JOI Guitars
Custom JM by Reuben Forsland, Moon Spruce / Waterfall Bubinga, 2016 [USED]
Listed at The Twelfth Fret · Toronto, ON
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Twelfth Fret’s site.
$8,545 USD
CA$12,000 CAD
Last seen 23h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Twelfth Fret’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Moon Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Figured Bubinga
- Neck
- Figured Bubinga
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Jumbo / SJ
- Scale length
- 25.75"
- Nut width
- 1.81"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
JOI Guitars
From a one-room studio on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, Reuben Forsland builds JOI Guitars one instrument at a time — guitars conceived as pieces of art as much as players' tools. A master carpenter before he was a luthier, Forsland pairs traditional construction and his own Ellipse bracing system with rare, story-carrying materials: "The Tree" mahogany, ancient Sitka spruce, wood reclaimed from Jimi Hendrix's childhood home. Nearly every guitar is a one-off, built around a story. Collectible, characterful, and unmistakably personal.
The Twelfth Fret
The Twelfth Fret has been a Toronto institution since 1977, when Grant MacNeill and Dan Charman opened it on Kingston Road; they moved to their current east-end Danforth Avenue building in 2000. The shop describes itself as "instrument builders who also sell guitars" — a six-luthier workshop is the spine of the business, and the retail catalog grew around it. Boutique acoustics arrived in the 1990s, and today's catalog leans heavy on Canadian-made Boucher and Larrivée Master Series alongside Collings, Huss & Dalton, Lowden, and Bourgeois — a rare in-person destination for Quebec and Ontario boutique builds.
