The BG-252 puts Brazilian Rosewood back and sides on the Bluegrass Goose Dreadnought. The top is AAAA Adirondack red spruce chosen by hand, braced with Adirondack spruce, with a 4.125-inch enlarged soundhole and an elevated top radius. The neck is Boucher's modified V with a 1.75-inch bone nut, and the tapered square headstock carries nickel Gotoh open gear tuners. Brazilian Rosewood figure varies guitar to guitar, and the photos show one example.
Boucher builds the series in Berthier-sur-Mer, Quebec, for bluegrass players on stage and in the studio, and describes the voice as rich lows, driving mids and strong highs that hold their own in a bluegrass band. For the same wood in the OM Hybrid, look at the BG-251. The BG-152 keeps this Dreadnought body in Madagascar Rosewood.
The guitar can be built up with Boucher's option packs for finish, pickup, top grade and trim, listed below.
Options for this model include:
- Burst Pack: a hand-applied sunburst, tobacco burst, open amber burst or black top
- Gold Pack: torrefied Gold Touch top and Gotoh gold open gear tuners (not with the Vintage Pack)
- Intimate Concert Pack: K&K Pure Mini pickup, installed
- Master Grade Pack: master grade Adirondack red spruce top, abalone rosette, koa or maple body binding (not with the Ultimate Pack)
- Prestige Pack: Style-41 abalone trim
- Ultimate Pack: master grade Adirondack red spruce top, koa or maple neck binding, high gloss neck, a choice of fretboard inlays, Gotoh 510 open gear tuners (not with the Master Grade Pack)
- Left-handed build
Price subject to change based on options chosen.
SPECIFICATIONS
BODY
Country of Origin: Canada (built in Berthier-sur-Mer, Quebec)
Body Size: Dreadnought
Neck Joins Body At: 14th fret
Top: AAAA Adirondack red spruce (Picea rubens), hand-selected
Back and Sides: Brazilian Rosewood
Soundhole: Enlarged, 4.125" (105.0 mm)
Body Finish: Gloss
NECK
Neck Profile: Modified V-shape
Width at Nut: 1.750" (44.5 mm); 1.6875" (42.8 mm) on special order
Width at 12th Fret: 2.125" (54.0 mm)
Fret Markers: 2.0 mm dots, B inlaid at the 12th fret
Headstock: Tapered square
Neck Finish: Satin
HARDWARE
String Spacing at Bridge: 2.1875" (55.6 mm)
Nut: Bone
Tuners: Gotoh open gear, nickel
CASE
Case: Hardshell case



