Goodall Guitars
000 12 Fret Macassar Ebony AAA Italian Spruce 2019
2019 · Listed at The Fellowship of Acoustics · Dedemsvaart, Overijssel
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fellowship of Acoustics’ site.
Photos hot-linked from The Fellowship of Acoustics’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Italian Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Macassar Ebony
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2019
Goodall Guitars
Goodall Guitars are built in Sparta, Tennessee by a father-son shop — James Goodall, his son Luke, and Jean Goodall running the business side. James built his first guitar in San Diego in 1972 as a self-taught seascape painter who traded an oil painting for the tonewoods (this was before guitar-construction books existed; he learned from scratch). Fifty-plus years later, the operation has stayed small and family-run, building hand-made instruments across thirteen body sizes and five series. The Goodall design language favors restrained appointments — the woods carry the visual weight, and the brand's reputation lives in player-to-player word-of-mouth more than marketing.
The Fellowship of Acoustics
The Fellowship of Acoustics (TFOA) is a destination acoustic shop in Dedemsvaart, eastern Netherlands, run by Rudi Bults and his family since 2001 — what started as a barn-side business has grown into one of Europe's largest specialty guitar shops, housed since 2015 in a former town hall ("Villa Dina") that holds upwards of a thousand guitars. From the start, TFOA bet on selling worldwide in English from a small Dutch town, focused entirely on quality handmade instruments rather than mass-market volume. The villa houses retail, a luthier workshop with their "Gold Standard" setup and a PLEK machine for precision fret work, plus a small theatre and a music school under the same roof. Their boutique acoustic shelves run deep on Bourgeois, Collings, Santa Cruz, Lowden, Furch, Goodall, and Huss & Dalton, alongside a strong vintage and consigned catalog.
