Barbarossa Guitars -- SPECIALS AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW!

Barbarossa Guitars

Fine Hand-made Guitars

SPECIALS

Please check out these guitars that I currently have in stock. They are specially priced,

I think you will find them a superb value. They can ship immediately! All include

a nice TKL hardshell case and ground shipping.

Dreadnought with oversized Soundhole

My guitars can also usually be seen and played at:

Northern Pine Studios

NEW! Click HERE for sound clips of my guitars!

NEW! GA in Sitka spruce and highly figured purpleheart, $2000

GA with Sitka spruce top and highly figured purpleheart back and sides. That's the real color

of the wood itself: No color in the finish! Scale: 25.4 inches (D scale), neck 1-13/16 inches at the nut. 2.35

inch string spacing at the bridge. 14 frets to the neck, 19 complete frets and two more partial frets

(please see the photos) for 21 total. Rosette is maple burl with black and white accent strips. Ebony

fretboard and Indian rosewood logo headstock plate. Truss rod access through the headstock.

Indian rosewood bindgin and trim.

Check out that figure in the purpleheart!

This guitar is a cannon: It has a huge gas pedal and the purpleheart gives the tone a huge punch.

Superbly bright trebles and solid full bass and midranges. This is a wonderful sounding guitar!

B00 in Redwood and highly flamed myrtle, $2100

SOLD!

This guitar has found a home with a very happy customer

B00 with redwood top (check the tight perfectly straight and perfectly quarter-sawn grain), and highly

flamed Oregon myrtle back and sides. I call this my Oregon Coast Guitar, since the main woods are

native to the Oregon Coast. Scale: 24.9 inches (000 scale), neck 1-13/16 inches at the nut. 2.35

inch string spacing at the bridge. 12 frets to the neck, 18 complete frets and two more partial frets

(please see the photos) for 20 total. Rosette is flamed koa with blck and white accent strips. Ebony

fretboard and Indian rosewood logo headstock plate. Truss rod access through the headstock.

Figured sycamore binding and trim.

Check out that figure in the myrtle! Side to side deep curl on the back. Myrtle is a wonderful

tone wood and works really well with the redwood top.

This guitar sounds amazing. A perfect fingerstyle guitar. It has the usualy loud, balanced B00

sound; but it also has a special kick in the note attack lent by the redwood top. My wife noted that,

"the notes just seem to pop out of the guitar!" Snappy, bright trebles and strong, balanced mid range

and bass. Please listen to sound clips to get the idea of the typical B00 sound.

NEW! Cutaway Flamenco in bearclaw Sitka spruce and Osage Orange, $2000

This is a highly unusual guitar that I built custom for a gentleman who lost his job in 2008 (constructed

in 2008; I held it hoping he'd be able to complete the purchase). The top is bearclaw Sitka spruce

and the back and sides are Osage orange (sourced from Argentina, where they grow it large enough

for guitar wood.) Both of these woods are excellent choices for a flamenca blanca: Bright and

punchy. I really love Osage orange and I will be building with it more. This guitar has traditional

ebony tuning pegs instead of machines. I hand-taper and fit these pegs and they are really pretty

easy to tune with (they are conditioned with "peg dope" to aid the glide-stick action. Violin experience

comes in handy here!) This guitar also has a soft (Venetian) cutaway with great access to the high frets

and a partial 20th fret. This guitar has a 12-hole tie block on the bridge allowing you to use the 12-hole

tie, which I consider to be a superior tie. Of course, the traditional tie also works with this bridge.

Spainsh cedar neck. Side (only) fretboard markers: 2mm white mother of pearl dots at 5, 7, and 9.

The Osage orange has a little ripple and birdseye figure (see photos). Headstock overlay, binding,

and trim are Indian rosewood.

12 frets to the body, 19 full and one partial fret for a total of 20 frets. Scale is 650 mm. Neck width

at the nut is 2-1/16 inches (approximately 52 mm). String sapcing at the bridge is 2-1/4 inches.

No tap plate; I will add one or two, if desired, at no charge.

This guitar sounds bright and punchy and loud. You can get nice rasgueado snap with it.

It will also sing sweetly if played by the soundhole. You can shake some buzz out of it with the

current set up. If desired, I will supply an additional bridge saddle to provide you the option

of switching to "classical" action height.

(check out that bearclaw!)

Cutaway detail

The inside of the headstock where the

pegs are, is plugged with maple (hardwood) to improve the performance and durability of the pegs holes. This is

entirely hidden (not visible from the outside):

Dreadnought with oversized Soundhole, $1800

HD-28 style dreadnought with Tony Rice - Clarence White style oversized soundhole. These dreads have incredible

power and great balance due to the oversized soundhole. Play it to believe it! This guitar has a big gas pedal

but also the balance to be an excellent fingerstyle guitar (no kidding.)

Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, Honduran mahogany neck, African ebony fretboard,

bone nut and saddle, herringbone rosette and purfling, ebony binding, pinless rosewood or ebony bridge, Gotoh tuners,

truss rod access through soundhole, 1-13/16-inches neck width at the nut, 25.4 inch standard dread scale.

Includes ground shipping the 48 states and TKL model 8915 hardshell case.

Here are the comments from one happy owner of one of my HD-28 style guitars:

"Hi Jim,

I just bought your wonderful guitar from Paramount Guitars. I was not shoping for a new guitar but I accidently

played your hand made guitar. That was probably the best guitar I have ever played. I just wanted to thank you

personally. It has been an unbeliavable experience to actually bring it home. I will take good care of it and if I ever

buy another guitar it will most likely be one of yours. The tone and volume is incredible

Thank you very much,

P.F." March 2007 (oversized soundhole Dreadnought guitar, Sitka spruce and Indian rosewood)

I have 3 of these HUGE sounding guitars currently available!

They are all built to the same specs but of course woods look different. Check out the photos to find your favorite.

Serial numbers D-2, D-3, and D-4 (Don't worry, I've made many more than 4 dreadnoughts! These are of particular trim.)

Dreadnought Serial D-2: