Lowden/Flambeau Guitars

Subject: Flambeau Guitar HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From: GUEST,badsun79
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 05:43 PM

hey all cool site
I have a flambeau lfw1-12 guitar but i know nothing about it other then they were designed by the great george lowden for production in japan, and few were made i have taken this to 6 different shops and nobody knows a thing.HELP PLEASE! any help please send it my way its a 12 string in near mint condition with org hardshell case. hit me up at
[e-mail] thanks a million

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Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST,badsun79
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 09:31 AM

hey all cool site
I have a flambeau lfw1-12 guitar but i know nothing about it other then they were designed by the great george lowden for production in japan, and few were made i have taken this to 6 different shops and nobody knows a thing.HELP PLEASE! any help please send it my way its a 12 string in near mint condition with org hardshell case. hit me up at
[e-mail] thanks a million......

21 jan 12
i AM LOOKING TO SELL THIS GUITAR I ANY INTEREST PLEASE E-MAIL ME. I have one in college and well as you all know it's beyond expensive so some herd thinning is required. Please send me fair offers no lowballers i'm an honest guy trying to do the right thing by my son . thanks gang

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 21 Jan 12 - 10:01 AM

Have you tried listing it on eBay? IF you do, send a link. People would no doubt like to see photos, etc.

SRS

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: Tally Ho Man
Date: 03 Feb 12 - 05:51 AM

Hi,

I saw this one, identical to mine, for sale for £625

http://www.ripleyguitars.co.uk/index.php/flambeau-lfw1.html

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Dec 12 - 05:22 PM

Greetings from Alberta, Canada. I just picked up a LFW-4 (serial number 84170) from a pawn shop for $120.00. I think it was made in 1984. Solid spruce top, highly figured tiger-stripe solid back and sides (Ovagkol wood I think). Multi-ply wood bindings with a 3 ply stripe down the middle of the back. Dark wood neck binding. J-50 sloped shouldered dreadnought shape. 16" wide at the lower bout. 5" thick at the lower bout, 4" thick at the upper bout. 25 1/4" scale length. Pinless bridge. Hand carved martin style x-bracing. Georgeous guitar. One of the nicest fingerpicking guitars I've ever heard. Wouldn't sell it for the world.

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: Willie-O
Date: 31 Dec 12 - 07:20 PM

You got lucky, GUEST!
I am considering dealing mine out since I'm not playing it, but it's not going cheap cause I know what I've got, and who played it and loved it!

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST,Ian E.
Date: 09 Jan 13 - 09:00 AM

I've just got a Flambeau LFW-5, I would like to know what woods were used in its construction, ad any other info. about this model.

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST,Carl
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 08:04 PM

What type of undersaddle pick up do I need in my LFW-5? Wide or narrow?

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 16 - 08:50 AM

Ressurecting a thread from the dead here I guess but I have had a Lowden O23 for years and was lucky enough to recently pick up a Flambeau LFW-3C for £60 ($100)...result....I am sure that the pawn shop didn't have a clue about what they had.

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Apr 18 - 10:58 AM

George Lowden designed the Flambeau for the Rose Morris Company in Japan. This was post guitar litigation period, when Fender and Gibson were suing guitar manufacturers in Japan for selling knockoffs of the telecaster, Stratocaster, and the Les Paul. Rose Morris company in Japan commissioned George Lowden to design guitars that were of high quality at a price point that would compete with the American made guitars. There's a hard and fast rule in the marketplace however, you can't spend more than you receive. Flambeau was built from the finest quality materials on the market, but selling in the economy range of the market. So they finally went under. I bought mine in 1980 and played with it on stage for nearly twenty years. It was one of the great joys in my life. Every morning before I left for work I played it for at least an hour. One morning I stood up to watch my children get on the school bus and the guitar strap disconnected and my Flambeau hit the floor. It cracked where the top meets the sides. I've had it repaired in a professional shop, but it's never returned to it's former glory. Five years ago I decided to get a Gibson Studio Pro. I played it a half dozen times and gave it to my granddaughter. My Flambeau and I have too much history to divorce now. I've realized we've both been through a lot, and really I don't sound as good as I used to either. M.y guitar is 38 years old and I am 63, to get mine you'll have to wait and pry it out of my cold dead hands

Subject: RE: Lowden/Flambeau Guitars
From: GUEST,Alf
Date: 04 Jul 21 - 04:13 PM

I have a LFW-1-12 in mint condition. It is very interesting finding out a bit about them, especially how rare they are, even if the brand isn't that well known.
I can't remember what age I was bought mine. I started secondary school (UK) in 1980 & joined the school's guitar club. It was run by my Chemistry teacher, Mrs Vandevever! I started learning on a classical guitar, but a few years later wanted a guitar for my birthday. And I was after a 12 string. It was before 1986 (as that was the year my dad disappeared in the West Indies on holiday). I can't recall which music shop in Belfast, Northern Ireland, my dad brought me to, and I have vague memories of trying out a few other 12 strings, but WOW the sound of this guitar was SO beautiful it was an easy choice. It's now 35 years since my dad's disappearance & my guitar is invaluable to me. I don't play it regularly unfortunately. It's still in it's hard case & is in immaculate condition. My 12 year old daughter is learning on a travel sized dreadnought acoustic & I can't wait to pass it onto her & listen to it sing again.