A solid-body electric built with the same woods, hardware, pickups, and antiqued-varnish finish as Retrograde's higher-end archtops, sold exclusively through dealer The Music Emporium.
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Glenn Nichols crafts unique, old-world guitars in Rhode Island, focusing on classic style and hand-rubbed varnishes.
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View all 3 guitars →An archtop that sits between acoustic and electric — hand-carved bracing and classical-style sound ports paired with a floating mini-humbucker, hand-built by Glenn Nichols.
A fully hollow, single-cutaway electric inspired by 1950s-60s department-store catalog guitars, hand-built one at a time by Rhode Island luthier Glenn Nichols.