Hozen Guitars
Blue Label MJ MR
Listed at Brickhouse Guitars · Kitchener, ON · Dealer ref #21071570
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Brickhouse Guitars’ site.
$6,069 USD
CA$8,495 CAD
Last seen 16h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Brickhouse Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Madagascar Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- MJ
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.73"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Hozen Guitars
Hozen Guitars are built in Huadu, Guangzhou, in a small atelier of three or four luthiers led by Ho Zen Yong, who worked largely self-taught before studying voicing with Ervin Somogyi and spending some fifteen years building under the Maestro name. The instruments are built for response above anything else: light and quick, louder than their size suggests, with deep bass and sparkling top held in balance rather than one flattering the other. He is sceptical of visual wood grading and of the prestige attached to Brazilian rosewood, choosing backs and sides for how they answer instead — which is why ziricote, cocobolo and African blackwood turn up on his instruments where much of the market reaches for Indian rosewood. Comfort is treated as engineering: a wedge, an armrest, and a soundport turned back toward the player.
Brickhouse Guitars
Brickhouse Guitars operates out of a converted brick house on Lancaster Street in Kitchener, Ontario — the building's history is the shop's name. The catalog runs across two distinct spaces: a Main Level store carrying the broader retail mix (Godin family acoustics, Furch's accessible-price series, Recording King, Washburn) and an Upper Luthier Gallery upstairs, by-appointment only, where the boutique work lives. The Upper Gallery is anchored by the deepest Furch and Boucher SGI Collection inventory in North America, paired with an unusually consistent stockist relationship with the Quebec luthier community — Michel Pellerin, Julien Sublet, Dontcho Ivanov, Théo Kazourian, and Bouchereau all appear regularly. Sheldon Schwartz and TreeHouse Guitars from Ontario, Ciarán McNally from Northern Ireland, and Hozen's tiered line round out the boutique slate. Pre-owned inventory rotates through Santa Cruz, Collings, Bourgeois, and other high-end American shops. The shop also operates Octane Studios at The Octave Music Centre, a sister recording space where the shop's video demos are recorded — useful context for shoppers comparing online demos against the live instrument. For shoppers focused on Furch, Boucher, or the Quebec luthier community, Brickhouse is the deepest single-dealer catalog in Canada.
