2011 Brondel Model D-3 guitar. SN Instrument database. D-3 shape.

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2011 Brondel Model D-3 guitar. SN Instrument database. Macassar Ebony Back.

• D-3
• Scale: 25.6″ (650mm)
• Nut width; 1 13/16″
• Bridge string spacing; 2 3/8″
• Top; German spruce
• Back & sides; Macassar ebony
• Bridge; Macassar ebony
• Bridge & end pins; Indian ebony
• Bindings: Indian ebony
• Tail wedge: Indian ebony
• Construction: Capped back braces, reinforced sideport on bass side
• Appointments Double “arrow” pattern rosette, single “arrow” top purfling, back strip, mitred side & back purflings
• Neck: Honduran mahogany flamed/natural
• Fingerboard: macassar ebony
• Fingerboard radius: 16″
• Frets: EVO high medium
• Side dot markers: abalone dots
• Headplate & backplate: Indian ebony
• Heel cap: Indian ebony
• Appointments: fretboard framed with .020″ curly maple line,
• Indian ebony bindings
• Truss-rod access headstock
• Construction bolt-on
• Tuning machines Nickel Waverly w/ebony buttons
• Pricing: Contact.

2011 Brondel Model D-3 guitar. SN Instrument database. Side port.

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Resources: Interview with Laurent Brondel: here.

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• Model: Dreadnought
• Serial no: 3
• Year: 2009
• Top: Carpathian Spruce.
• Back and sides: Honduran Mahogany
• Neck: Mahogany
• Nut Width: 1 3/4″
• Scale: 25.4″
• Body Length: 19 7/8″
• Lower Bout: 15 5/8″
• Upper Bout: 11 3/8″
• US$3,000

Carpathian over mahogany with a 1 3/4″ vintage style neck. This one has a french polish top with hide glue construction. It’s light and has that deep cutting tone I associate with the early 40′s D18s. The guitar is in good condition, has some play wear, mostly on the back and sides. Complete re-fret about a year ago by Bryan Kimsey as well as K&K pickup installation.

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• Model B-3can
• Lower Bout: 15 3/16″Scale: 25″
• Nut width: 1 25/32″
• Bridge string spacing: 2 1/4″
• Top: Port Orford Cedar
• Back & sides: Flamed Port Orford Cedar
• Construction: cutaway, tilt-neck neck block
• Appointments: custom marquetry rosette, top purflings and back centre strip
• Neck: Port Orford Cedar 3-piece laminated
• Fingerboard: Black walnut
• Fingerboard radius: 12″
• Frets: medium/high
• Headplate: Black walnut
• Backplate: Black walnut
• Heel cap: Black walnut
• Truss-rod access: peghead
• Construction tilt-neck mechanism
• Appointments Black walnut bindings, framed in .020″ curly maple
• Tuning machines gold Hipshot open-back w/black buttons

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This is Brondel B3c- a 00 sized monster made entirely out of Port Orford Cedar- it has a mastergrade top, flamed back and sides and a really clean stiff piece for the neck. (read more about Port Orford Cedar here). It has a cutaway and a tilt neck system but most of all it was a wonderful voice- clear, powerful, responsive and yet with endless headroom. To boot, the fixtures and a adornments are all made in the US, the black walnut/ maple highlights are salvaged- this guitar has a super low carbon footprint and no forest was harmed. The ultimate green guitar!

Resources: Interview with Laurent Brondel: here.

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• Model: 000-12 cutaway, slot headstock
• Year: 2010
• Serial number: 84
• Scale 25.4″
• Nut width 1 3/4”
• Bridge string spacing 2 1/4″
• Top: red spruce
• Back & sides: East Indian rosewood
• Bridge: Ebony
• Bindings: curly maple
• rosette: spalted maple and mother of pearl
• Neck: one piece mahogany
• Fingerboard: Brazilian rosewood
• Headplate Brazilian rosewood
• Price: $2900

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John Kinnaird is producing some of the best value guitars out there in terms of bang for buck. This lovely 000-12 fret has a lovely bell-like chime from the superb quality Adirondack red spruce top, coupled with loads of power and headroom. I play it hard with a fat pick, but it responds equally well, if not even better, to a gentle, more lyrical touch. The rosewood gives it plenty of depth and overtones, and it has a friendly, woody quality to the tone. The appointments are lovely, the woods used are beautiful, and the sound is mature and winning. A great all-rounder, and outstanding value when you take the cutaway and red spruce top into account. This guitar is priced at his old price. $2900

Resources: Interview with John Kinnaird: here.

