Circle Strings
Koa Dreadnought Model 'Trey Specs' ()
Listed at Sylvan Music · Santa Cruz, CA · Dealer ref #277
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Sylvan Music’s site.
$16,500
Last seen 3h ago on dealer site
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Specs
- Top
- German Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
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.
Sylvan Music
Sylvan Music has been on Mission Street in Santa Cruz since 1993 — a quietly remarkable shop opened in 1984 by Albert Markasky, who still builds and repairs in the back room. Albert's lineage is part of the shop's character: he apprenticed under David Morse in 1980, then rented a one-car garage with Jeff Traugott in 1983 before Jeff left to join Richard Hoover at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company. That Sylvan-to-SCGC thread is a real piece of the Santa Cruz boutique-acoustic story, and the shop's continuing SCGC relationship shows in the inventory: the active Santa Cruz Guitar Company shelf is the deepest single-dealer SC catalog in the atlas, spanning OMs, D Customs, signature models, 50th Anniversary builds, and Custom Shop work. Goodall and Iris each carry a meaningful stack of in-stock boutique acoustics; rotating Lowden inventory rounds it out. The broader catalog runs much wider — Larrivée, Taylor, Duesenberg, Nash, Weber Mandolins, Dusty Strings, plus banjos, dulcimers, violins, and two vintage rooms — but Tonewood Atlas's scope intersects the boutique-acoustic shelf. For California boutique-acoustic shoppers, especially anyone tracking Santa Cruz Guitar Company inventory, Sylvan is the deepest in-person SC catalog on the West Coast plus a meaningful Goodall + Iris destination.
