Avenir Guitars
25-AC-CSR-FF Western Red Cedar/Cocobolo Fan Fret!
Listed at The Fretted Buffalo · Buffalo, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fretted Buffalo’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Fretted Buffalo’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Western Red Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Auditorium
- Scale length
- Multi-scale
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
Avenir Guitars
Avenir is the accessible-tier boutique line from Stonebridge Guitars International (SGI) — the Canadian company that spent years as the North American home for Czech builder František Furch before branching into its own designs and collaborations. The guitars are designed in Ontario and Quebec by SGI's in-house team and hand-built in Singapore by luthier Ho Zen Yong, who studied voicing under Ervin Somogyi and individually voices every top. The line leans into the qualities fingerstyle players prize — responsiveness, balance, and dynamic sensitivity — with premium tonewoods, bone nuts and saddles, walnut appointments, Florentine cutaways, and arm bevels across the range. Because the Avenir models are produced as a core line rather than one-off commissions, they bring genuine boutique build quality at a fraction of a full custom's price.
The Fretted Buffalo
The Fretted Buffalo is an online-first dealer based near Buffalo, New York, working from a deliberately small, curated catalog rather than a sprawling floor — instruments chosen, in the shop's words, for tone, craftsmanship, and individuality. Most of their guitars ship across the country, so the business is built around earning a distance buyer's trust: detailed descriptions, professional photography, and demonstration videos on each listing, backed by a seven-day approval period and free insured shipping within the continental US. The boutique acoustic shelf leans into the modern fingerstyle and flatpicking names — Bourgeois (and its Touchstone line), Huss & Dalton, Lowden, Furch, Atkin, and Boucher — alongside Gallagher, Hozen, Avenir, McIlroy, and McNally, with the occasional used Martin or Preston Thompson rounding out the catalog. A small, carefully chosen collection with the online presentation to match.
