Boswell 2022 OM Brazilian Rosewood, Tunnel 13 Redwood top, Limited Edition

Built by one of the most celebrated active luthiers, Arthur "Butch" Boswell, in his shop in Bend, Oregon. All Boswell guitars come with a hand-written spec sheet and deluxe hardshell case. The top wood of this OM guitar comes from an abandoned railway tunnel in Northern California, where Butch went exploring on a hunch; he thought he might find some incredible wood for building guitars after the success of the findings at another historic railway tunnel in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon, Tunnel 13. (That was where the infamous "last great American train robbery" took place in 1923. It was actually a botched mission that killed several innocent rail workers and jump-started American forensic science, but remains part of old American West lore.) Butch's idea turned out to be extremely fruitful as he discovered a hidden trove of gorgeous old-growth redwood that had been cut down over 150 years before. He and his build partner personally collected and treated each beam of Lost Tunnel red