The HG-66 brings Canadian Curly Maple to the Heritage Goose 000, a 12-fret body with a torrefied AAAA Adirondack red spruce top. Boucher roasts the spruce, bracing included, to age it, and builds the guitar in Berthier-sur-Mer, Quebec. The series is voiced for fingerstyle, and Boucher says it keeps mid and bass depth with a capo up to the 7th fret.
The 12-fret joint moves the bridge nearer the centre of the lower bout, and the V-shape neck has a 1.750" nut, with 2.250" spacing at the 12th fret on special order. The maple figure varies from one guitar to the next, so the photos show one example. The HG-64 is this maple on the parlor. For the 000 in torrefied flamed maple, the Grande Reserve GR-HG-66T comes in a 3A grade and the GR-HG-166T in 5A, and the SG-61 puts curly maple on the Studio Goose OM Hybrid.
It can be built up with Boucher's option packs for finish, pickups, 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
- 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: 000, 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



