Novelli acoustic guitars are hand built one at a time, with extreme care taken with each phase. Each guitar is worked and tuned by hand until it blossoms into a singing and powerful musical presence. 

We constantly strive to build the lightest guitar possible. In addition to being cosmetically superior, our woods must meet our high structural standards. This enables us to produce a guitar that performs equally well when fingerpicked or strummed hard.

You might catch the occasional ghost of a great Martin or Gibson you once knew, married to the stellar playability, magnificent tone, and striking good looks that is our hallmark.

Novelli acoustic guitars feature:

Bodies

• Solid, hand selected backs and sides.
• Solid, hand selected quartersawn tops.
• Quartersawn spruce bracing, hand carved.

Necks

• Quartersawn, hand carved Honduran and African mahogany necks with quartersawn rosewood and ebony fingerboards.
• Hand cut scarf-jointed headstock, for superior strength, with quartersawn ebony or rosewood headplate veneer.
• Dual action truss rod, easily adjusted from inside the guitar's body.
• A wide selection of pre-hardened frets.
• Mortise and tenon neck attachment, with proprietary hardware connection for vastly increased stability, sustain and resonance.
• Unbound neck, binding with fret end nubs optional.

Finishes

• Shellac basecoat.
• Ultra-thin, gloss nitrocellulose laquer topcoat
• Sunburst optional