Leo Posch
Special Deluxe 2022, Shadetop
2022 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Carter Vintage Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Amazon Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2022
Leo Posch
Leo Posch builds in the pre-war Martin tradition from his shop in McLouth, Kansas — hide glue at every major joint, Adirondack spruce tops and bracing, thin lacquer, bone nut and saddle. A busy repair bench, where decades of vintage instruments have passed through his hands, feeds the building: he describes himself as a mix of retro nerd and high-tech geek, happy to use the best idea whether it's four thousand years old or invented yesterday (stainless frets and a two-way truss rod alongside the hot hide glue). He makes only about twenty guitars a year, and is as known among players for his generosity as for the loud, sweet dreadnoughts.
Carter Vintage Guitars
Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.
