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Sullivan Handmade Guitars and State Line Luthier Works

The home of quality handmade guitars, hand built by luthier and master craftsman Jim Sullivan. If your looking for a handmade acoustic guitar with outstanding sound, playability, and attention to detail, then a Sullivan Guitar is the answer to your dreams. Sullivan handmade guitars are truly one of a kind artisan built guitars with the absence of mediocrity. Jim Sullivan uses a special patented bracing system in the side assembly that changes how the guitar works, producing much more volume and superior frequency response in a small bodied guitar. Try a Sullivan handmade acoustic guitar and you'll be hooked for life.

Lil’ Rick (Ricky Howard) Family Fund

If you've ever wanted to own a custom handmade acoustic guitar, be sure to take a look at this special support for Lil’ Rick (Ricky Howard) Family Fund in conjunction with the benefit concert held on Dec. 13th, 2008 at the Community Center in Hartford Kentucky. The Lil' Rick Family Fund will receive donations until 300 donations have been received. To participate download the donation form and send it in ASAP.

For a contribution of $20.00 you can have an opportunity to help Lil’ Rick's family and to own a Sullivan Guitars custom hand made acoustic guitar in a durable Travelite Case. After 300 donations have been received, the drawing for the SMSA-WM-023 will be held and proceeds given to the family of Lil’ Rick.

Bryan Laynes Interview with Jim Sullivan

Bryan Layne, film journalist and writer who writes for several magazines, recently interviewed Jim Sullivan. Click on Bryan Layne's Interview to download the article.

Guitars Currently On Offer


SMSA - 024: This model SMSA features quilted mahogany back and sides with a engelmann spruce top. The back, sides, and neck have a beautiful reddish mahogany sunburst. The guitar has walnut bindings with multiple colored line purflings, top, back, and sides, mitered into the end wedge. Headstock laminate and end wedge are bookmatched, figured walnut. Multiple colored lines under the headstock laminate and heel cap. This guitar also features an S style Indian rosewood bridge. The guitar comes with a Golden Gate deluxe case.
For sale at Artisan Guitars
$5100.00

SMSA-WM - 022: This is another WM (working musician) model that was so popular with the players at the Chet Atkins Appreciation Societies event this past summer. The WM series of the SMSA shape has been built with the working musician in mind. A lot of the fancy trim has been kept simple with the emphasis being put on sound and playability. This guitar features black walnut back and sides with a western red cedar top. Black ebonized bindings with black and white purfling lines front and back. This guitar has a beautiful spalted maple rosette. The neck is solid quarter sawn Honduran mahogany with a nicely figured walnut headstock laminate and heel cap.
For sale at Cotten Music Center
$3100.00

SMSA-WM - 018: This guitar features nicely figured black walnut back and sides with an Alaskan bearclaw sitka spruce top. Traditional style Indian rosewood bridge. Walnut headstock laminate, heel cap and rosette. Black ebonized fiber bindings. The body has a gloss finish with a satin neck. The WM series of the SMSA shape has been built with the working musician in mind. A lot of the fancy trim has been kept simple with the emphasis being put on sound and playability. This guitar comes with a Travelite case. For the money these guitars are the best yet.
For sale at Artisan Guitars
$3100.00



Sullivan Guitars Presents — Rising Stars — Talented Artists From CAAS

View the full acoustic guitar Intonation Fix Video referred to on YouTube.com on our Repairs page.

“Jim Sullivan is one of the best builders of acoustic guitars around! The quality and sound are outstanding! Anyone who is in the market for a great acoustic guitar should give Sullivan guitars a listen.” — Paul YandellVisit our Tribute to Paul Yandell Page

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Sullivan Handmade Guitars and State Line Luthier Works

Sullivan Handmade Guitars and State Line Luthier Works have been located in Portland Tennessee since the mid 1990s. We build handmade guitars, 14 fret, steel string acoustic guitars and electric acoustic guitars and provide expert repair work including customizing, refinishing, re-fretting, and restorations on all types of acoustic guitars and acoustic electric guitars. We also work on mandolins, banjos, and just about anything with strings. So come on in and explore the Sullivan Handmade Guitars and State Line Luthier Works website and feel free to e-mail us with any questions or comments. We respond to all e-mails. Check out our available guitars page to see what handmade acoustic guitars are currently for sale and check our repair page for a list of common repairs with pricing. Thanks for visiting us at Sullivan Handmade Guitars and State Line Luthier Works. Don’t forget to bookmark our site so that you can easily find us next time!

Hear the Quality Sound of a Sullivan Handmade Guitar

Samples are played in the studio by Jim Sullivan on a model SMSA-E Serial No. 0007 handmade acoustic guitar

Click to Hear Sound Byte No. 1Click to Hear Sound Byte No. 2

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Shaun Hopper playing SMSA-E-0007 at CAAS Convention July 2008

Watch for Shaun Hopper and other rising stars on our future "Rising Stars" page on the Sullivan Guitars website.

More details on SMSA-E-0007 available under Examples of
Sullivan Guitars, on the About My Guitars page

Sullivan Handmade Guitars is a proud supporter of the Chet Atkins Appreciation Society (CAAS) Convention to be held each July in Nashville, TN at the Sheraton Music City Hotel. Chet Atkins, "Mr. Guitar", was a multi-faceted guitar player, with a unique musical genius extremely influential in the building of the rich fingerstyle guitar heritage in the US and around the world. Sullivan Handmade Guitars is proud to support the continuation of the Chet Atkins fingerstyle guitar tradition in America. Stop by our table at CAAS and play a Sullivan Handmade Guitar for yourself.

We'll see you all there!

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