Dowina is an up and coming acoustic brand from Slovakia, situated in Eastern Europe! This region has been know for it’s violin and other instrument making for centuries! Each acoustic is handmade by a small shop of experience luthiers, one at a time! This first batch has had all the tops hand voiced by the founder of Dowina, Stanislav Petko Marinov!

This is the first time any of us have play a Macacauba back and sides guitar and we were very impressed! We’d compare it to rosewood, with a little less of a boomy bass response. The cedar top helps give it a fairly even response, but with very nice volume that you don’t typically get with cedar!

From Dowina’s Website:

Macacauba, the wood used for the guitar’s back and sides, can be highly variable – from bright red to purplish brown, symmetrical or with interesting patterns. If you go for a Merlot, you can be sure that you have have a one of a kind guitar.

Specs:

Exotic Macacauba back and sides

Swiss Spruce top/ Cedar/ Sitka/

Abalone rosette, Logo, 12th fret intarsion

3 pcs Khaya Mahogany Neck with reinforcement

Ebony fretboard,Headplate, Ebony or Rosewood Bridge

Ebony binding on Body

Open Pore finish

Grover Gold Machine heads & Ebony buttons

D’addario XS coated 12/53 strings

Dowina is an up and coming acoustic brand from Slovakia, situated in Eastern Europe! This region has been know for it’s violin and other instrument making for centuries! Each acoustic is handmade by a small shop of experience luthiers, one at a time! This first batch has had all the tops hand voiced by the founder of Dowina, Stanislav Petko Marinov!

This is the first time any of us have play a Macacauba back and sides guitar and we were very impressed! We’d compare it to rosewood, with a little less of a boomy bass response. The cedar top helps give it a fairly even response, but with very nice volume that you don’t typically get with cedar!

From Dowina’s Website:

Macacauba, the wood used for the guitar’s back and sides, can be highly variable – from bright red to purplish brown, symmetrical or with interesting patterns. If you go for a Merlot, you can be sure that you have have a one of a kind guitar.

Specs:

Exotic Macacauba back and sides

Swiss Spruce top/ Cedar/ Sitka/

Abalone rosette, Logo, 12th fret intarsion

3 pcs Khaya Mahogany Neck with reinforcement

Ebony fretboard,Headplate, Ebony or Rosewood Bridge

Ebony binding on Body

Open Pore finish

Grover Gold Machine heads & Ebony buttons

D’addario XS coated 12/53 strings