Flammang Guitars
2021 Flammang N35-XL Left Handed Steel String Acoustic Guitar
2021 · Listed at Gryphon Stringed Instruments · Palo Alto, CA
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Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Honduran Mahogany
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1 7/8"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2021
Flammang Guitars
David Flammang builds custom flat-tops in Greene, Iowa, with a stated focus on one thing above all: a strong, rich, well-balanced voice. His small catalog spans the familiar boutique body sizes — Grand Concert, OO, jumbo and his EL and C-series models, including 12-strings — drawing on pre-war design with a refined modern hand, in tonewoods from torrefied red spruce and Lutz over Honduran mahogany to Brazilian and Indian rosewood. The work is carried by some of the country's most selective acoustic dealers.
Gryphon Stringed Instruments
Gryphon Stringed Instruments began in a Palo Alto garage in 1969, building steel-string guitars, F-style mandolins, and banjo necks. Repair work overtook luthiery by 1972, and a 1973 storefront made the retail-plus-repair shift permanent. The shop also runs as a longstanding music school — Carol McComb's Folk Guitar Workshops anchor an instruction calendar that operates alongside the retail floor. Mainstays remain acoustic guitars, mandolins, and banjos, with a deliberate share of the catalog given to small companies and individual makers, and no commissioned sales staff.
