Bashkin Guitars
Placencia OM Guitar
Listed at Guitar Gallery · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Guitar Gallery’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Guitar Gallery’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Italian Spruce
- Back / Sides
- African Blackwood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- Preowned
Bashkin Guitars
Bashkin Guitars come out of Fort Collins, Colorado — a one-builder shop founded by Michael Bashkin in 1998. Michael's path to lutherie ran through tropical forestry: graduate work at Colorado State, post-graduate research at Duke, and time teaching forest ecology in Belize before he turned fully to guitars. That science background runs through the work — he reads wood the way few builders do, and the voicing reflects it. He trained under Ervin Somogyi and Harry Fleishman, two of the most influential figures in modern American boutique acoustic guitar making, and his four core models — OM, JM, SJ, and OO — carry that lineage forward in his own hand. The build queue is measured in years. He also hosts Luthier on Luthier, a long-form podcast on the craft itself.
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Guitar Gallery
Guitar Gallery is a Nashville-based online dealer specializing in fine handmade acoustic guitars, run out of South Nashville's Berry Hill music district. Their authorized-builder roster has the breadth few US shops match — Bashkin, Beauregard, Borges, Froggy Bottom, Greven, Lowden, McPherson, Olson, Osthoff, Petros, Sexauer, Tippin, Wingert, and dozens more, alongside a deep tail of vintage and used inventory from harder-to-find names like Traugott, Sobell, Klein, Wayne Henderson, and Dudenbostel. Every listing carries a consistent in-house recording — Shure SM81 or Neumann TLM 102 microphone, no EQ, no effects, mic placement held constant — so buyers can compare what each specific guitar actually sounds like rather than how it was captured. The active shelf rotates broadly across that roster rather than running deep on any single builder; the catalog as a whole is wider than it is tall.