Art Deco 000-1T12 Natural

Tippin Guitars are built in Marblehead, Massachusetts by Bill Tippin — a luthier who came to guitar-making through furniture and boat-building, and whose shop has spent the last few decades refining a small line of six flatops oriented around fingerstyle and singer-songwriter players. The Crescendo is the flagship — slightly larger than a 000/12-fret body, suited to most playing styles, and the model Grammy-winning fingerstylist Al Petteway carries as a signature series. Tippin is also one of the few boutique builders who actively takes restoration and repair work on outside instruments, which has built him an unusually deep reputation in the New England and broader US boutique-acoustic community for both his own builds and his ear for other luthiers' work.