Bourgeois Guitars
Banjo Killer - Bearclaw Sitka & Figured Mahogany
Listed at Burgo's Guitars · Palmer Lake, CO
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Burgo's Guitars’ site.
$6,479
Last seen 1h ago on dealer site
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Specs
- Top
- Bearclaw Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Figured Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Slope-Shoulder Dread
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois Guitars are built in Lewiston, Maine, in a shop led by Dana Bourgeois — one of the most quietly influential voicers in acoustic guitar making. Dana spent decades refining his ear before the brand took its current shape, and players who care about tone trade notes about the dry, fundamental "Bourgeois" voice the way wine drinkers talk about terroir. Each top is still hand-voiced by ear rather than built to a fixed spec. Since a 2019 strategic partnership with the Eastman Music Company, Dana has stayed on as an owner and CEO with his team building in Lewiston as before — the partnership widened the brand's reach while the Maine workshop kept doing what it always has.
Burgo's Guitars
Burgo's Guitars is a by-appointment shop in Palmer Lake, a small town on the Front Range between Denver and Colorado Springs, built around the idea that choosing a handmade guitar should be unhurried — visits happen in a private demo room off a climate-controlled showroom, at whatever pace the player wants. The selection is tight rather than broad: Santa Cruz, Bourgeois, Boucher and Huss & Dalton alongside top-end Larrivée, with a standing shelf for local and small-shop luthiers. It reads as a room assembled by someone who plays them all.
