Froggy Bottom Guitars
K Deluxe in Walnut & Adirondack Red Spruce
2018 · Listed at The Six-String Collective · London, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Six-String Collective’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Six-String Collective’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.25"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2018
Froggy Bottom Guitars
Froggy Bottom Guitars are built in Newfane, Vermont, by a five-person shop Michael Millard has led since 1970 — when he built the first one in his Lower East Side apartment while serving as shop foreman at Gurian Guitars in New York City. The shop never grew by choice. Today's team builds around 75 instruments a year, every one custom-spec'd to an individual player and built face-down in the classical-guitar tradition Michael learned from Gurian. The Froggy Bottom signature is more in the methodology than the silhouette: from thirty feet away the guitars look like traditional steel-strings, but every component of every build is varied to a specific player's needs, bracing voiced by ear and necks finish-carved by hand. Build queues run into years; Froggy Bottom buyers tend to know exactly what they're going for and find it nowhere else.
The Six-String Collective
The Six-String Collective is a young UK dealer, launched in 2024 as a home for luthier-built guitars from British and international makers. It works as much like a curated consignment marketplace as a traditional shop — bringing together buyers, sellers, and the luthiers themselves — and its founders came to it from more than a decade in the instrument trade, several of those years at the forefront of the boutique world. The catalog pairs established names like Tom Sands, Lowden, Collings, Santa Cruz, and McPherson with a strong bench of British and European builders — Taran, Ralph Bown, O'Gorman, Oska Burman — several of them low-volume makers whose instruments rarely reach the open market. New and pre-owned instruments sit side by side, with the emphasis on personal service.
