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1997 Bourgeois Country Boy “Ricky Skaggs”

Original price was: $4,750.00.Current price is: $4,350.00.

This is a very smooth Bourgeois Dreadnaut that is very “opened up”, yet with all the punch when you want it.

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Description

Exc+ Condition  •  #000976
1-3/4″ width at nut  •  2-1/4 pin spacing
Red Spruce top  •  K&K p/u Installed

This amazingly clean 1997 Bourgeois Ricky Skaggs Country Boy is nice in every way. Hardly any signs of playing. But the first time you touch it you realize it is a “fully opened-up” instrument.
It is really clean and original, with excellent grade Mahogany, Red Spruce and Ebony.
The Adirondack Red Spruce top has great figure. The Mahogany also has excellent grain figure. Gabon Ebony fingerboard and bridge. Rosewood Peghead overlay and heelcap.
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Handsome peghead, with Bourgeois pearl logo inlay at top.  Vintage style Kluson copy closed-back tuners. Ebony fingerboard has small dot position markers.
Body has Tortoise outer bindings, with top having multiple purfling lines seen inside the top edge. Ebony bridge has original ivoroid pins and bone intonated “boxed” saddle.

Advanced scalloped bracing. Small Maple bridgeplate. Mahogany end wedge. Ebony end pin. Strap button professionally installed on neck heel.

This guitar is wonderful, exceptional, rare and coveted by some players.
The playability is great and the tone is such that you don’t want to stop playing. Smooth, defined, mature tones.
Comes with the original hard case.