Dudenbostel Guitars
D-45S 1994
1994 · Listed at Carter Vintage Guitars · Nashville, TN
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Carter Vintage Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Carter Vintage Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Adirondack Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- D
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 25/32"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 1994
Dudenbostel Guitars
Dudenbostel Guitars come out of Maryville, Tennessee — a one-builder shop run by Lynn Dudenbostel, who builds both flat-top guitars and mandolins. Lynn — known to the boutique community as "Dude" — is best known for pre-war Martin replicas: herringbone-trimmed 28-style 00s, 000s, and OMs in Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack spruce. He works on roughly three instruments at a time and rotates between phases — months of mandolin work, then months of guitars. The mandolin range runs from snakehead A-styles to full F-styles in varnish finish. Tonewood patience is the through-line: Brazilian rosewood sets held quietly for fifteen years until the right commission justifies them. Fretboard Journal calls the work "some of the most coveted acoustic instruments built today." Multi-year wait list.
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.
