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FOR SALE: Fantastic 2023 Glenn Canin Cedar Doubletop

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Glenn Canin built this guitar for me in December of 2023. It is a spectacular cedar/cedar doubletop with beautifully figured Madagascar rosewood back and sides in excellent condition. If you’ve played Glenn Canin’s guitars, you know that they are compellingly powerful with rich sparkling trebles and dense round basses. This guitar is no exception and represents his best work to date. Part of the appeal of Glenn’s guitars is that the tone quality has the complexity of the best traditional guitars, like Bouchet, Friederich, and Ruck, but with the power, depth, and response of the best modern doubletops. Their rapid response occurs without any loss in the density of the fundamental note, making them both comforting and a joy to play. This is the type of guitar that will make you sound better. It also is effortless to play: perfect action, perfect fret size, and perfectly calibrated intonation. The scale is 650 mm and 51.5 mm at the nut and comes with Kris Barnett tuners and a TKL case.

Famous players all over the world use Glenn’s guitars. With Glenn’s waitlist and demand, here is an opportunity to have one immediately without the 2+ year wait.

There is a listing on Reverb, but I will sell it directly (USA) for $16000. Shipping is $100; I will pay the difference. If you are interested, email me: leo (at) leonardogarcia (dot) org.

Here is a video of it from a concert last year:

My Glenn Canin Guitars for Sale

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Hello Six String Journal Readers,

I’m in the cue to receive some new guitars soon. And my favored builder, Glenn Canin, is making me a guitar with a slightly smaller neck. So I’m offering these guitars for any of you who are interested. Please contact me directly via email if you are interested in details, more pics, and pricing. leo (at) leonardogarcia (dot) org.


Glenn Canin 2018 (#131) – Beautiful cedar/cedar balsa doubletop with elevated fingerboard, custom Rodgers Tuners, and a soundport. All that you would expect from a guitar built by Glenn – powerful concert guitar, wonderful volume, beautiful rich chocolatey sound, well-balanced, strong and resonant trebles, lush basses, super high E string, every note sounds full, quick to react, and fun to play. The woods are absolutely top notch. If I recall, this top was one he acquired from Robert Ruck and the backs and sides are the best Indian rosewood. He built it for me in 2018. 

650mm scale and 52mm nut

Excellent condition. It has a few small marks that are barely noticeable from usual play. Here is a video of it:

Glenn Canin 2011 (#55) – spruce/spruce nomex doubletop with elevated fingerboard, Sloane tuners, soundport. This is the first doubletop Glenn ever built and set him in motion to become one of the sought after doubletop builders in the US. Thick notes, sweet and warm sound but with excellent voice clarity like you would expect from a great spruce guitar, excellent penetrating volume, super easy to play (the back of the neck was oiled instead of polished), and great projection. The top has wonderful bearclaw from the collective where Stadivarius would get his spruce (the video lighting does not show this but I have pics).

650mm scale and 52mm nut

Good condition. Some playing wear on the top with a few small dings, faded polish on the top side and upper back. Here is a video.