Doug HawkeyConcert Model2023

This 2023 Doug Hawkey concert guitar offers substantial power and depth across the registers, pairing spruce and Indian rosewood in an early example of the maker’s work.

An early career concert guitar by a luthier of great promise. One that defies expectations given the luthiers relatively low output.

Doug Hawkey’s concert model delivers incredible power and depth in all registers. There is a glorious weighted feeling to every note, with immense musical resonance that is well sustained. Despite this cavernous depth of tone, there is also a keen sense of definition and clarity, caressing and shaping each note into a bell like tone. Sustain is excellent, both individually and with notes played as part of a chord/arpeggio.

Doug Hawkey’s concert guitar offers a instrument of supreme tonal quality that delivers well above it’s price tag. Having only turned his hand to luthiery in retirement, it’s the absence of a long career, and the reputation that would come with it, that prevents this guitar from being listed at a much higher price.