Bourgeois Touchstone Country Boy D

Meet the Bourgeois Touchstone series, a collection of hand-built guitars designed by icon, Dana Bourgeois. These guitars are crafted with Bourgeois' signature attention to detail, bringing his legendary sound and craftsmanship to more players than ever before.

Drawing on his half-century of experience as a luthier, Dana and his team carefully select Alaskan Sitka Spruce for the tops and Adirondack Spruce for bracing material, deep from Maine's northern forests.

The Touchstone series is a very close collaboration between Bourgeois Guitars and Eastman Music Company. After the Touchstone tops are prepared by Dana, they are vacuum-sealed and shipped to Eastman's workshop, where a select group of Eastman's luthiers -carefully trained by Dana Bourgious himself in tonal philosophy and construction methodology- integrate the tops into Dana's designs and bring each guitar to life.

Within the Touchstone series, you'll find the Vintage and Country Boy guitars, each in a D (dreadnought) and OM version. The difference is as obvious as it is logical; the Vintage guitars have rosewood sides and back, the Country Boy's are made with mahogany sides and back. And yes, that smells like the familiar recipes of the iconic 18 and 28 style guitars. And nothing could be further from the truth; no need to reinvent the wheel after two centuries of course. However, as a collective, Bourgeois and Eastman do attempt the very best version.

With its mahogany sides and back, this County Boy dreadnought is perhaps the ultimate flatpicker's guitar. It is a bit less loud and direct than the Vintage version with rosewood sides and back, making it much less in-your-face, especially if you are a "chord-strummer." Where the Vintage D is slightly "cocky," this Country Boy D is much more subtle.

The Bourgeois and Eastman collaboration is proving to be a brilliant move. The result is the ultimate blend of exceptional quality at an exceptional price. The Touchstone guitars can rightly be called true hi-end-players' guitars and perhaps leave many of the establishments very far behind.

The guitar comes including hard case and certificate.