2018 OMC

CR Guitars is a by-appointment showroom in Rhinebeck, New York, in the Hudson Valley a couple of hours north of the city, run by career guitarist Craig Snyder with Renée Snyder. Snyder spent decades as a session and touring player and as an R&D collaborator whose ear builders sought out for design input — and CR grew directly out of that. Rather than stock a broad catalog, he works with a small circle of makers he knows personally, often ordering instruments to his own exacting spec. The acoustic roster runs to elite, low-production luthiers — Manzer, Matsuda, Kostal, Greenfield, Kraut, Marchione, and Jang alongside Lowden and Collings. Inventory is small and may turn quickly; this is a curated salon, not a catalog floor.