Orders

We are now taking orders for guitars to be delivered in 2024. The base price for a Bowen OM is $6,000, which includes a custom Ameritage case, the finest woods including master grade tops, aged AAAA or better back and sides of traditional super tone words including aged Honduras Rosewood and Indian Rosewood,.Waverly tuners come standard. 

More exotic and rare backs and sides, including Brazilian Rosewood, Koa,, "The Tree" (we only have a few sets left), and Madagascar Rosewood are available and priced based on the individual set of wood. Custom features such as such as custom inlay are available at a reasonable up charge reflecting our costs. Every Bowen guitar receives the same attention to detail and comes PLEK'd for perfect action. Calton cases are also available as an option. 

Below are a few pictures of the guitars we are finishing up for 2023. All of these guitars will have "Presentation" appointments including custom Rosettes, Blue Paua or MOP purfling, Brazilian Rosewood, Koa or Bloodwood binding, purfling detail on the fretboard and headstock.

It seems fitting to give each of these guitars its own name.  We are pulling out the stops to make these unique guitars my finest creations, with the rarest of materials, each with its own character and story.  Our goal remains to craft God's most special woods into instruments that bring Joy to the most discriminating player and their audience.  

• "Mauna Koa" 
  • Top - Master Grade Alpine "Moon" Spruce, hand picked during one of my visits to my spruce supplier in Austria
  • Back/Sides - AAAAA Koa (this is the best of the best, one-of-a kind Koa with unbelievable figure)

• "The Resurrection"  A truly one-of-a-kind guitar  
  • Top - 600 year old Alpine Spruce reclaimed from the roof beams of Munich's Frauenkirche Cathedral (dendrochronology dated to have sprouted to life in the year 1081, built in ~1490, bombed in 1944-45, and made into a guitar in 2023)
  • Back/Sides - Extraordinary AAAAA Aged Brazilian Rosewood - very old, perfectly quartered with striking colors .  Brazilian doesn't get better than this!

• "The Tree" 
  • Top - Master Grade aged Alpine "Moon" Spruce 
  • Back/Sides - "The Tree" - A beautifully tortoise shell figured example of the rarest and most sought after of all tonewoods, from the famous Honduran Mahogany simply named, "The Tree".

• "Amazing Grace"  
  • Top - Master Grade Alpine "Moon" Spruce
  • Back/Sides - AAAAA Koa from the stash of my good friend and renowned luthier, Jim Olson. 

Pricing for these guitars will start at $6,250 with a custom Ameritage "Silver" case and $7,000 with a custom Calton case.

georgebowen@comcast.net

my cell: 925 584-5842