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Bad timing, Baden opened for business as the 2008 recession began and they went bankrupt.
As vice president of sales and marketing at Taylor guitars, T.J. Baden helped transform that company from a small, struggling enterprise into one of the world's leading acoustic manufacturers. Now, with the help of partner Errol Antzis, a onetime investment banker and extreme guitar enthusiast, he has gone his own guitar way with a small, select line of acoustics. Baden and Antzis enlisted the service of two renowned European luthiers-Andreas Pichler and Ulrich Tueffel-and all four collaborated on the design of auditorium- and dreadnought-style instruments that are at once modern and traditional.
Baden guitars are constructed at the Ayers factory in Vietnam. Yet unlike most imports-and even high-end domestically made guitars-Badens are hand-built from start to finish, with six French master luthiers overseeing the entire operation. As a result, each guitar is unique, soulful and considerably less costly than an instrument handmade in the United States.
Like all of the company's instruments, the D-style (dreadnought) Baden is constructed entirely of solid woods: a Sitka spruce top, a single-piece mahogany neck and rosewood back and sides. The guitar's binding, bridge, fretboard, heel cap and headstock overlay are all made from rosewood. The lovely woods are the closest thing you'll find to adornment on this guitar; there aren't even any fretboard position makers, just some unobtrusive side dots. If you like 'em minimalist, this guitar's all you.
Bad timing, Baden opened for business as the 2008 recession began and they went bankrupt.
As vice president of sales and marketing at Taylor guitars, T.J. Baden helped transform that company from a small, struggling enterprise into one of the world's leading acoustic manufacturers. Now, with the help of partner Errol Antzis, a onetime investment banker and extreme guitar enthusiast, he has gone his own guitar way with a small, select line of acoustics. Baden and Antzis enlisted the service of two renowned European luthiers-Andreas Pichler and Ulrich Tueffel-and all four collaborated on the design of auditorium- and dreadnought-style instruments that are at once modern and traditional.
Baden guitars are constructed at the Ayers factory in Vietnam. Yet unlike most imports-and even high-end domestically made guitars-Badens are hand-built from start to finish, with six French master luthiers overseeing the entire operation. As a result, each guitar is unique, soulful and considerably less costly than an instrument handmade in the United States.
Like all of the company's instruments, the D-style (dreadnought) Baden is constructed entirely of solid woods: a Sitka spruce top, a single-piece mahogany neck and rosewood back and sides. The guitar's binding, bridge, fretboard, heel cap and headstock overlay are all made from rosewood. The lovely woods are the closest thing you'll find to adornment on this guitar; there aren't even any fretboard position makers, just some unobtrusive side dots. If you like 'em minimalist, this guitar's all you.
