Goodall Guitars
Concert Jumbo Bearclaw German Spruce & Rosewood
Listed at The Music Emporium · Lexington, MA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Music Emporium’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Music Emporium’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- German Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Honduran Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- CJ
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
Goodall Guitars
Goodall Guitars are built in Sparta, Tennessee by a father-son shop — James Goodall, his son Luke, and Jean Goodall running the business side. James built his first guitar in San Diego in 1972 as a self-taught seascape painter who traded an oil painting for the tonewoods (this was before guitar-construction books existed; he learned from scratch). Fifty-plus years later, the operation has stayed small and family-run, building hand-made instruments across thirteen body sizes and five series. The Goodall design language favors restrained appointments — the woods carry the visual weight, and the brand's reputation lives in player-to-player word-of-mouth more than marketing.
The Music Emporium
The Music Emporium has been a Boston-area institution for decades — a Lexington, Massachusetts shop with one of the deepest curated boutique acoustic catalogs in the country. They're the kind of dealer where Bourgeois, Olson, Lowden, and Collings sit on the wall like that's a normal day, and where working players and serious collectors have done business in person and at distance for years.