Bourgeois Guitars
2017 Bourgeois Slop D - The Standard Presentation Macassar Ebony
2017 · Listed at Willcutt Guitars · Lexington, KY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willcutt Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Macassar Ebony
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Slope-Shoulder Dread
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2017
Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois Guitars are built in Lewiston, Maine, in a shop led by Dana Bourgeois — one of the most quietly influential voicers in acoustic guitar making. Dana spent decades refining his ear before the brand took its current shape, and players who care about tone trade notes about the dry, fundamental "Bourgeois" voice the way wine drinkers talk about terroir. Each top is still hand-voiced by ear rather than built to a fixed spec. Since a 2019 strategic partnership with the Eastman Music Company, Dana has stayed on as an owner and CEO with his team building in Lewiston as before — the partnership widened the brand's reach while the Maine workshop kept doing what it always has.
Willcutt Guitars
Willcutt Guitars has run out of Lexington, Kentucky's Beaumont Center since the mid-1990s, operating as one of the larger online guitar dealers in the country. The catalog runs wide across Fender, Gibson, PRS, Martin, and Taylor, with substantial custom-shop content from each — but the boutique-acoustic shelf sits at the heart of the shop, anchored by an unusually deep Collings inventory that includes much of the current production lineup plus a steady rotation of pre-owned and signature models. Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, and Larrivée round out the acoustic floor, with periodic Preston Thompson, McPherson, Goodall, Lowden, and Pre-War listings. For Collings shoppers in particular, Willcutt is one of the deepest single-dealer catalogs in the US.
