The HG-64 is a Heritage Goose parlor in Canadian Curly Maple, with the neck joined at the 12th fret and a torrefied AAAA Adirondack red spruce top. Boucher roasts the top and bracing to age them, a process it calls Gold Touch, and voices the series for fingerstyle, saying it keeps mid and bass depth with a capo up to the 7th fret.
The maple figure varies from guitar to guitar, so the photos show one example. The parlor body sits small on the lap, the 12-fret joint brings the bridge closer to the centre of the lower bout, and a 1.750" nut on a V-shape neck gives fingerpicking room. For maple on the 000 body, look at the HG-66. The Grande Reserve GR-HG-64T is this parlor in torrefied flamed maple in a 3A grade, and the GR-HG-164T goes to 5A.
Boucher's option packs add burst finishes, installed pickups, a master grade top and abalone trim, all listed below.
Options for this model include:
- Burst Pack: a hand-applied sunburst, tobacco burst, open amber burst or black top
- Concert Pack: Fishman Matrix Infinity pickup, installed
- 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 (not with the Master Grade or Ultimate Pack)
- Ultimate Pack: master grade Adirondack red spruce top, a choice of exotic or highly figured back and sides (bubinga, cocobolo, maple, koa, Madagascar rosewood or walnut), koa or maple neck and body 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: Parlor, 12 frets to the body
Neck Joins Body At: 12th fret
Top: Torrefied (Gold Touch) AAAA Adirondack red spruce
Back and Sides: Canadian Curly Maple
Body Finish: Gloss
NECK
Neck Profile: V-shape
Width at Nut: 1.750" (44.5 mm)
Width at 12th Fret: 2.125" (54.0 mm); 2.250" (57.0 mm) on special order
Fret Markers: Diamond style
Headstock: Slotted
Neck Finish: Satin
HARDWARE
Nut: Bone
Tuners: Gotoh open gear, nickel
CASE
Case: Hardshell case



