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Steel Magnolia – Josh Jones and Meghan Linsey with their new National Collegian
When the songwriter & performing duo Steel Magnolia were looking for a "new sound" to bring into their music, their producer Paul Worley (*) brought them to visit our shop. After playing numerous...
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National Triolian WB Wood Body
We've received another 12-fret National Triolian in all its... wooden glory? That's right, my friends, the always daring folks at National have yet again introduced another replica with painstaking...
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Bourgeois Vintage OM
Hello Adam, As a background information, I live in the Philippines and there are not too many good acoustic guitars here being carried by the usual music stores. The best you could get here will be...
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Collings OM2HG Cutaway with Adirondack Bracing and No Tongue Brace
Bill and Ellie, I wanted to say “thank you” for your patience and attention to detail regarding this purchase. Your product knowledge and recommendations are greatly appreciated. I love this guitar and...
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Collings UC2K Koa Concert Ukulele
Collings UC2K Koa Concert Ukulele Dear Artisan, I just wanted to say thank you for my new Collings UC2K Ukulele. Always wanted to learn to play one and after seeing this one on your website, I knew I...
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Santa Cruz Vintage Southerner vs. Gibson J45 – Slope Dread “Shoot Out”
We always welcome the opportunity to test theories here at the shop... Whether it be the distinct voicing differences between guitars from our builders, or the controversy about how a Herringbone top...
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L.R. Baggs M80 Acoustic Guitar Pickup System
MAGNETIC PICKUP WITH FULL RANGE BODY SENSITIVITY The soul of your guitar is in the body - from the tone woods that it's made of to the fine details in the way it was put together. A typical magnetic...
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National Reso-Phonic Biscayne Blue ResoLectric
Bill and Adam, Sorry guys, the Blue Biscayne ResoLectric has officially moved to California and is not coming back to Tennessee, at least not until I get a paying gig in Nashville. Thanks, great...
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Collings 290 Vintage White Single Lollar Dog Ear P90
Bill Collings is admittedly building some of the finest acoustic guitars that have ever been built. When he decided to take on the challenge of building electric guitars, at the onset, this may have...
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Collings 290 DC S Double Cutaway Crimson
This guitar was selected by Premier Guitar Magazine for their editorial review just after the Collings 290 DCs (Double cutaway) was introduced, October 2011 issue. They played it, wrote their review,...
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Collings 01G German Spruce with Mahogany Back and Sides
While Collings has been revered for their contemporary take on Dreadnoughts and OM's, they, like many other builders have been increasingly interested in smaller bodied guitars, not only for their...
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Oven Roasted Provence Tomatoes
Preheat oven to 170 F. Remove the core and cut tomatoes into ½ inch wedges. Place wedges skin down in baking dish. Sprinkle Garlic and spices over the tops of the tomatoes. Drizzle olive oil over the...
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Bourgeois 0 Classic Italian Spruce and Indian Rosewood
Bourgeois 0 Classic Italian Spruce and Indian Rosewood The Bourgeois 0 Classic is a modest guitar with simplified appointments with a classic combination of tonewoods featuring an Itailian Spruce top...
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Kamaka HP 1 Pineapple Koa Ukulele
Kamaka Hawaii was established in 1916 in the Territory of Hawaii, and is a family-owned and operated business. The Kamaka family has been dedicated to building skillfully-handcrafted ukuleles for...
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Huss and Dalton CM Cutaway
Huss and Dalton CM Cutaway - Review Hello Adam, My custom built Huss & Dalton CM is a magnificent instrument. The guitar looks beautiful. Remarkably, it sounds even better than it looks. The lows,...
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Kamaka HF 1 Standard Soprano Hawaiian Koa Ukulele
Kamaka Hawaii was established in 1916 in the Territory of Hawaii, and is a family-owned and operated business. The Kamaka family has been dedicated to building skillfully-handcrafted ukuleles for...
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Selling your guitar? We can help!
As you might imagine, with thousands of visitors to our website each day, many times a visitor will encounter one of our lovely instruments that will cause a serious loss of sleep! Totally unexpected,...
