Orders

We are now taking orders for guitars to be delivered in 2024. Prices for most guitars range between $9,200 to $15,000, which includes a custom Ameritage case.

Base price include master grade tops, very highly graded back and sides of traditional super tone woods, including aged Honduras Mahogany and Indian Rosewood. Waverly tuners come standard.

More exotic and rare backs and sides, including Brazilian Rosewood, Koa,, "The Tree" Mahogany, and Madagascar Rosewood are available and priced based on the individual set of wood. Custom features such 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 and Hoffee cases are also available as an option.

We will build a guitar for YOU and are able to customize dozens of specifications and want to get to know your playing style.

Current lead times are approximately 6 months.

georgebowen@comcast.net

925.584.5842

Recently sold

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" SOLD
- 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 SOLD
- 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!

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

georgebowen@comcast.net

my cell: 925 584-5842

The "Resurrection" Guitar

"The Resurrection" guitar's top Certificate of authenticity coming from the ruins of the Munich Frauenkirche ruins.

"The Resurrection" - this alpine spruce was cut down nearly 2 centuries before Stradivarius used the same wood for his violins. After 550 years, nearly 500 of which supported the roof of the Munich cathedral, this wood shows its age and rings like a bell. The rosette is Australian Jarrah, which when finished will have a blood red color representing Christ's shed blood, with a mother of pearl ring

Bowen Stage & Studio Guitars

Orders

Recently sold

2023 Guitar Progress "Presentation Hazelfichte"

The "Resurrection" Guitar

"Mauna Koa"

Orders

Recently sold

2023 Guitar Progress "Presentation Hazelfichte"

The "Resurrection" Guitar

"Mauna Koa"

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