Lowden Guitars
S-35 12 Fret Cedar/Walnut
Listed at The Fretted Buffalo · Buffalo, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fretted Buffalo’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Fretted Buffalo’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- S
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars come from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland — a small town and a fifty-year obsession. George Lowden started building in 1974 and spent decades refining a voice that sounds like nothing else in the acoustic world: shimmering, layered, with sustain that seems to keep going long after a chord should have settled. Lowden became the fingerstyle player's shorthand long before Ed Sheeran put one on every stage; Pierre Bensusan, Eric Roche, and Alex de Grassi all spoke about Lowdens the way other players talk about their first car. The mystique is partly the geography, partly the sound, and entirely real.
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.