Baranik Guitars
CX 2008, Natural
2008 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Carter Vintage Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Carter Vintage Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.79"
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2008
Baranik Guitars
Mike Baranik builds in Templeton, California, where a long waitlist has followed his acoustics since the late 1990s. A 1993 graduate of Arizona's Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery who learned flat-top making in Phoenix before going out on his own, he came to acoustics at what he calls the start of the golden age of lutherie — taking his first two flat-tops to a 1997 California festival and deciding on the spot to build for a living. His small-body steel-strings — a parlor, a concert, and a 00/OM — are voiced for responsiveness and nuance. Baranik is also a celebrated builder of original solidbody electrics under the same name, but on the Atlas it's the acoustic side that surfaces.
Carter Vintage Guitars
Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.
