Hozen Guitars
Blue Label Modern Dread Moon - Blackwood
Listed at Corzic Music · Orlando, FL
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Corzic Music’s site.
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Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Swiss Spruce
- Back / Sides
- African Blackwood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- MD
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.73"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
About Hozen Guitars
Hozen Guitars are voiced by Ho Zen Yong in Singapore and built by his small team in Guangzhou — a four-person collaborative shop turning out four or five instruments a month, all hand-voiced by Hozen himself. He trained directly under Ervin Somogyi, the modern dean of responsive acoustic voicing, and the Blue Label line carries that lineage forward in his own idiom: a signature lattice bracing pattern, rigid-rim construction, the Manzer wedge for tonal depth in a compact body, soundport, and beveled Laskin armrest. The output volume is unusual for a luthier-led shop — most peers at this level make twenty or thirty a year — which makes the Blue Labels meaningfully more findable than equivalent single-builder work, without the multi-year wait that typically gates Somogyi-school voicing.
About Corzic Music
Corzic Music is an independent shop in Longwood, in the Orlando metro, founded by Ken Steffey — an engineer and inventor who came to the guitar trade as a luthier. The bench is the shop's center: an in-house PLEK machine drives precision fret work, and Steffey handles delicate restoration on vintage instruments. The floor runs from entry-level to boutique, with authorized acoustic lines including Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, Lowden, and Huss & Dalton alongside Hozen — making Corzic a rare Central Florida destination for high-end flattops.
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