Lowden Guitars
S-20c Sitka Spruce/Mahogany
Listed at Some Neck Guitars · Dublin, Leinster
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Some Neck Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- 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.
Some Neck Guitars
Some Neck Guitars is a Dublin guitar shop on Dean Street in The Liberties, the city's first dedicated vintage and modern second-hand store, operating about a decade and built around an in-house luthier workshop. The floor mixes vintage and used electric and acoustic guitars alongside fresh inventory from a curated set of builders, with a Lowden shelf that runs unusually deep — S, F, and signature series across both new and pre-owned, often with rarer woods. They serve everyone from hobbyists to international touring acts and ship worldwide, and for boutique-acoustic shoppers in the Republic of Ireland, they're the destination shop.
