Kraut Guitars
Raymond Kraut Desert Ironwood 00
Listed at The Music Emporium · Lexington, MA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Music Emporium’s site.
$35,000
Last seen 15h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from The Music Emporium’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Moon Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Desert Ironwood
- Fingerboard
- Desert Ironwood
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Kraut Guitars
Raymond Kraut builds in the Sonoran Desert north of Tucson, in a workshop he constructed himself at the foot of the Tortolita Mountains. A Roberto-Venn graduate and the third apprentice of Ervin Somogyi, he has spent two decades pursuing what he calls the optimally responsive guitar — lightly built, individually voiced small-body steel-strings that answer the quietest touch. Kraut is equally a visual artist: a lover of art and architecture whose Nouveau designs bring minimalist lines, geometric inlay, and constellations of small soundports to instruments that remain traditional in voice. He builds a small number of guitars each year on three platforms — a modified dreadnought, an OM, and a 00 — each designed as a single unified whole.
The Music Emporium
The Music Emporium has been a Boston-area institution for decades — a Lexington, Massachusetts shop with one of the deepest curated boutique acoustic catalogs in the country. They're the kind of dealer where Bourgeois, Olson, Lowden, and Collings sit on the wall like that's a normal day, and where working players and serious collectors have done business in person and at distance for years.
