Atkin Guitars
J-43 Anniversary (No.9 of 25) Sunburst (Pre-Owned, 2020, VG+)
2020 · Listed at Guitar Village · Farnham, England · Dealer ref #1527
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Guitar Village’s site.
$8,017 USD
£5,999 GBP
Last seen 23h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Guitar Village’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Cuban Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Rosewood
- Body shape
- J
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1 11/16"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2020
Atkin Guitars
Atkin Guitars are built in Canterbury, England, founded by Alister Atkin in 1995. What started as a one-man bench has grown into one of the UK's leading boutique acoustic builders — a sixteen-person shop making roughly 750 guitars a year, every one of them hand-built. Their reputation is anchored in pre-war Martin and Gibson replicas (the slope-shouldered "Nineteen" is a flagship), but the catalog spans original designs, an electric line that joined the family in 2020, and a custom shop that builds whatever a player can dream up. The signature finish is an aged nitrocellulose lacquer developed over thirty years — soft, light, designed to check and patina naturally rather than stay perfect, mirroring how a lightly-used vintage instrument ages. Tops have been baked since 2011 for stability and the kind of resin-crystallized character usually associated with old wood. The player roster reads like a UK songwriters' room: Richard Hawley, Robert Plant, Graham Coxon, Kris Drever, Eddi Reader, Elbow.
Guitar Village
Guitar Village has traded from West Street in Farnham, Surrey, for more than 30 years: well over a thousand guitars across 15 demo rooms in a 15th-century building on the Surrey–Hampshire border, 45 minutes from London, with two more restored period rooms and a Vintage Guitar Gallery. Every member of staff plays guitar — a condition of working there — and the shop describes the feel it aims for as a "homely ambience". The boutique acoustic shelf is Atkin and Bourgeois alongside Martin and Taylor, plus a vintage and rare section; they sell worldwide through the website.
