Dudenbostel Guitars
12-Fret 000-28 Style Koa & Engelmann
Listed at The Music Emporium · Lexington, MA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Music Emporium’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Engelmann Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Dudenbostel Guitars
Dudenbostel Guitars come out of Maryville, Tennessee — a one-builder shop run by Lynn Dudenbostel, who builds both flat-top guitars and mandolins. Lynn — known to the boutique community as "Dude" — is best known for pre-war Martin replicas: herringbone-trimmed 28-style 00s, 000s, and OMs in Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce. He works on roughly three instruments at a time and rotates between phases — months of mandolin work, then months of guitars. The mandolin range runs from snakehead A-styles to full F-styles in varnish finish. Tonewood patience is the through-line: Brazilian rosewood sets held quietly for fifteen years until the right commission justifies them. Fretboard Journal calls the work "some of the most coveted acoustic instruments built today." Multi-year wait list.
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The Music Emporium
The Music Emporium has been a Boston-area institution for decades — a Lexington, Massachusetts shop with one of the deepest curated boutique acoustic catalogs in the country. They're the kind of dealer where Bourgeois, Olson, Lowden, and Collings sit on the wall like that's a normal day, and where working players and serious collectors have done business in person and at distance for years.