“A seriously elegant, feature-rich and capable instrument”: Ornamentation? Check. Booster soundport? Check. Furch’s new Red Series acoustic is the $7,000 guitar that dreams are made of

Furch Red Deluxe GC-LI a 2026.

When we visited Furch’s guitar-making facility near Brno in the Czech Republic a couple of years ago, we were struck by how unapologetically progressive the brand’s approach was.

When we asked if its guitars were all about handmade tradition, the company’s CEO Petr Furch smiled and cheerfully shook his head. Plenty of artisan-quality handwork goes into every Furch guitar, but Petr prefers robots to do the lutherie processes that require total precision and consistency – such as making the company’s innovative neck joints.