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• “The Essential” A-2
• Serial number: 100525
• Scale: 25.6″ (650mm)
• Nut width: 1 13/16″
• Bridge string spacing: 2 3/8″
• Top: western red cedar
• Back & sides: black walnut
• Bridge: Honduran RW
• Bindings: tortoise celluloid
• Tail wedge: Madagascar rosewood
• Construction: double sides, sideport on bass side, red spruce braces
• Appointments: single ring rosette
• Neck: European cherry laminated 5 parts cherry/black walnut
• Fingerboard: macassar ebony
• Headplate: Madagascar rosewood
• Heel cap: Madagascar rosewoo
• Tuning machines: chrome Hipshot open back
• Pricing: Contact. Sold.

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This is an OM size Brondel model, featuring a wonderful cedar top and Laurent’s first venture into the world of soundports, and boy does it pay off. This guitar is loud, sweet, refined, responsive. It’s a joy to play all over the fretboard. The tone tends more towards a modern fingerstyle sound, with plenty of overtones, sustain and a less woody, traditional feel, but we are confident that any player would find this guitar beguiling and rewarding.
Construction is immaculate.

This is one of Laurent’s “essential” range, which are priced more affordably, but it lacks nothing. Appointments may be somewhat simpler, everything else is all there. Especially the TONE. One of the best fingerstyle guitars we have seen, c’est maqnifique!

Resources: Interview with Laurent Brondel: here.

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• Builder: John Greven
• Model: 00028
• Year: 2010
• Serial #:
• Back/Sides:Pao Escrito
• Top: Smokies Adirondack
• Neck: Mahogany
• Headplate: Rosewood
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Frets to body: 14
• Top Trim: Herringbone
• Rosette: Line
• Tuners: Grover 18:1
• Body Length: 19 1/4″
• Lower Bout: 15″
• Body Depth @Tail Block: 4″
• Nut Width: 1 13/16″
• Strings Spacing: 2 1/4″
• Price: HOLD for show

Here’s a straight up 00028c- our take on the OM platform but with some modifications. Smokies Adirondack top over Pao Escrito produce a power guitar with a rich tonal palatte. Pao Escrito is a true rosewood and a bell like tonality.  We then dressed it up with a 28 style trim and a sunburst! John Greven had this to say: “The OM is a whole nother beast.  Huge voice, deep, warm, clean, powerful.”

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• Builder: John Greven
• Model: Travel Guitar
• Year: 2010
• Serial #:
• Back/Sides: highly figured Maple
• Top: Smokies Adirondack
• Neck: Mahogany
• Headplate: Rosewood
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Frets to body: 12
• Pickguard: Clear
• Top & Back Trim: Black line purling
• Rosette: Spalted maple
• Tuners: Gotoh with ebony buttons
• Price: HOLD for show

In 2002, we asked John Greven to help us build a travel guitar with a detachable neck and a small footprint… oh and a humongous sound. He responded with a spruce/maple single O sized monster with a single bolt controlled neck. The guitar sounded unbelievably good and the neck mechanism worked perfectly!

So this is a mark 2 in many respects. Although with the same spruce/maple combination, we have pushed the limits of this model with a tight grained Smokies Adirondack top. The neck is now mahogany for better balance and the neck joint has been refined by John to the point of near perfection.  Earlier pinless bridge has given way to a more traditional pinned bridge for better safety.  John Greven had this to say:

” Sounds really good and plays like butter. Crisp, has a nice pop to the notes, is full for a small box.”

