Circa Guitars
D-18 (USED, 2013)
Listed at The Music Emporium · Lexington, MA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Music Emporium’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Music Emporium’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
Circa Guitars
John Slobod builds vintage-inspired flat-tops in South Portland, Maine, under the name Circa Guitars — a one-person shop devoted to the pre-war Martin tradition. He learned the craft at Canada's Timeless Instruments in 1993, then spent years at Dana Bourgeois's Pantheon Guitars carving necks and doing the final voicing on close to four thousand guitars before launching his own line in 1998. Circa's instruments follow pre-war Martin conventions — 0, 00, 000, OM, and dreadnought shapes in 12- and 14-fret configurations — built one at a time from traditional materials and methods. Slobod works closely with each client to dial in the voice and feel of the guitar, and his work is sought out by some of the finest fingerstyle players around.
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.
