Hozen Guitars
Blue Label Deep OM Sitka/Santos Rosewood
Listed at The Fretted Buffalo · Buffalo, NY
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Fretted Buffalo’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Fretted Buffalo’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Santos Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- OM
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.73"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Hozen Guitars
Hozen Guitars are voiced by Ho Zen Yong in Singapore and built by his small team in Guangzhou — a four-person collaborative shop turning out four or five instruments a month, all hand-voiced by Hozen himself. He trained directly under Ervin Somogyi, the modern dean of responsive acoustic voicing, and the Blue Label line carries that lineage forward in his own idiom: a signature lattice bracing pattern, rigid-rim construction, the Manzer wedge for tonal depth in a compact body, soundport, and beveled Laskin armrest. The output volume is unusual for a luthier-led shop — most peers at this level make twenty or thirty a year — which makes the Blue Labels meaningfully more findable than equivalent single-builder work, without the multi-year wait that typically gates Somogyi-school voicing.
The Fretted Buffalo
The Fretted Buffalo is an online-first dealer based near Buffalo, New York, working from a deliberately small, curated catalog rather than a sprawling floor — instruments chosen, in the shop's words, for tone, craftsmanship, and individuality. Most of their guitars ship across the country, so the business is built around earning a distance buyer's trust: detailed descriptions, professional photography, and demonstration videos on each listing, backed by a seven-day approval period and free insured shipping within the continental US. The boutique acoustic shelf leans into the modern fingerstyle and flatpicking names — Bourgeois (and its Touchstone line), Huss & Dalton, Lowden, Furch, Atkin, and Boucher — alongside Gallagher, Hozen, Avenir, McIlroy, and McNally, with the occasional used Martin or Preston Thompson rounding out the catalog. A small, carefully chosen collection with the online presentation to match.