Please Note… This site is under heavy construction for the remainder of 2024. New descriptions/photos/etc. coming soon!
Boswell guitars are generally broken down by size, and grounded firmly in flat-top acoustic guitar tradition. The models offered are listed below. Each model can be modified with custom options (cutaway, sound-port, etc...) to suit the players needs. See ‘Options’ below.
Each instrument is built completely by hand, sourcing only the highest quality, old growth materials possible, and put together with the highest attention to detail. Hide glue is the primary adhesive used, and every instrument is finished in 100% pure, un-catalyzed nitrocellulose lacquer.
Every guitar I make is essentially a “Custom Shop” instrument, meaning, there is no ‘standard’ model. Each one is tailor made. The process requires a solid understanding of what each player is after, and in turn becomes a personal experience for both myself and the customer. Models, options, and wood selection are all just the basic starting point.
**As of Jan, 2023, all Boswell Instruments now start at $15,500, hard case included. Order queue is now closed through 2025**
The models section of the site is currently under construction. Please bear with me while I update my model descriptions, options, and photographs to go along with both. Thank you!
Materials may not be everything when it comes to guitars, but for me, they are certainly near the very top. I constantly search for the highest quality tonewoods on the planet. I don’t always use the oldest stuff around, but why use woods that have been aged artificially when you could possibly find the same material aged naturally? In the case of tonewoods, older is definitely better! Stable, tonally superior, and the grain that builders looked for 75 years ago. It may be a bit more expensive to have wood of this caliber, but well worth it!
Top woods:
Sitka/Engelmann Spruce | Adirondack Spruce | European varietals (German, Italian, Carpathian, etc...) | Tunnel 13/14, Lost Tunnel Redwood | Cedar
Back and Side woods:
Indian Rosewood | Brazilian Rosewood | Madagascar Rosewood | Hawaiian Koa | Honduran Mahogany | Cocobolo Rosewood | African Blackwood (and more)
Fingerboard/Bridge/Peghead Overlay wood COMBINATIONS:
African Ebony | Brazilian Rosewood | Madagascar Rosewood | African Blackwood
Bracing wood
German Spruce | Adirondack Spruce | Sitka Spruce | Redwood (and more)
Boswell Guitars, 15 NW Franklin Ave., Bend, OR 97703