Preston Thompson Guitars
Preston Thompson OM-BA Custom
Listed by Eddie's Guitars · Maplewood, MO
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rw
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Brazilian Rw
- Body shape
- Om
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1.69"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
About Preston Thompson Guitars
Preston Thompson Guitars build handmade flattops in Sisters, Oregon — the shop Preston Thompson founded after decades studying pre-war Martin construction. Preston came up under Charles Fox at his Vermont guitar school in the 1970s and then through Randy Wood's Old Time Pickin' Parlor in Nashville, but his defining education was the years he spent with bluegrass great Charles Sawtelle measuring his collection of pre-war Martin dreadnoughts — measurements that still drive the shop's bracing patterns and top graduations today. The instruments were chosen as winner's prize at the National Flatpicking Championships three years running, and players including Eric Bibb and Sawtelle himself put them on records. Preston passed away in 2019, and the team he had spent years training continued the work in the same Sisters shop using the same methods and the same hands.
About Eddie's Guitars
Eddie's Guitars is a family-owned shop in Historic Maplewood, Missouri — founded by Ed Putney in 1971 and now operated alongside his son Nathan. Their boutique acoustic catalog runs deep across the modern canon, with particular strength in Bourgeois Custom Shop, Collings, Santa Cruz, Atkin, Goodall, Huss & Dalton, and Froggy Bottom. The shop operates by appointment only, delivering a private demo experience for serious players and collectors.
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