Product Description
All-new Bourgeois Touchstone Series guitars feature Old-Growth Alaskan Sitka Spruce tops and Adirondack Spruce braces harvested from deep in our backyard, selected and hand-voiced in Lewiston, Maine, by Dana Bourgeois and his team.
Using our renowned system of hand voicing, all Touchstone Series soundboards are optimized for tonal excellence by a team of skilled luthiers right here in Maine. The back and sides of the Touchstone Vintage/TS are made with carefully selected Indian Rosewood and assembled by the talented craftsmen at Eastman Music. Each specialized step is performed by hand to bring out the beauty and tonal complexity of your D or OM.
Sitka spruce is one of the most popular soundboard materials, chosen for its incredible strength to weight ratio, providing you with a guitar, full of resonance and sustain
Indian Rosewood back inside provide rich complexity, full mid ranges, and a touch of natural reverb.
The Vintage series guitars have a classic, tight voice much closer to the “Martin tone” than we’ve found in the comparable Eastman E-Series.
Extraordinary, defined methods of precise size brace carving, and tap, tuning, our process of hand voicing ensures that every guitar we make has a soundboard tha is optimize for tonal capability
Over the last eighty years, the Dreadnought became firmly established as the world’s most popular acoustic guitar. It’s easy to see why. Its deep body, wide upper and lower bouts, exceptionally large air cavity and long, 25.5” scale length combine to set the standard for exceptional projection and low end presence.
Decades ago Dana noticed that during the first few years of a large guitar’s life under string tension, guitar tops “relax” until stretched to their limit, then later “harden” as a result of permanent distortion. During relaxation, bass is boosted and high frequency response dies off, often beyond desirable limits; balance is not restored for years, until hardening occurs. In the 1990s Dana modified the traditional Dreadnought bracing system by scalloping only the bass side of the X brace and lightening its tone bars. The result successfully counteracted a Dreadnought’s tendency to “unbalance”, and over the years has attracted scores of Dreadnought players including Bryan Sutton, Josh Williams, Andy Falco, Courtney Hartman and many others.
D VINTAGE/TS
Soundboard Alaskan Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides Indian Rosewood
Neck 14 Fret Mahogany
Fingerboard Ebony
Scale Lengh 25.5”
Nut Width 1 23/32” – bone
Upper bout width = 11.25″
Lower bout width = 15.5″
Saddle 2.2” – bone
Tuners Schaller Grand Tune Nickel
Bridge Ebony with ivoroid pins
Finish High Gloss
Bracing Adirondack Spruce
