Touchstone by Bourgeois: smartly made Boutique guitars with a modest price tag At The Fellowship of Acoustics we have been admirers of the sublime guitars of Dana Bourgeois , for years, because he is the man who revived OM guitar model in the 80s of the last century. A few years... 2 December 2022
Tonewood Spotlight: Paulownia! When you say Telecaster you say ash wood. Or something more precise: swamp ash or Swamp Ash. Why? Because Leo Fender used it for the first legendary electric guitars in the 1950s. He started with spru... 24 November 2022
What makes an acoustic guitar so expensive? At The Fellowship of Acoustics we have more than 800 guitars in stock and more than half of them are acoustic . In our ‘Acoustic Villa’ we have something for everyone hanging on the wall in various sp... 15 November 2022
The Ultra Exclusive Paoletti Marco Polo Project Fabrizio, here at the Fellowship of Acoustics we know and love your guitars through the Boutique Guitar Showcase en Tour. All of these guitars were unique and yet all of them were clearly Paoletti Gui... 3 November 2022
Nieuw: Eastman Juliet! We have been a very happy Eastman dealer for years, because this luthier knows what today’s guitarplayers want: cool looks, great sound, awesome playability and reasonably priced. That's exactly what ... 6 October 2022
Tonewood spotlight: Cocobolo! Cocobolo, or Dalbergia Retusa, is an awesome tonewood. It is obviously related to the widely used Indian Rosewood and offers many of the same qualities, such as beautiful, clear highs and deep lows an... 29 September 2022
New: Lowry Guitars custom orders! From start to finish A stone's throw from Lille, Andrew Lowry does everything himself: from the rough woodwork to the last coat of finish. As he says himself: "A flawless finish is essential for a hig... 15 September 2022
TFOA Exclusief: Meet and Greet Paul Reed Smith That living guitar legend just says: "Hi, I'm Paul." This down to earth approach suits him, but what he has achieved in less than 40 years is anything but ordinary. In 1976 Paul Reed Smith built his f... 10 September 2022
Captivating Koa! Thanks to Taylor and some other luthiers, a beautiful tonewood is back in the spotlight: koa. This species only grows in Hawaii and when Hawaiian music was popular in the 20's of the previous century... 8 September 2022
Boutique Guitar Showcase | The Netherlands The NAMM Show Jamie Gale, lover of all things good and guitar-nerd deluxe, has a knack for finding luthiers making extraordinary instruments. Instruments we'd now deem as 'boutique'. At the world-famo... 2 September 2022
Here comes the Sunburst! If you say sunburst, then of course you say Gibson . Because this iconic American brand just knows how to suggest a fireball at the end of the horizon on a guitar top. History of the sunburst The sunb... 11 August 2022
Seriously? You DON'T have a ukulele? But...why? They are small, very handy to take with you, learning to play them is a breeze and they are just so much fun! George Harrison was right when he said: everybody should have a ukulele! Eddie Vedder of P... 14 July 2022