Behind the Scenes at the Bourgeois Guitars Factory with Master Luthier Dana Bourgeois 

I could sit here and watch them go through wood sets all day! Beeswing mahogany is my all-time favorite, looking at those makes me want another beeswing Bourgeois

Dana is a master! This year I got a Bourgeois 00-42 and it’s magical!

I love this sort of content!! Thank you for doing this with Dana, I hope there are more of these videos in the future.

Fascinating and thorough tour. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing!

I actually live less than 20 mins away from this place :) I Applied here for work.

I bought a touchstone signature OM in Holland a few weeks ago. Great guitar.

i am beyond STOKED to find out a Touchstone LDBO is on it's way!

This is truly amazing

Really nice factory tour. Thanks for sharing guys!

Have my eye on an oms victorian with ital spruce but sooooo $$$. Love these guitars.

Amazing! Thanks!

Thanks a lot for this ! Very interesting !

Thank you.

I'd certainly like to have one of their guitars!

Traded in my Martin for a “Banjo Killer”. It’s, well, killer! Thank’s Dana!

rad. you've got a wonderful job, mateo/jandro .. .

"Wood is good." Cosmo Kramer

is Lewiston, Maine in USA ?

you'd have to pull me by my beard out of the woodshop 🥰

Eddie's guitars calls it the Bourgeois "factory". Bourgeois calls it "the workshop".

I have a wonderful guitar coming from his workshop made before the sale to Eastman. The Eastman deal made me skeptical but after the announcement of the Touchstone project I in some way “broke up” with the brand. The concept is to me simply not right. I also believe to see that Dana is not too comfortable when he answers questions in regard to Touchstone.

Dana shouldn’t wear open-toed shoes in a factory. Otherwise, beautiful guitars. Love Bourgeois.

lols. silly jandro @ approx. 37:43 .. . 🤣

I bought a bourgeois guitar last September from a shop in Littleton NH for 7k. It had a body hump, a totally loose truss rod and the nut was not glued also un pleked. An expensive second. I was told that they had had problems with the setup man and his quality of work. Apparently I was meant to pay for their mistakes..The shop offered to fix it and to send it to Pat Deburro, perhaps the best luthier in New England. A lie, as Deburro had retired a year previously. I did not want a repaired second. Repairs take forever. I wanted money back or a replacement..NO. Bourgeois himself wouldn’t respond. Bourgeois initially made great guitars, hide glue et al. But greed stepped in and he sold out to Eastman, a Chinese company. I eventually drove to the factory , picked up the guitar, un repaired,and sold it at a loss. In short , there are so many great And responsible builders, especially in that price range. I’ve had friendly conversations with the heads of Santa Cruz, Collings, martin, Benedetto, but not so with with Bourgeois from whom i bought only because of the proximity to the factory..sloppy, irresponsible work and no Response from Bourgeois. And you dont buy from someone from New York named Solomon’s.

The first guy has no idea what he is talking about!! Let’s see real musicians play their guitars!

kinda anticlimatic to not at least show the finish product?

I'd like to request that we as an industry stop using the word "master" so carelessly. Stradivari and Amati were masters, so lets reserve that term for people on that level and let regular luthiers be regular luthiers without projecting all this other stuff onto them without merit. This video is all good stuff, you throw in the term "master" and now the perspective completely changes to one that's highly critical and now instead of being judged on the merit of their work, I find myself starting from a place of resentment, based on the assertion that this person is comparable to Stradivari... thats what it means when you say "master"... so does using that term really do what you intend? Me thinks not... I'd drop it. Dana is a kickass luthier doing an awesome job, his name carries enough weight, let it stand on its own.

Excellent!!!Thanks!!