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Santa Cruz Vintage Southerner Slope Dreadnought
Santa Cruz Vintage Southerner Slope Dreadngought- Review! Artisan Team, The Santa Cruz VS has arrived safely in Little Rock. After unpacking for two hours, I was able to play it a little bit. I wanted...
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Carr The Bloke 1X12 Black and Cream
Carr The Bloke 1X12 Black and Cream From Carr "The Bloke finds it's inspiration in both classic British 10's and 80's heads plus late 60's American tube bass amps. We meld raw brashness with an...
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Composite Acoustics Blue High Gloss Cargo
Composite Acoustics Blue High Gloss Cargo Hi Ellie, Well, the surprise was a success, and the blue Composite Acoustics Cargo is an extreme success! I think Rick was initially unsure of the guitar...
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Composite Acoustics GXi Carbon Burst High Gloss
Composite Acoustics GXi Carbon Burst High Gloss Hello friends at Artisan: I have have been very busy enjoying my new Composite Acoustics GXi guitar! It has a nice balanced sound with exceptional low...
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Santa Cruz Custom F Cutaway Guitar
Santa Cruz Custom F Cutaway Guitar Hi Bill, I got the guitar yesterday. Great packing job! Got her out and the pictures don't really do justice to how beautiful the guitar it is, but it is a 'Mona...
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Collings 290 DC Double Cutaway
New for 2012 - The Collings 290 DC Some things are simply better in pairs. With a sleekly contoured double-cutaway mahogany body and dual hand-wound P90 pickups from Jason Lollar, the new 290 DC offers...
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Bourgeois OMC Cutaway
Just received his Bourgeois OMC Cutaway, and gave us a full report! Hello Adam, Yes, I got the guitar yesterday and was unable to put it down long enough to write. Today I had to work to make up for...
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Carr Amplifiers – A Brief History
For years Steve Carr had been repairing and modifying amps in North Carolina and in his free time he was building, modifying, and playing his very first hand wired prototype. Carr was impressed with...
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Music Ground 4 X 12 Reproduction Cabinet
Music Ground 4 X 12 Reproduction Cabinet Period correct replication of the famous 4x 12 cabinet. This is a reproduction cabinet built to the specifications of the popular "1960 A" 4x12 Marshall speaker...
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Composite Acoustics Player Review
Composite Acoustics Player Review TO: The Owner of Artisan Guitars: Recently, I went on a quest to locate and purchase two Composite Acoustic guitars: a Legacy RAW with electronics and a OX with...
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NRP Black Rust 12 Fret Steel
NRP Black Rust 12 Fret Steel - 1st Impressions OMG - The National is AMAZING! It's gorgeous, it feels so good (easy to play even with slide action) and sounds so bluesy, ( and its LOUD)!! I love it and...
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National Reso-Phonic Hollowneck Series
Introducing - The Hollowneck Series from National Reso-Phonic In 1939, National produced the last of their Tricone Hawaiian Steel guitars. At that time these instruments were manufactured predominantly...
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National ResoPhonic Hollowneck Series
Introducing - The Hollowneck Series from National ResoPhonic In 1939, National produced the last of their Tricone Hawaiian Steel guitars. At that time these instruments were manufactured predominantly...
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National Style 0 Bright Nickel Plated with Hawaiian Palm Tree Design
National Style 0 Bright Nickel Plated with Hawaiian Palm Tree Design There is an art to reproducing guitars from a by-gone era in today's day and age. The folks at National have certainly proven that...
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Collings D2HA Adirondack Spruce Indian Rosewood Varnish Finish
Collings D2HA Adirondack Spruce Indian Rosewood Varnish Finish The D2HA is a standard model in our shop. It has commanding presence with balanced tone and clarity. The Indian Rosewood brings the guitar...
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Collings 0001A Adirondack Spruce and Mahogany
The 12-fret 000 has the same general appearance as the Collings 00, but in a larger size with longer string scale. Although it's the same width and depth as the OM, the longer body typically produces...
