Atkin Essential OOO 2025

About Atkin Guitars

Atkin Guitars are built in Canterbury, England, founded by Alister Atkin in 1995. What started as a one-man bench has grown into one of the UK's leading boutique acoustic builders — a sixteen-person shop making roughly 750 guitars a year, every one of them hand-built. Their reputation is anchored in pre-war Martin and Gibson replicas (the slope-shouldered "Nineteen" is a flagship), but the catalog spans original designs, an electric line that joined the family in 2020, and a custom shop that builds whatever a player can dream up. The signature finish is an aged nitrocellulose lacquer developed over thirty years — soft, light, designed to check and patina naturally rather than stay perfect, mirroring how a lightly-used vintage instrument ages. Tops have been baked since 2011 for stability and the kind of resin-crystallized character usually associated with old wood. The player roster reads like a UK songwriters' room: Richard Hawley, Robert Plant, Graham Coxon, Kris Drever, Eddi Reader, Elbow. …

About Munich Guitar Company

Munich Guitar Company has been on Franziskanerstraße in München's Haidhausen district since 1992, anchored by one of the largest master-luthier workshops in Europe. The shop pairs a retail floor of curated boutique inventory with the in-house Stevens Custom Shop, where master luthier Till Wollenweber and team have been building handmade guitars under the Stevens name since 1993. The boutique acoustic floor runs unusually deep on Atkin and Furch — including Atkin's aged-finish OM and LG series and Furch's Rainbow Custom Shop and Vintage Pure tiers — alongside Bourgeois, Boucher, Collings, Santa Cruz, and Huss & Dalton. Currency is EUR and they ship across Europe and beyond; for Continental boutique-acoustic shoppers, they're a primary destination.

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