Circa Guitars
2024 Circa 000 Cutaway, Royal Macassar Ebony/German Spruce
2024 · Listed at Dream Guitars · Asheville, NC
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Dream Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Dream Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- German Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Ebony
- Neck
- Maple
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 13/16"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- New
- Year
- 2024
Circa Guitars
John Slobod builds vintage-inspired flat-tops in South Portland, Maine, under the name Circa Guitars — a one-person shop devoted to the pre-war Martin tradition. He learned the craft at Canada's Timeless Instruments in 1993, then spent years at Dana Bourgeois's Pantheon Guitars carving necks and doing the final voicing on close to four thousand guitars before launching his own line in 1998. Circa's instruments follow pre-war Martin conventions — 0, 00, 000, OM, and dreadnought shapes in 12- and 14-fret configurations — built one at a time from traditional materials and methods. Slobod works closely with each client to dial in the voice and feel of the guitar, and his work is sought out by some of the finest fingerstyle players around.
Dream Guitars
Dream Guitars sits in Asheville, North Carolina, in what may be the most photographed shop in the boutique acoustic world. Their inventory runs deep across the modern fingerstyle and bluegrass spectrum — Kostal, Bashkin, Goodall, Bourgeois, Pre-War, and many others — and the staff has earned a reputation for knowing each instrument in detail and matching buyers to the right one.
