Ryan Guitars
Kevin Ryan "The Kodiak" Nightingale Grand Soloist - Torrefied Sitka Spruce & Macassar Ebony
Listed by Eddie's Guitars · Maplewood, MO
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Specs
- Top
- Sitka Torrefied
- Back / Sides
- Macassar Ebony
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Nightingale
- Scale length
- 25.5"
- Nut width
- 1.75"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Condition
- New
About Ryan Guitars
Ryan Guitars are built in Westminster, California by Kevin Ryan — a former Northrop Aeroscience Lab engineer who started prototyping acoustic guitars in 1987 while his day job built jet fighter scale models for transonic wind tunnel testing. The engineering background shows up everywhere in the work: the Ryan Bevel (the original integrated armrest, since widely copied), Acoustic Flutes sound ports, laser-sculpted bracing patterns, a spherically-arched back. Ryan's catalog reads less like a pre-war tribute and more like a thirty-year argument that the acoustic guitar could still be reimagined through precision tooling and materials thinking. Acoustic Guitar Magazine named Kevin one of the most influential builders of the previous thirty years in 2010 — calling the guitars "a blueprint for scores of other builders" and "a modern classic." The catalog stays small and the queue runs long; each instrument is hand-built in Southern California.
About Eddie's Guitars
Eddie's Guitars is a family-owned shop in Historic Maplewood, Missouri — founded by Ed Putney in 1971 and now operated alongside his son Nathan. Their boutique acoustic catalog runs deep across the modern canon, with particular strength in Bourgeois Custom Shop, Collings, Santa Cruz, Atkin, Goodall, Huss & Dalton, and Froggy Bottom. The shop operates by appointment only, delivering a private demo experience for serious players and collectors.
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