Shabby Chic custom fingerstyle Drednought with wedge body and Ryan-style armrest bevel: Sold out


These drednoughts are what Shabby Chic is all about. We found some really well built contemporary factory-built Dreds from Asia with 1 3/4" wide nuts and slim necks with a C profile. The tone? Meh. Inside the box was an all-too-common sight on these factory made guitars: Martin-style bracing that was simply way too overbuilt to give good responsive tone. The tops are pretty thin, though, so we decided these would be excellent candidates for re-voicing. Our luthier explains: "If I learned anything from my time studying under Ervin Somogyi, it was that - given a reasonably thin top and enough air volume inside the body - most any bracing pattern that provides enough structure can be voiced to create a very responsive instrument with well defined bass, great clarity, volume, and separation of notes." Add in a few comfort features like a Manzer-style wedge-shaped body and a Ryan-style armrest bevel which are only found on custom guitars costing thousands of dollars more and you have a perfect example of the kind of instrument that Shabby Chic was created to make.

Guitar specs:
-Solid spruce top with custom voiced light bracing
-Solid Mahogany back
-Mahogany neck
-Rosewood fingerboard and bridge
-Chrome sealed tuners
-25.4" Scale Length
-1-3/4" neck width at the nut
-String spacing at saddle: 2-1/4"
-Ryan-style armrest bevel
-Wedge shaped body with 1" taper
-Very low action of 5-6/64ths at the 12th fret optimized for fingerstyle playing
-Satin finish
-Bone saddle
-Slotted bridge with your choice of rosewood, ebony, or boxwood pins
-Hardshell case included
















All Shabby Chic guitars come with a 7 day approval period once received. If you don't like it, simply send it back and we will refund your purchase price (you pay shipping).