Greven Guitars
2007 Greven L-00 Kalamazoo Sitka & Old Growth Honduran Mahogany w/ Brazilian Fingerboard
2007 · Listed at Northern Lights Music · Littleton, NH
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Northern Lights Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Northern Lights Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- L-00
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2007
Greven Guitars
Greven Guitars are built by John Greven, currently in Lacey, Washington — a luthier who started in 1969 and apprenticed at George Gruhn's Nashville shop in the late 60s and early 70s, repairing the pre-war Martins and Gibsons that have shaped his voicing ever since. His work draws explicitly from pre-WW2 forms and uses high-grade materials — Lutz Spruce is a frequent soundboard choice, often paired with Brazilian rosewood or figured maple. Greven closed his Portland shop in 2021 and restarted building from Lacey in 2023; total output is past 2,200 instruments. The shop is less broadly recognized than the larger boutique names, but holds a quiet reputation in the community as one of the most authentic pre-war voicings available from a working luthier today.
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Northern Lights Music
Northern Lights Music is a family-owned independent in Littleton, New Hampshire, operating since 1978 from a Main Street storefront in the heart of the White Mountains. The shop's boutique acoustic floor runs unusually deep for a town its size — Bourgeois is the standout, alongside Santa Cruz, Collings, Lowden, and Huss & Dalton, with rotating inventory from Froggy Bottom, Goodall, Preston Thompson, Greven, Larrivée, and McPherson. New and used sit side by side, and the used catalog regularly turns up vintage examples of the same builders. The shop's geographic position — roughly three hours north of Boston and four from Montreal — makes it a destination dealer for upper New England and southern Quebec rather than a walk-by retailer.