Boucher Guitars
GR-SG-161T
Listed at Lauzon Music · Ottawa, ON · Dealer ref #GR-ME-1121-OMH
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Lauzon Music’s site.
$5,823 USD
CA$8,169 CAD
Last seen 13h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Lauzon Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Torrefied Adirondack
- Back / Sides
- Maple
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- OM Hybrid
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
Boucher Guitars
Boucher Guitars are built in Berthier-sur-Mer, Quebec, in the Canadian Appalachians. Founded by Robin Boucher in 2005, the shop is anchored by a regional resource most builders dream about — Picea Rubens, the same Adirondack red spruce traditionally associated with golden-era Martin and Gibson tops, harvested from the surrounding forests. Boucher uses the best of these tops in their own guitars and supplies several thousand per year to other top acoustic builders worldwide — one of the only boutique luthiers who is also a tier-one tonewood supplier to the industry. They were the first to introduce torrefied Picea Rubens soundboards, which specialty magazines and luthiers have called the most significant innovation in high-end acoustic guitar in forty years. The catalog spans Dreadnought through Parlor across 12-fret and 14-fret variants, each guitar hand-built over twelve weeks.
Lauzon Music
Three generations on Wellington Street: Larry and Dorothy Lauzon opened the shop in 1945, Ken took it over in 1974 and grew it across two floors, and Dave runs it now. The louder half is electric — Fender and Gibson Custom Shop, and the boutique amps they've carried since Dr. Z and Fulltone arrived in the nineties — which is what their September showcase is built around. The acoustic room is quieter and more Canadian: Boucher in unusual depth, Collings beside it, and the full factory spec sheet published for each.
