Bourgeois Touchstone Country Boy OM

Discover the Bourgeois Touchstone series, a collection of hand-built guitars designed by the legendary Dana Bourgeois. These guitars are crafted with Bourgeois’s 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 the bracing, sourced deep from the northern forests of Maine.

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

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Within the Touchstone series, you’ll find the Vintage and Country Boy guitars, each available in D (dreadnought) and OM models. The difference is as obvious as it is logical: the Vintage guitars feature rosewood sides and back, while the Country Boy models are crafted with mahogany sides and back. And yes, that certainly evokes the familiar designs of the iconic 18- and 28-style guitars. Nothing could be further from the truth; two centuries later, there’s no need to reinvent the wheel. However, Bourgeois and Eastman, as a collective, are certainly striving to create the very best version here.

And could this possibly be the ultimate OM?? Wow, what a sound! The Country Boy OM has the richness and sweetness you hope to find in a small-body guitar like this. It’s wonderful for dynamic fingerstyle playing, no matter how soft you play. Chords sound richer, more harmonious, and creamier than ever. Truly amazing.  

The collaboration between Bourgeois and Eastman turns out to be a brilliant move. The result is the ultimate blend of exceptional quality at an exceptional price. The Touchstone guitars can truly be called high-end player’s guitars and may well leave many of the established brands far behind.

The guitar comes with a hard case and certificate.

Features:

• Top: solid Alaska Sitka Spruce
• Sides and back: solid Mahogany
• Neck: 14 frets, Honduran Mahogany
• Fretboard: Ebony
• Scale length: 25.5"
• Nut: Bone, 1 23/32" (43.66 mm)
• Saddle: Bone, 2.2" (55.88 mm)
• Tuners: Schaller Grand Tune Nickel
• Bridge: Ebony with Ebony bridge pins
• Finish: Truetone Gloss
• Bracing: Adirondack Spruce