Bashkin Guitars
OM-C, 2020, Natural
2020 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN
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Specs
- Top
- Italian Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Orchestra Model
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.767"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2020
About Bashkin Guitars
Bashkin Guitars come out of Fort Collins, Colorado — a one-builder shop founded by Michael Bashkin in 1998. Michael's path to lutherie ran through tropical forestry: graduate work at Colorado State, post-graduate research at Duke, and time teaching forest ecology in Belize before he turned fully to guitars. That science background runs through the work — he reads wood the way few builders do, and the voicing reflects it. He trained under Ervin Somogyi and Harry Fleishman, two of the most influential figures in modern American boutique acoustic guitar making, and his four core models — OM, JM, SJ, and OO — carry that lineage forward in his own hand. The build queue is measured in years. He also hosts Luthier on Luthier, a long-form podcast on the craft itself.
About Carter Vintage Guitars
Carter Vintage Guitars sits at 606 8th Avenue South in Nashville, opened November 2012 by Walter and Christie Carter — each with twenty-five years in the vintage guitar business before they put their names on a shop. Walter spent a decade as Gibson's in-house historian and has authored a dozen books on vintage instruments, including "Gibson: 100 Years of an American Icon" and "Gruhn's Guide to Vintage Guitars"; Christie's focus was the high-end vintage market. The shop's reputation is built on full-disclosure transparency around condition, originality, and provenance — a standard set early and still held to. The catalog leads with vintage — pre-war Martins, original-finish Gibsons, vintage Fender — but the new-boutique acoustic side runs deep alongside it: Collings, Bourgeois, Santa Cruz, Huss & Dalton, Goodall, McPherson, Lowden, and Furch are anchor brands, with a rotating long tail of smaller US luthiers (Boucher, Pre-War Guitars Co., Beauregard, Sexauer, Tippin, Kevin Ryan, and others) passing through. Carter became part of TNAG Global in 2022 — the parent holding company that also acquired Norman's Rare Guitars in early 2026 — but day-to-day curation has stayed centered on the original Carter team. Worldwide shipping; in-person browsing on 8th Avenue South.
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