Alder & Main Dirty Dove

Local guitar-builder Alder & Main was born just a few blocks down the road from our shop in Telluride, Colorado. In their condo's parking garage, husband-and-wife duo Jamie and Christianna Catchpole began experimenting with fine woods and exploring their own intriguing designs. Now relocated to a proper wood shop in nearby Norwood, Colorado, Alder & Main have honed their craft. Using the finest materials and components available, each Alder & Main guitar is built by hand with the utmost care, right here in the San Juan Mountains of Southern Colorado. In the guitar industry, many of us are looking for the lightest weight guitar they can find. The "Dirty Dove" started as Alder & Main's attempt to make the lightest guitar they could, and the result weighs in at 5 lbs 10.9 oz. It starts with Alder & Main's "Leslie" body—a comfortable, smallish-size semi-hollow design with a single cutaway and a precisely-cut Alder leaf that serves as a sound port/f-hole on the bass side