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Screenprint landscape with a handmade resonator guitar, mountain workshop, and Santa Cruz coast

Handmade in Santa Cruz, California

Where wood
finds
its voice.

The Boulder: a wood-cone resonator built by hand where the redwood mountains meet the sea.

Explore The Boulder
Handmade by HDSanta Cruz · California
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Made to
make art

An original voice

Wood that speaks.

HD hand-selects every piece of wood, cuts each inlay, and turns The Boulder’s wooden cone in his small mountain shop. The result blends the range of a vintage archtop with a resonator’s unmistakable voice.

The HD GuitarsSanta Cruz · California

The one and only

Meet the
Boulder.

The Boulder handmade wood-cone resonator guitar among Santa Cruz redwoodsNo. 01

Wood cone · Gold foil pickups

The Boulder

A carefully crafted resonator with a twist: a hand-turned wooden cone. It is the love child of an archtop and a resonator, with a pure vintage aesthetic and a voice all its own.

  • Hand-turned wood cone
  • Hand-cut inlay
  • Repurposed vintage radio parts
  • Gold foil pickups
Discover The Boulder

A resonator reimagined

Old radio soul.
A voice of its own.

Early-1900s radio components meet HD’s hand-turned wooden cone and hand-cut inlay in an instrument built for art—and built to make it.

The Boulder wood-cone resonator on HD’s workbenchFrom HD’s workbenchBuilt by hand.
Illustrated portrait of The Boulder resonator guitarWood cone · hand-cut inlayThe Boulder

Your instrument awaits

Find your voice.

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