Tippin Guitars
000-12T in Mahogany & Sitka Spruce
2012 · Listed at The Six-String Collective · London, England
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at The Six-String Collective’s site.
Photos hot-linked from The Six-String Collective’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2012
Tippin Guitars
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.
The Six-String Collective
The Six-String Collective is a young UK dealer, launched in 2024 as a home for luthier-built guitars from British and international makers. It works as much like a curated consignment marketplace as a traditional shop — bringing together buyers, sellers, and the luthiers themselves — and its founders came to it from more than a decade in the instrument trade, several of those years at the forefront of the boutique world. The catalog pairs established names like Tom Sands, Lowden, Collings, Santa Cruz, and McPherson with a strong bench of British and European builders — Taran, Ralph Bown, O'Gorman, Oska Burman — several of them low-volume makers whose instruments rarely reach the open market. New and pre-owned instruments sit side by side, with the emphasis on personal service.
