Huss & Dalton TOM-R Spring Vine Madagascar Rosewood and Bearclaw Italian Spruce Custom

Huss & Dalton’s TOM-R is their traditional flat top OM designed for the versatile mix of flatpicking and fingerpicking. The even response and airy, shimmery qualities the OM has always been known for are maintained and expanded on in this superb custom build, featuring a premium set of Madagascar Rosewood back and sides paired with a Bearclaw Italalian Spruce top with Paua Pearl and Mother of Pearl Spring Vine fretboard, headstock and bridge inlays, Koa full body, fretboard and headstock bindings and more. This combination produces a rich and clear broad sound with warm bass and mids and clear trebles. Great tone from the lightest touch but big and bold with a pick as well perfect for flatpicking in a comfortable body size.This guitar was featured in the November 2024 edition of Garden & Gun Magazine for their 2024 Made In The South Awards, receiving the Crafts Runner-Up Award. This guitar was then displayed with the magazine at the 2025 NAMM Show this January in Anaheim, CA and has now finally made it to our shop and available to you. A beautiful instrument worthy of these accolades.Other features include Adirondack Spruce scalloped bracing, Ebony fretboard and bridge, herringbone top purfling, Madagascar Rosewood headstock overlay, figured Koa heelcap and wedge, zipper backstrip, Nickel Gotoh tuners, Mahogany neck, 1 3/4″ nut width and more.Includes TKL tweed hardshell case and Lifetime Warranty.Free shipping in the continental United States.–2024 Made in the South Awards15th Annual Made in the South AwardsCrafts Runner-Up: Huss & Dalton Guitar Co.TOM-R Acoustic GuitarFREDRIK BRODÉNWhen Huss & Dalton artisans carve acoustic guitars, they choose from a deep reserve of trees: curly maple, known for tiger-stripe striations, or perhaps a centuries-old mahogany log pulled from a river bottom, or reclaimed dying tulip poplars from Monticello. Since 1995, the company’s luthiers have crafted thousands of such guitars, including this timeless, often-customized TOM-R model. Over a two-month build, they might pair a creamy red spruce top with rosewood sides and back before hand inlaying shimmering mother-of-pearl vines on an ebony fingerboard, every detail—including custom cases made by a partner company in nearby Oilville—elevating the instrument. And while owners Brian Dickel (formerly of folk-rock band the Steel Wheels) and Mark and Kimberly Dalton get satisfaction from their craft, it’s ultimately the music that moves them. “It’s great to make something you love,” Mark Dalton says, “and we love playing these guitars.”