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OM models

OM models — video still
Video still: Carter Vintage Backstage
MakerBourgeois Guitars
OriginUnited States
Typeacoustic · OM
Maker founded1990
Statuscurrent

The OM-sized acoustics from Bourgeois, a small American shop building hand-voiced instruments to order.

Watch

YouTube video Carter Vintage Backstage · 2019-10 — An OM Vintage Deluxe in Adirondack spruce and rosewood, played in the Carter Vintage showroom.

Why it matters

Bourgeois builds its OM and 000 sizes by hand, with the tops voiced by Dana Bourgeois and his team in Lewiston, Maine. The line splits into tiers, including the Touchstone series and the Professional series, and the differences show up in woods, bracing and finish. Bourgeois does not publish a list price and sells through dealers, so this entry records none.

Note

OM and 000 builds.

Specifications

  • Scale length: unknown
  • Neck shape: C/V

Before you buy

  • No published list price, so figures come from individual dealers
  • the tiers differ in woods and appointments, not only cosmetics
  • small-shop guitars are often ordered to spec, so expect a wait

Other opinions

One video is one opinion. These are the other videos for this entry, most-viewed first. The order is the view count, not a ranking of ours.

  • YouTube video Peghead Nation · 2024-05 · 3,204 views

    “The Bourgeois OM Signature/TS is an Orchestra Model guitar that's part of the company's Touchstone line.”

    Fingerpicked and flatpicked passages on a Bourgeois OM Signature/TS.

  • YouTube video Bourgeois Guitars · 2026-08 · 585 views

    “A cornerstone of the Bourgeois lineup for decades, the Vintage model features hand selected Sitka spruce and the highest available grade of East Indian Rosewood.”

    Short factory demo of the Professional Series OM Vintage.

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