Circle Strings
Salvage OM Burst, Sinker Sitka/Old Mahogany
2026 · Listed at Circle Strings Guitar Shop · South Burlington, VT
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Circle Strings Guitar Shop’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sinker Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
- Year
- 2026
Circle Strings
Circle Strings is the custom acoustic shop of Adam Buchwald, who founded it in 2005 and has since grown it into a team workshop in South Burlington, Vermont. Buchwald came up through vintage repair — studying under Bob Jones and running the bench at Brooklyn's Retrofret — before a stint building at Froggy Bottom, and that grounding shows in flattops that sit largely in the Martin tradition while ranging into mandolins, tenor guitars, and one-off, customer-driven designs. The work blends CNC precision with handwork, quality checked at every station. Circle Strings now anchors a small family of Vermont brands under Buchwald — the more affordable Iris Guitar Company, Dale Fairbanks' Fairbanks Guitars, the Allied Lutherie tonewood business, and the group's own retail shop.
Circle Strings Guitar Shop
Circle Strings is the rare builder-direct shop in the Atlas — the South Burlington, Vermont storefront for the family of brands led by luthier Adam Buchwald, who came up through Retrofret and Froggy Bottom before setting up his own bench. Two of those in-house lines clear the boutique bar and anchor the floor here: Circle Strings' own commission-built flat-tops and the vintage-minded Fairbanks Guitars, Dale Fairbanks's painstaking takes on golden-age Gibson and Larson Brothers designs. Buchwald also owns Allied Lutherie, the long-running luthier-supply house, giving the shop's builders access to tonewood few makers can source. The Atlas's first Vermont dealer.
