OM
The Orchestra Model: a steel-string starting point for a close, articulate playing relationship.
Pictured: No. 734
Turkowiak / Made individually in Poland
SteelAn individual voice.
From OM and Grand Auditorium to paired courses and low-register instruments. A steel-string guitar built around your music.
Choose your instrumentAl Di Meola with his Turkowiak
Find your starting point
The body families.
Compare the proportions first. Scale, neck-body joint, access and setup are separate choices.
Grand Auditorium
A versatile steel-string body for melody, accompaniment and an individual fingerstyle voice.
Pictured: No. 776
Slope-Dreadnought
Sloping shoulders and a broad lower bout. A distinct steel-string body direction.
Skull & Roses, No. 780 / Nylon crossover, body-shape reference
Jumbo
A larger body, developed around the sound and physical reach you want.
Pictured: No. 099
Grand Parlor
A custom small-body steel-string direction, with Sanah's instrument as a reference.
Pictured: No. 757Range and register
Other ways to resonate.
12-string
Six paired courses, with the body and string arrangement chosen together.
Pictured: No. 322
Acoustic Bass
An acoustic bass voice with string count, scale and body size developed as one instrument.
Pictured: No. 708
Baritone
A longer-scale guitar direction for a deliberately lower register.
Pictured: No. 606
Mandocello
Eight strings in four paired courses, from the lower register of the mandolin family.
Pictured: No. 198Smaller forms
Closer to hand.
A useful distinction
Which direction fits?
The musical brief comes first. These are starting points for a discussion, not a ranking of sound quality.
OM
The Orchestra Model: a steel-string starting point for a close, articulate playing relationship.
Grand Auditorium
A versatile steel-string body for melody, accompaniment and an individual fingerstyle voice.
Slope-Dreadnought
Sloping shoulders and a broad lower bout. A distinct steel-string body direction.
Jumbo
A larger body, developed around the sound and physical reach you want.
Grand Parlor
A custom small-body steel-string direction, with Sanah's instrument as a reference.
12-string
Six paired courses, with the body and string arrangement chosen together.
Acoustic Bass
An acoustic bass voice with string count, scale and body size developed as one instrument.
Baritone
A longer-scale guitar direction for a deliberately lower register.
Travel
One hand-tightened screw. No tools. A full-scale guitar that folds for the journey.
Mandocello
Eight strings in four paired courses, from the lower register of the mandolin family.
Listen to the instrument
Recorded voices.
The number and title identify the guitar actually heard in each film.
Individual design enquiries
A different brief?
These directions begin with a design conversation. They are not presented as finished catalogue models.
Made for your playing
Where would you begin?
Tell us what you play, what feels right on your current instrument and what you would change. The specification, price and anticipated timing are agreed before the build begins.
Discuss an instrument