Goodall Guitars
ROCJC 2006
2006 · Listed at Mighty Fine Guitars · Lafayette, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Mighty Fine Guitars’ site.
$5,700
Last seen 10h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Mighty Fine Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Port Orford Cedar
- Back / Sides
- Robusta Eucalyptus
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Concert Jumbo
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- Yes
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2006
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.
Mighty Fine Guitars
In Lafayette, just east of the Bay, Mighty Fine Guitars keeps a deep, rotating bench of one-off luthier flat-tops — a consignment and used shop where a Somogyi or a Sexauer might sit beside a Klein & Kauffman, a Heiden, or a Wingert, with vintage Martin and Gibson nearby. The room leans toward the individual makers of the American steel-string revival more than the production names, though Collings, Bourgeois, and Santa Cruz round it out. It reads less like a catalog than a well-kept collection.
