Bourgeois Guitars
OMC Soloist Custom Aged Tone Adirondack Spruce and Figured Mahogany with Bevel Used (2020)
2020 · Listed at Down Home Guitars · Frankfort, IL
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Down Home Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Down Home Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2020
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.
Down Home Guitars
Down Home Guitars has been a Frankfort, Illinois fixture since 2008 — set inside the historic Trolley Barn just southwest of Chicago, with a deliberately narrow focus on hand-built acoustic instruments. The shop carries Bourgeois, Collings, Huss & Dalton, Lowden, and Santa Cruz alongside George Lowden Master Series and Hinde, with new and used inventory rotating side by side. Owner Steve Haberichter has tied the shop deeply into the regional bluegrass community: the affiliated Frankfort Bluegrass Festival has won IBMA Event-of-the-Year recognition, and weekly jams Steve hosts at a nearby brewery keep musicians circulating through the doors. The Down Home Music School operates upstairs — more than three hundred lessons a week across six insulated lesson rooms — and a full repair shop covers everything from setups to neck resets. The retail floor, the school, and the festival presence together make the shop a regional anchor for acoustic musicians across the Chicago south suburbs.
