Maker
Bourgeois Guitars
United States boutique acoustic guitar maker
Bourgeois Guitars is a United States boutique, custom, or luthier-led acoustic guitar maker.
Models
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Bourgeois Vintage D
United States
The Bourgeois Vintage D is a square-shoulder dreadnought built with classic pre-war styling: a Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, and vintage herringbone trim. The dreadnought body, with its large air cavity and scalloped X-bracing, delivers strong projection and low-end power on a 25.5-inch scale, making it a flatpicking and bluegrass favorite. Bourgeois hand-voices each guitar in Lewiston, Maine, pairing the period look with modern construction.
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Bourgeois Touchstone Series
China
The Touchstone Series is Bourgeois's more accessible line, created to bring the company's signature hand-voiced, tap-tuned tone to a wider audience at a lower price than its standard Maine-built instruments. Produced through a collaboration with Eastman, Touchstone guitars are largely built at Eastman's factory and then hand-voiced, inspected, and set up in Bourgeois's Lewiston, Maine workshop. The series spans models such as the Country Boy in mahogany and the Vintage in Indian rosewood with herringbone trim.
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Bourgeois Slope D
United States
The Bourgeois Slope D is a slope-shouldered dreadnought defined by its short 25-inch scale length, with a 25.5-inch version also offered. Slightly curvier, wider, and deeper than the square-shouldered dreadnought, it has long been favored by country and American roots players and is widely regarded as an excellent choice for vocal accompaniment and as a fingerpicker's dreadnought. Bourgeois builds and hand-voices it in Lewiston, Maine.
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Bourgeois Country Boy
United States
The Bourgeois Country Boy is the maker's mahogany-bodied model with simple, understated appointments in the traditional style-18 mold. Offered in both Orchestra Model (OM) and dreadnought sizes, it pairs a Sitka spruce top (standard or torrefied) with mahogany back and sides, giving the clarity and strong note separation that mahogany guitars are known for. Bourgeois builds and hand-voices the Country Boy in Lewiston, Maine.
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Bourgeois OM
United States
The Bourgeois OM, or Orchestra Model, is the maker's most popular body shape: a 14-fret acoustic guitar with a 25.5-inch scale that sits between the smaller 000 and a dreadnought. It is valued for its balance of clarity, presence, power, and comfort, appealing equally to fingerstyle players and flatpickers. Like all Bourgeois guitars it is built and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine.
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Bourgeois 00
United States
The Bourgeois 00 (double-O) is a small-bodied 14-fret acoustic guitar with a 25-inch scale length. It shares the body depth and outline of the older Size O but adds a longer, wider soundboard, delivering an exceptionally full tone in a compact, comfortable body. It offers much of the tone and versatility of an OM in a smaller package. Bourgeois builds and hand-voices it in Lewiston, Maine.
Sources
Categories
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Acoustic Guitars
Acoustic steel-string and nylon-string guitars, guitar model families, and related variants.
Representative model
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Bourgeois OM
United States
The Bourgeois OM, or Orchestra Model, is the maker's most popular body shape: a 14-fret acoustic guitar with a 25.5-inch scale that sits between the smaller 000 and a dreadnought. It is valued for its balance of clarity, presence, power, and comfort, appealing equally to fingerstyle players and flatpickers. Like all Bourgeois guitars it is built and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine.