Lowden Guitars
S-35C AAAA Cocobolo / AAAA Sitka Spruce
Listed at Distinctive Guitar · Milwaukee, WI
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Distinctive Guitar’s site.
$8,235
Last seen 23h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Distinctive Guitar’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Cocobolo
- Neck
- 5 Piece
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- S
- Scale length
- 25.59"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Lowden Guitars
Lowden Guitars are built in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland — the work of George Lowden, who turned professional in 1974 and has spent fifty years refining a voice unlike anything else in the acoustic world: shimmering, harmonically layered, with a long singing sustain. Much of that character traces to choices George arrived at early — his "dolphin" strut profiles and A-frame bracing, a five-piece neck, a soundbox designed from the physics up rather than after the American dreadnought — and the result is a guitar players recognise instantly. Lowden was fingerstyle shorthand long before Ed Sheeran carried one onto arena stages; Pierre Bensusan, Alex de Grassi, Richard Thompson, and Paul Brady are among those who've made a Lowden their own. Since 2004 it has been a family firm, with George's sons now in the workshop.
Distinctive Guitar
Founded in 2007, Distinctive Guitar is a Milwaukee shop — now by-appointment in the Bay View neighborhood — built around custom, hand-spec'd instruments from today's premier electric luthiers, names like Suhr, Knaggs, and Tom Anderson. Its acoustic corner is smaller but genuine: an authorized Lowden dealer whose shelf runs from Wee Lowdens to Master Grade F-50s, with the occasional Goodall or McPherson surfacing among the used and vintage finds. A daily-updated catalog and a spec-it-yourself, order-direct-from-the-builder ethos run throughout.