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• Builder: John Greven
• Model: J
• Year: 2010
• Serial #:
• Back/Sides: highly figured Maple
• Top: Smokies Adirondack
• Neck: Flamed Maple
• Headplate: Rosewood
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Frets to body: 14
• Pickguard: Dalmantian Tortis
• Top & Back Trim: Abalone purfling
• Rosette: Abalone
• Tuners: Gotoh 510s with ebony buttons
• Body Length: 20 1/4″
• Lower Bout: 16″
• Body Depth @Tail Block: 4 7/8″
• Nut Width: 1 13/16″
• Strings Spacing: 2 1/4″
• Price: $8,700

This was a long time in the planning. I managed to convince John Greven to go back in time when his White Lady and J models were most popular. Perhaps making this guitar a re-issue of sorts! I’ve played a few of John’s maple Js and they have always been very balanced with good warmth (especially for maple) and a superb recording instrument- ask John Denver or Mary Chapin Carpenter!

John paired a Smokies Adirondack top from my stash with a great set of flamed maple from his. Throw in the White Lady level of trim: Abalone top and back purfling, carved heel, birds inlay and it one tasty guitar. John Greven had this to say:

“The guitar has a big, warm voice with just a touch of edge at the top. ounds to me like a really good old J-200.  A really good one…”

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• Builder: Michael Bashkin
• Model: Placencia
• Year: 2010
• Serial #:
• Back/Sides:  highly figured Cocobolo
• Top: Lucky Strike Redwood
• Neck: Mahogany/Rosewood
• Headplate: Cocobolo
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Frets to body: 14
• Pickguard: Clear
• Top Trim: Multiline wood purfling
• Rosette: Segmented burnt wood
• Tuners: Gold Waverlys with ebony buttons
• Body Length: 19 3/8″
• Upper Bout: 11 1/8″
• Lower Bout: 15 3/8″
• Body Depth @Neck Heel: 3 1/2″
• Body Depth @Tail Block: 4 3/8″
• Scale Length: 25.6″
• Nut Width: 1 25/32″
• Strings Spacing: 2 1/4″
• Price: HOLD

At Goodacoustics, we love unusual instruments, especially those with hard to find tonewoods and a history to boot. This Bashkin fits the bill nicely! It was ordered especially for us with my own personal stash of Lucky Strike redwood (read more about here). I’ve always found redwood and a dense, reflective rosewood back tobe a match made in heaven and we paired the LS top with this highly figured cocobolo back and sides.

The result is a gorgeous intrusment for the eye but more importantly for the ears. It has a singing voice with a liquid treble and lush deep overtones. The instrument has a precise, bell like fundamental with a forgiving amount of overtones making it ideal for fingerstyle as well as strumming.

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• Luthier: Threet Guitars, Judy Threet
• Model: E
• Year: recent
• Serial #: E04.2-55
• Back/Sides: Tasmanian Blackwood
• Top: Bearclaw Sitka Spruce
• Neck: Mahogany
• Headplate: Ebony
• Headstock Inlay: Fly and Moon custom inlay
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Frets to body: 14
• Cutaway: smooth
• Top Trim: violin Lines
• Tuners: Gotoh 510s Gold With Ebony Buttons
• Case: Accord flight case
• Condition: Excellent
• Body Length: 20 in.
• Upper Bout: 11 in.
• Lower Bout: 15 1/2 in.
• Body Depth @Neck Heel: 3 1/2 in.
• Body Depth @Tail Block: 4 3/8 in.
• Scale Length: 25 in. (635 mm)
• Nut Width: 1 3/4 in. (44.45 mm)
• Strings Spacing: 2 1/4 in. (57.15 mm)
• Pricing: US$6,500ng.pacasd

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This Model E Threet guitar has been with me for several years and is a a really great example of Judy’s eye for detail. From the bearclaw top to what must be my favorite headstock inlay of all time, the detailing and aesthetics are near perfect. The tone is clear yet expressive with a good headroom which makes it versatile. The short scale and cutaway make it easy to play.

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