Bourgeois

Bourgeois

Also known as: Bourgeois Guitars

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Bourgeois Guitars is an American acoustic guitar maker founded by luthier Dana Bourgeois, who built his first instruments in a college dorm room in the early 1970s and established his own company after an earlier partnership in Schoenberg Guitars. The shop operates out of a historic 1850s mill in Lewiston, Maine, where a small team produces a few hundred hand-built steel-string acoustics and ma...

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Bourgeois Guitars is an American acoustic guitar maker founded by luthier Dana Bourgeois, who built his first instruments in a college dorm room in the early 1970s and established his own company after an earlier partnership in Schoenberg Guitars. The shop operates out of a historic 1850s mill in Lewiston, Maine, where a small team produces a few hundred hand-built steel-string acoustics and mandolins each year.

The brand is known for flat-top acoustics with hand-voiced, tap-tuned tops, a proprietary scalloped X-bracing pattern, and a removable bolt-on neck joint. Bourgeois helped popularize the use of torrefied (heat-treated) spruce tops and has championed old-growth Adirondack spruce sourced from the Northeast. Product lines include the Touchstone, Professional, Heirloom, Vintage, and Legacy series across dreadnought, slope-shoulder, OM, and 00 body shapes, alongside M5 mandolins and a Luke Bryan signature slope-D.

The company has long-standing ties to bluegrass and Americana players, with instruments associated with artists such as Tony Rice, Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Sutton, Sierra Hull, and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show.

Bourgeois has 14 products cataloged on Equipboard, including Steel-string Acoustic Guitars and Acoustic-Electric Guitars. Their gear is featured by 4 artists, with the strongest followings in Rock, Folk, World, & Country, and Pop. Notable users include Ray LaMontagne, Eric Clapton, and Afie Jurvanen.

Artists Who Use Bourgeois

Ray LaMontagne uses 4 Bourgeois products

Ray LaMontagne

Guitarist, Singer

Eric Clapton uses 1 Bourgeois product

Eric Clapton

Guitarist · Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes

Afie Jurvanen uses 1 Bourgeois product

Afie Jurvanen

Singer, Guitarist · Bahamas

Monte Pittman uses 1 Bourgeois product

Monte Pittman

Guitarist · Prong

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