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Huss and Dalton Road Edition Dreadnought – Sitka and Indian Rosewood
Huss and Dalton Road Edition - Player Review! Bill, Today I received the guitar. Wow! sounds great and the set up is PERFECT (Better than my Bourgeois D-150) It is always great to do business with you...
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Collings OM2HG German Spruce Indian Rosewood with Cutaway
Collings OM2HG German Spruce Indian Rosewood with Cutaway 80 years after the orchestra model body shape was first designed it has become the most popular 14-fret model with fingerstyle guitar soloists...
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Collings OM1A Adirondack Top with Mahogany Back and Sides
Collings OM1A - Customer Review! Adam, I just wanted to say thank you for making my purchase such a great experience. Not everyone has the courtesy to treat customers (and even potential customers)...
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1956 Fender Stratocaster Custom Colored Sherwood Green
A man walks into a respected luthier with his 1956 Stratocaster that had a strange blue paint applied over the original finish. This man knew that the blue finish was non-original and wanted to have...
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Dana Bourgeois to restore Bryan Sutton’s flood damaged Banjo Killer
Lewiston, Maine. June 22, 2012. In May of 2010, the Cumberland River overflowed its banks, deluging large areas of Nashville and damaging much of Nashville’s historic downtown area, the Grand Ole...
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Dana Bourgeois to restore Bryan Sutton’s flood damaged Banjo Killer
Lewiston, Maine. June 22, 2012. In May of 2010, the Cumberland River overflowed its banks, deluging large areas of Nashville and damaging much of Nashville’s historic downtown area, the Grand Ole...
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A long story from Taipei, along way from Santa Cruz
Charles in Taipei sent us an email, requesting instructions about how to adjust the truss rod on his Santa Cruz. After some coaching, he went searching for the right tools... Dear Ellie, After...
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Collings I 35 Amber Sunburst Flamed Maple and Mahogany with Lollar Humbuckers
Bill Collings has reinvigorated the industry with his take on classic design. The I-35 is Collings' reinterpretation of the semi-hollow body, two-pickup guitar. The first I-35 in Tiger Eye Burst in...
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Composite Acoustics GXi High Gloss Charcoal with Fishman Prefix Plus T
The body of the GXi is the same as Composite Acoustics most popular model, the GX. The grand auditorium sized cut-away provides fuller bass response than the slimmer X Model, while providing easy...
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AER Pocket Tools Colourizer
The AER Colourizer is a preamplifier for instrument or microphone (vocal or instrument microphone). You insert it into the signal chain between source and next point in the audio path (e.g. amplifier...
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7th Annual Chet Atkins Tribute Show
July in Nashville is always a welcome & exciting time of year, when hundreds of like-minded, high-spirited, thumb pickin’ guitar players convene for the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society annual...
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Composite Acoustics GXi High Gloss Charcoal with Fishman Prefix Plus T
The body of the GXi is the same as Composite Acoustics most popular model, the GX. The grand auditorium sized cut-away provides fuller bass response than the slimmer X Model, while providing easy...
View ArticleCustom Orders
With our unique catalog of luthiers, each offering instruments in the bench built technique, custom instrument design has become one of our key areas of experience. If you visit the Arriving Soon...
View ArticlePlacing an instrument on “Hold”
With as many as 250 new & pre-owned instruments in stock, you will also find we have another 200 new instruments on order with our builders at any given time (visit the Arriving Soon section of our...
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Collings 0002H Sunburst Sitka Spruce and Indian Rosewood
The 12-fret 000 has the same general appearance as the Collings 00, but in a larger size with longer string scale. Although it's the same width and depth as the OM, the longer body typically produces...
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DPA VO4099V Acoustic Instrument Clip Microphone for Violin or Mandolin and More
DPA VO4099V Acoustic Instrument Clip Microphone for Violin or Mandolin and More Superior gain-before-feedback Wireless compatible Flexible and easy one-hand mounting Holder gentle to the instrument...
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Santa Cruz Open House – with Richard Hoover
Santa Cruz fans, we extend an invitation for you to join us in welcoming Richard Hoover: Santa Cruz - Open House Date - Thursday, July 12th Time - 2 to 4 PM To save a seat - Email us your RSVP Make...
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