Tone Slope D Adirondack/Sinker Mahogany (Ex-Display)
Listed at Mak's Guitars · London, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Mak's Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Mak's Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Sinker Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Slope-Shoulder Dread
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1 23/32"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois Guitars are built in Lewiston, Maine, in a shop led by Dana Bourgeois — one of the most quietly influential voicers in acoustic guitar making. Dana spent decades refining his ear before the brand took its current shape, and players who care about tone trade notes about the dry, fundamental "Bourgeois" voice the way wine drinkers talk about terroir. Each top is still hand-voiced by ear rather than built to a fixed spec. Since a 2019 strategic partnership with the Eastman Music Company, Dana has stayed on as an owner and CEO with his team building in Lewiston as before — the partnership widened the brand's reach while the Maine workshop kept doing what it always has.
Mak's Guitars
Mak's Guitars is a family-run independent shop at 56 Rathbone Place in London's Fitzrovia, owned and operated by Mak — a 25-year veteran of the British guitar industry. The catalog is curated rather than comprehensive: a deliberately narrow boutique-acoustic shelf focused on builders most London guitar retailers don't stock. Their British and Irish luthier coverage is the strongest in the Tonewood Atlas index — Atkin (Canterbury), Brook (Devon), McNally (Armagh), and Ralph Bown (York) sit alongside American boutique workhorses Bourgeois and Collings. Open Tuesday through Saturday, with private rooms set up for unhurried playing.
