Circle Strings
Dreadnought 2019, Natural
2019 · 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
- Mahogany
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1.765"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2019
Circle Strings
Circle Strings is the custom acoustic shop of Adam Buchwald, who founded it in 2005 and has since grown it into a team workshop in South Burlington, Vermont. Buchwald came up through vintage repair — studying under Bob Jones and running the bench at Brooklyn's Retrofret — before a stint building at Froggy Bottom, and that grounding shows in flattops that sit largely in the Martin tradition while ranging into mandolins, tenor guitars, and one-off, customer-driven designs. The work blends CNC precision with handwork, quality checked at every station. Circle Strings now anchors a small family of Vermont brands under Buchwald — the more affordable Iris Guitar Company, Dale Fairbanks' Fairbanks Guitars, the Allied Lutherie tonewood business, and the group's own retail shop.
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.
