Goodwin's Guitars, L.L.C.

Listed below is the current inventory of Steel Stringed Instruments. Just scroll down the list. For more detail, you may double click on the smaller photos to open links to larger photos. To close a photo, use the back button, rather than the "x" to close the photo. Using the "x" will close the site. So, please use the back button to stay on the site when viewing the larger linked photos. If you see something that interests you, please call Bob Goodwin at 816-392-2383 or go to the "Contact Us" page and send an email. Additional photos, offering different views and more detail, can be emailed upon request. Please do enjoy studying the offerings here. To purchase a guitar, please give me a call.

Baden A-Style Acoustic Electric $1750



Gibson F-25 Folksinger $1675

Yamaha FG-180 50th Anniversary $1575

Yamaha FG-180 $425

Guild D-25 Black



Blueridge BR-140A $875

Yamaha LL-400 $850

Old Kraftsman Archtop 1946 $475

Yamaha FG-260 12 string-$225



 Indiana Guitar Company "American"  $225





Epiphone Texan FT-145-$215

 

Ventura V-20 $315

Yamaha FG-331 $325

Yamaha FG-730 STBS

Yamaha FG-160

 Yamaha FG-Junior Sunburst

Kentucky KM-1405 Mandolin



Baden A-Style Acoustic Electric $1750 - You may, or may not, know about Baden guitars. As I understand it, the story line is that T.J. Baden, who was with Taylor Guitars, left Taylor and started his own comapny. His original idea was to focus on the tonal essence of the instruments and to eschew ornamentation. As in, it's not how it looks, but it's more about how it plays and how it sounds. A minimalist approach, if you will. And he seemed to have pulled that off, building very plain yet sonically unplain, guitars. And so, a riff occurred. There were those who loved them and then there were those who did not. And then came the second generation of Baden guitars, a bit prettier, fancier, yet still minimallly appointed, and still tonally superior to most.This guitar is of that second generation. It has a little binding. It has a gloss finish. It's back and sides and head facing are beautifully grained Indian rosewood. It has a surround at the soundhole; not quite a rosette, but something to outline and set the soundhole off against the top. I'll weigh in on the argument here and say that I find it to be simply gorgeous. Plain and pretty. Way to go Mr. Baden!
This is a Grand Auditorium style with a deep cutaway. It's made up in the finest of materials. Has a bone nut and saddle and fancy PING tuning machines. It has the Ellipse Aura matrix pickup installed, which I have read is an OEM pickup system that is modeled and optimized to a particular model of guitar and then locked and saved. Then each new instument of that model is fitted with the optimal pickup with the locked and saved settings from the prototype. Pretty cool and it creates an amplified sound that is very natural and authentic.
This A-style plays easily and has great tonal balance. The neck feels perfect and the deep cutaway provides access to frets way on up there. It's is a just a great guitar to play and be heard playing.
It is in very good condition and comes in it's original hardshell case. $1750

Gibson F-25 Folksinger- this early sixties instrument from Gibson is essentially a small-bodied LG-1/B-25 guitar fitted with a two inch wide classical neck, strung in steel. The back story is that Gibson created this model for Joan Baez so that she would have a louder steel-stringed guitar to play for greater volume. I don't know if that is true, but it sounds like it could be. If you play a nylon-stringed classical and would like a similar sized guitar with a wider classical neck, then this fits the bill perfectly. This is the second one that I have had. It's in good condition, plays well, and the action is spot on. It's in a hardshell case. $1675

Yamaha FG-150 50th- You may have noticed that I have quite a few Yamaha guitars in my possession. Checking out my "SOLD" page indicates that I have sold many Yamahas over the years. It is because I started taking lessons, as an adult, on an entry level Yamaha classical that I rented from The Toon Shop in Prairie Village, Kansas. I decided playing guitar was a good thing so I upgraded to a higher quality Yamaha classical in 1996. Long story short, I am kind of a Yamaha devotee. So, when Yamaha came out with the 50th Anniversary FG-180, to commemorate the original steel-string FG-180 from 1968, I just had to buy one. It's a sweet one, beautifully constructed using the highest quality tonewoods and materials. I also have in inventory and original FG-180. It's listed right below. Buy them both. Own the set!

