Huss & Dalton
DS Slope-Shouldered Dreadnought Mahogany Acoustic Guitar - New
Listed at Gryphon Stringed Instruments · Palo Alto, CA
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- DS
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 23/32"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Huss & Dalton
Huss & Dalton Guitar Company has built acoustic guitars in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia since 1995, when Jeff Huss and Mark Dalton founded the shop. The catalog runs from steel-string flat-tops through a smaller line of electric guitars, with a longstanding focus on the pre-war American flat-top tradition — the Crossroads, the T-OO, and the TD series among the recognizable builds. Brian Dickel, a long-time member of the team, took over ownership in 2021, and the shop continues building under the same craftsmanship principles.
Gryphon Stringed Instruments
Gryphon Stringed Instruments began in a Palo Alto garage in 1969, building steel-string guitars, F-style mandolins, and banjo necks. Repair work overtook luthiery by 1972, and a 1973 storefront made the retail-plus-repair shift permanent. The shop also runs as a longstanding music school — Carol McComb's Folk Guitar Workshops anchor an instruction calendar that operates alongside the retail floor. Mainstays remain acoustic guitars, mandolins, and banjos, with a deliberate share of the catalog given to small companies and individual makers, and no commissioned sales staff.