Tippin Guitars
2022 Tippin Forte, The Tree Mahogany/Alpine Moonspruce
2022 · Listed at Dream Guitars · Asheville, NC
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Dream Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Dream Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2022
Tippin Guitars
Tippin Guitars are built in Marblehead, Massachusetts by Bill Tippin — a luthier who came to guitar-making through furniture and boat-building, and whose shop has spent the last few decades refining a small line of six flatops oriented around fingerstyle and singer-songwriter players. The Crescendo is the flagship — slightly larger than a 000/12-fret body, suited to most playing styles, and the model Grammy-winning fingerstylist Al Petteway carries as a signature series. Tippin is also one of the few boutique builders who actively takes restoration and repair work on outside instruments, which has built him an unusually deep reputation in the New England and broader US boutique-acoustic community for both his own builds and his ear for other luthiers' work.
Dream Guitars
Dream Guitars sits in Asheville, North Carolina, in what may be the most photographed shop in the boutique acoustic world. Their inventory runs deep across the modern fingerstyle and bluegrass spectrum — Kostal, Bashkin, Goodall, Bourgeois, Pre-War, and many others — and the staff has earned a reputation for knowing each instrument in detail and matching buyers to the right one.
