Kostal Guitars
00 2015, Natural
2015 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Carter Vintage Guitars’ site.
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Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.75"
- Nut width
- 1.77"
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2015
Kostal Guitars
Kostal Guitars come out of Princeton, British Columbia — a one-builder shop run by Jason Kostal, building a small handful of guitars per year for a multi-year wait list. The work carries one of the most direct Somogyi lineages in modern boutique acoustic guitar making: Jason apprenticed full-time under Ervin Somogyi for thirty months in Oakland, and the signature Mod-D — Modified Dreadnought — is a Somogyi-derived design he has spent the years since refining in his own direction. Each guitar is built one at a time, voiced and dialed to a client's commissioned spec. Base models start at $26,000 before tonewood upgrades, with figured Brazilian and Madagascar runs adding into five figures. Hoffee cases, Gotoh 510 tuners, a Stained Glass rosette signature. The community talks about Kostal in the same conversation as Olson, Ryan, and Traugott.
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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.