The HD Guitars Start a conversationHandmade in Santa Cruz
One carefully crafted instrument, built around HD’s original hand-turned wood cone and finished one at a time in his redwood mountain workshop.
01Original wood-cone resonator
A carefully crafted resonator with a twist: a hand-turned wooden cone that creates the love child of an archtop and resonator sound with pure vintage aesthetic.
What makes it different
Most resonators get their bark from a metal cone. The Boulder gets its voice out of wood—an original cone turned by hand in HD’s little shop. It is the single thing that sets these guitars apart from the rest.
The tone lands between a vintage archtop and a resonator, and the look follows it: the aesthetic of both, in one instrument. A set of gold foil pickups carries that voice to any room, so you can plug in and play anywhere.
Two years in the makingNo. 01 · The Boulder
The Boulder is the brainchild of two years of design. The body shape began as a drawing chased out in a note app—lines moved and moved again—until the sketch finally became the real thing.
It carries everything HD has been looking for: a total vintage, unmistakably unique sound, with a hand-turned wooden cone, hand-cut inlay, and gold foil pickups for when the room needs it.
Ask about The BoulderSalvage, still running
The hobby outgrew one record player. HD picks through junk yards for scrap radios from the early 1900s and saves whatever would otherwise go to waste—the knobs, the grill cloth, and things of that nature.
Those components are used to highlight the guitars, so the hardware carries real years behind it. Years of collecting, waiting for the right instrument; The Boulder is where the parts finally found their place.