Atkin Guitars
Atkin L36 DLX Sitka/Mahogany Parlor Acoustic Guitar #3893
Listed by The Acoustic Shoppe · Springfield, MO
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka
- Back / Sides
- Mahogany
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Indian Rw
- Body shape
- Parlor
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1.6929"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About Atkin Guitars
Atkin Guitars are built in Canterbury, England, founded by Alister Atkin in 1995. What started as a one-man bench has grown into one of the UK's leading boutique acoustic builders — a sixteen-person shop making roughly 750 guitars a year, every one of them hand-built. Their reputation is anchored in pre-war Martin and Gibson replicas (the slope-shouldered "Nineteen" is a flagship), but the catalog spans original designs, an electric line that joined the family in 2020, and a custom shop that builds whatever a player can dream up. The signature finish is an aged nitrocellulose lacquer developed over thirty years — soft, light, designed to check and patina naturally rather than stay perfect, mirroring how a lightly-used vintage instrument ages. Tops have been baked since 2011 for stability and the kind of resin-crystallized character usually associated with old wood. The player roster reads like a UK songwriters' room: Richard Hawley, Robert Plant, Graham Coxon, Kris Drever, Eddi Reader, Elbow.
About The Acoustic Shoppe
The Acoustic Shoppe is a family-owned shop in Springfield, Missouri, run by The Chapmans — a touring bluegrass family. Every serial-numbered instrument gets a 23-point professional setup and individual high-resolution photography before going up, so the listing shows the specific guitar you'd be buying. Their boutique acoustic shelves run deep on Bourgeois and Boucher, alongside Furch, Atkin, Gallagher, and McPherson — a small-shop alternative to the catalog dealers.
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