FG9 Acoustic Steel-String Guitar

Acoustic Artistry

Handcrafted in Japan, the extraordinary projection, clarity and responsiveness of our flagship FG/FS9 steel-string acoustic guitars make them ideal instruments for singer-songwriters.

FG9: Overview Video

FS9: Overview Video

Strong Projection and Clear Top End

The FG/FS9 models deliver outstanding projection while providing exceptional clarity and detailed articulation—a unique combination especially suited for accompanying vocals.

Adirondack Spruce Tops with Tapered Edges

FG/FS9 models feature Adirondack spruce top boards with tapered edges, providing structural strength while allowing the body to vibrate more efficiently—a combination that contributes to both power and sensitivity.

Close-up of Adirondack spruce top of the FG9 guitar.

Bolt-On Neck Joint

The neck has a new structural design that combines bolt-on and glued construction to increase body vibration and improve maintainability. Neck and body joints are finished and adjusted with high precision.

Elegant, Understated Japanese Aesthetic

The distinctive fingerboard inlays resemble traditional Japanese Kumiki woodworking while the rope-shaped inlay and purfling on the rosette is a motif deeply rooted in Japanese culture.

Scientific Approach Integrated with Luthier Techniques

When designing the FG/FS9 models, we employed cutting-edge acoustic and 3D-structural measurement processes to more fully understand how physical structure affects acoustic characteristics. Repeated prototypes were built by our custom shop’s skilled luthiers.

FG9: Tone Story Video

Body Shapes and Styles

FG/FS9 models offer two body shapes: dreadnought style for FG and concert style for FS. The FG's larger, broader body responds superbly to strumming, with powerful lows and projective tones, while FS's smaller body produces balanced tone with a sensitive response that enhances subtle and detailed arpeggios.

The FS9 R guitar and FG9 M guitar are pictured upright, at an angle to each other on a white background. The FS9 R is in front, showing its smaller concert-style body and darker rosewood back and sides against the larger dreadnought-style body and lighter mahogany back and sides of the FG9 M.

FG9 Rosewood

FG9 Mahogany

FS9 Rosewood - Strumming

FS9 Rosewood - Fingerpicking

FS9 Mahogany - Strumming

FS9 Mahogany - Fingerpicking

FG9 R + FG9 M | Jordan Tice & Jake Eddy

FG9 M | Jordan Tice

FS9 R | Sophia James

FS9 M | David Ryan Harris

FG9 R

Handcrafted in Japan, the FG9 R steel-string acoustic guitar features an Adirondack spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides—and its extraordinary projection and clarity, even under the hardest strumming, makes it ideal for singer-songwriters.

FG dreadnought-style body shape
Adirondack spruce top
Indian rosewood back and sides
Scalloped X bracing
Bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Bone nut/saddle
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish

FG9 M

Handcrafted in Japan, the FG9 M steel-string acoustic guitar features an Adirondack spruce top and African mahogany back and sides—and its extraordinary projection and clarity, even under the hardest strumming, makes it ideal for singer-songwriters.

FG dreadnought-style body shape
Adirondack spruce top
African mahogany back and sides
Scalloped X bracing
Bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Bone nut/saddle
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish

FS9 R

Handcrafted in Japan, the concert-sized FS9 R features an Adirondack spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides - and its extraordinary projection, clarity and comfort make it ideal for singer-songwriters who play subtle arpeggios or fingerstyle.

FS concert-style body shape
Adirondack spruce top
Indian rosewood back and sides
Scalloped X bracing
Bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Bone nut/saddle
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish

FS9 M

Handcrafted in Japan, the concert-sized FS9 M features an Adirondack spruce top and African mahogany back and sides - and its extraordinary projection, clarity and comfort make it ideal for singer-songwriters who play subtle arpeggios or fingerstyle.

FS concert-style body shape
Adirondack spruce top
African mahogany back and sides
Scalloped X bracing
Bolt-on, one-piece mahogany neck
Ebony fingerboard and bridge
Bone nut/saddle
Nitrocellulose lacquer finish

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