Description

An amazing sounding guitar! Charles Hoffman, a Minneapolis-based luthier who started building handmade acoustic guitars in 1970. This dreadnought was built during America’s Bicentennial, 1976. He built his first guitar while studying for his PhD at the University of Minnesota in 1970. He opens an instrument repair shop with Rod Belville in 1971. In 2008, Hoffman retires from law to dedicate himself to full-time guitar making. He handcrafted acoustic and classical guitars, becoming a respected luthier with clients including notable musicians like Leo Kottke and Tim Sparks. His work has been featured in museums, and he is remembered for mentoring other luthiers. Charles passed away in 2024. This is a fantastic playing and sounding guitar! We replaced 2 frets and dressed all the others, made a new nut for it, removed and reglued a lifting bridge and restrung it, to get it ready for you. The guitar has small chips on the headstock edges and here and there on the body. There is buckle rash on the back of the guitar. The body and some of the neck’s finish is weather checked, pretty much all over. The top also has a few impressions. There is a repaired crack on the back and it looks like the center seam on the top was repaired too. The fingerboard dips some after it hits the body. Overall this rare guitar is in good condition and it comes with a hard case.

• Made by Charles Hoffman in Minneapolis, MN. in November 1976
• Solid spruce top
• Solid mahogany back and sides
• Mahogany/maple/mahogany neck
• Rosewood fretboard and bridge
• 1 11/16″ nut width
• 25 1/2″ scale length
• Schaller tuners
• Rosewood headplate and truss rod cover
• Hard case