In the original hardshell case from Yamaha. $1575 or $2000 for the pair.

Yamaha FG-180- this is the original 60's FG-180. It is in very good condition and plays well and sounds great. It's been setup by a pro, the action is perfect, it sounds great, and there's just a scratch or two to show it's 50 plus year age.Wonderful guitar. Come's in a hardshell case. $425

Guild D-25 Black- This is a very nice Guild D-25 from the early 80's. It has the much coveted carved violin back. It is in immaculate condition; as they might say in Tennessee (where I am from), there's nary a scratch on the durn thing. Really cool black gloss finish trimmed in white. With the original hardshell Guild case. There is no price because this guitar is not for sale. I put it up here on the site because it is certainly nice to look at.




Blueridge BR-140A $875 A wonderfully sonorous instrument, made up in mahagany for the back and sides and solid Adirondack spruce for the top. Made in China for Saga. I bought this guitar in a pawn shop in Nashville that sells lots of guitars placed in pawn by starving artists and songwriters. It was hanging next to a fairly new Gibson and a older Martin. That gave me a great opportunity to try the new Chinese guitar against a couple of American made classics. This guitar won the battle. It has tone aplenty and really pops under hard attack. I love it. Great guitar. Comes in a hardshell case- $875

 Old Kraftsman Archtop  This guitar was purchased by a friend in 1946 from a Spiegel catalog. This was his first purchase upon returning from World War II. He gave it too me a few years ago because he knows that I love guitars and would appreciate it. When I received it, the neck had pulled off and the top was cracked along the grain. Those two problems have been professionally repaired and this old jazz guitar sounds pretty jazzy. With original wheat-colored fibreboard case, $475. 

Yamaha FG-260 12 String --A Nippon Gakki Japanese made Yamaha. From the early 70's- This is a nicely kept acoustic 12 string. Spruce top and mahogany back and sides. The bridge and fretboard are rosewood and the African Mahogany neck has a slotted headstock. This instrument was pretty pricey back in 1972, retailing for $251. Comes with a brown vinyl covered fiberboard case. Now, available for the 1970's price of $225.




 Indiana Guitar Company "Americana"-- this is a guitar that is suitable for the Fourth of July, Memorial Day, maybe a Toby Keith song, Use your imagination. It is a dreadnaught-sized steel string acoustic. Just look at the pictures and you'll get the full effect. It's easy to play and sounds great. Comes with hardshell case decorated with an American Flag motif. $225

Epiphone Texan FT-145-This is quite the guitar.  I got interested in the Epiphone Texan after reading an article in Guitar Afficianado magazine about the Beatles and their penchant for Epiphone instruments. Paul McCartney famously played an Epiphone Texan on Yesterday. My curiousity was piqued when I found an ad for an Epiphone Texan on Craig's List while vacationing in Florida. I met the seller in a supermarket parking lot. He handed me the guitar and I was astounded by how much it weighed. I was like, "Whoa, this thing is heavy." My second question, upon quick inspection, was, "What is this metal plate on the back? Is it a battery cover? Does it have a pickup?" All legitimate questions upon first handling this Norlin Company version of the Epiphone Texan; the FT-145. Turms out that this '70's Made in Japan gem has a bolt on neck. The extra, unexpected, weight, comes from the large, strong, and heavy, block of wood inside the body. The neck bolts to that block. And, the metal plate is a cover for the access point to the neck bolts. I discovered the answers to my first reaction questions after I had purchased the guitar in the Safeway parking lot and after a bit of internet research. So, how does that all come together and make for a playable instrument. Apparently, very well. It has held up nicely. the spruce top, I believe laminated, has no cracks or significant scratches. The mahogany back and sides are in great shape. The neck is straight, the action is perfect, and the intonation is just right. It has an adjustable saddle, nice white binding, and it plays out great. Very nice, inexpensive dreadnaught-sized acoustic. Comes in it's original chipboard case. $215