Category

Acoustic Guitars

Acoustic steel-string and nylon-string guitars, guitar model families, and related variants.

  • Technical line drawing of Córdoba C1 Matiz Aqua

    Córdoba C1 Matiz Aqua

    Classical guitar

    Córdoba C1 Matiz Aqua is a nylon-string classical guitar model from Córdoba.

  • Preston Thompson Dreadnought

    Steel-string guitar · United States

    The Preston Thompson Dreadnought is a powerful prewar-style guitar that the maker says can stand up to the volume of a mandolin, fiddle and banjo and provide an almost full orchestral backing to vocals. It is built with Adirondack red spruce tops, advanced X-brace placement, hand-graduated tops, prewar-style hand-carved scalloped braces, nitrocellulose lacquer finishes, and dovetail neck joints. The design is based on the famous 1937 Herringbone Dreadnought owned by the late Charles Sawtelle.

  • Froggy Bottom Model M

    Steel-string guitar · United States

    The Model M is described by Froggy Bottom as a grand concert version of its popular full-sized K guitar, singing with a balanced voice of great clarity and sparkle. It has a tight waist and a full, rounded lower bout.

  • Technical line drawing of Alhambra 4P

    Alhambra 4P

    Classical guitar

    The Alhambra 4P guitar stands out for its exceptional sound quality and expert craftsmanship. 100% built in Spain.

  • Taylor 500 Series

    Acoustic guitar · United States

    The Taylor 500 Series is built in El Cajon, California. Current models such as the 514ce use Urban Ironbark (red ironbark eucalyptus) back and sides with torrefied spruce tops for a warm, balanced, complex voice.

  • Ovation Legend 2077AX

    Steel-string guitar, Acoustic guitar · United States

    The Ovation Legend 2077AX is a deep-contour cutaway roundback acoustic-electric with a AA solid spruce top, LX scalloped bracing, a single round soundhole with the inlaid pearl oak-leaf rosette, a five-piece mahogany and maple neck, an ebony fingerboard, and the OCP-1K pickup with OP-Pro Studio preamp.

  • Cole Clark Little Lady

    Steel-string guitar · Australia

    The Cole Clark Little Lady is the brand's compact mini series, an all-solid Australian-tonewood guitar with a shorter 23.5-inch scale. Representative models pair an Australian-grown American redwood top with Queensland maple back and sides and Cole Clark's pickup system.

  • Furch Vintage 2 D-SR

    Czech Republic

    The Furch Vintage 2 D-SR is a Dreadnought steel-string acoustic guitar with a Sitka spruce soundboard and Indian rosewood back and sides. It pairs an ebony fingerboard and an African mahogany neck with a Full-Pore Vintage Finish. The scale length is 25 9/16 inches (about 650 mm).

  • Maton Messiah EM100

    Steel-string guitar · Australia

    The Maton Messiah EM100 is the flagship of Maton's high-end Messiah Series, a dreadnought acoustic-electric steel-string guitar built from premium tonewoods including an AAA-grade Sitka spruce top with Indian rosewood back and sides. It uses scalloped Maton X bracing and the AP5-PRO pickup system.

  • Maton EBG808TE

    Steel-string guitar · Australia

    The Maton EBG808TE is a Tommy Emmanuel signature acoustic-electric steel-string guitar, developed in conjunction with the guitarist as a tribute to his musicianship and Maton's craftsmanship. Built on Maton's 808 body shape with a select-grade spruce top, Queensland maple back and sides, and scalloped Maton X bracing, it carries the AP5-PRO pickup system.

  • Seagull S6 Original

    Steel-string guitar · Canada

    The Seagull S6 Original is the long-running, award-winning flagship of the Seagull line, built in Canada with a pressure-tested solid cedar top, wild cherry back, and a silver leaf maple neck. It is finished in a custom-polished semi-gloss and known for a crisp midrange and tight low end.

  • Gibson L-7

    Acoustic guitar · United States

    A non-cutaway carved-top archtop from the 1930s, the L-7 sat in the upper tier of Gibson's acoustic archtop line. Its strong projection made it well suited to rhythm work in jazz and dance bands.

Technical line drawing of Acoustic Guitars
Technical line drawing of Acoustic Guitars

Sources

Makers

  • Manzer Guitars

    Manzer Guitars is a Canada boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Furch Guitars

    Furch Guitars is a Czech Republic boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Preston Thompson Guitars

    Preston Thompson Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Egmond

    Egmond was a Dutch guitar manufacturer, one of postwar Europe's largest, building inexpensive guitars that were widely sold across the continent in the 1950s and 1960s.

  • Goodall Guitars

    Goodall Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Somogyi Guitars

    Somogyi Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • Cole Clark

    Cole Clark is an Australian guitar maker known for acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars built largely from Australian tonewoods and fitted with its own pickup systems.

  • Takamine

    Takamine is a Japanese maker of acoustic and acoustic-electric guitars, established in 1959 near Mount Takamine. It is widely known for its onboard pickup and preamp systems for amplified acoustic performance.

  • Alvarez Guitars

    Alvarez is an American-owned acoustic guitar brand known for steel-string, classical, and acoustic-electric guitars offered across a wide range of price points.

  • Yamaha

    Yamaha is a Japanese musical instrument manufacturer founded in 1887 and one of the largest in the world, producing pianos, guitars, wind and brass instruments, drums, and a wide range of electronic instruments.

  • Collings Guitars

    Collings Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

  • William Laskin Guitars

    William Laskin Guitars is a Canada boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.

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