Buying guide · updated September 2026
Choosing a Furch series
Furch names its ranges by colour, which tells you nothing until someone explains the ladder. Here is what separates each one, how to decode a model name, and which ones are actually on the wall in Fishers right now.
How to read a Furch model name
Every Furch model name is the same three things in a row: the series, the body shape, and a two-letter wood pair. "Yellow Gc SR" is the Yellow series, a Grand Auditorium with a cutaway, in Sitka spruce over Indian rosewood. Once you can read it, the whole wall makes sense.
| Body shape | D dreadnought · OM orchestra model · G grand auditorium. A lower-case c means a cutaway: Dc, OMc, Gc. |
| SR | Sitka spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides — the most common pairing in the range. |
| LR | Alpine spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides. |
| CR | Western red cedar top, Indian rosewood back and sides. |
| SM | Sitka spruce top, African mahogany back and sides. |
| RR | Indian rosewood top as well as back and sides — the Dark Yellow signature. |
| SP / SF | Sitka spruce over padauk, and Sitka spruce over flamed maple. |
| Trailing codes | SB is sunburst, SL a slotted headstock, -12 and -9 the string count. Anthem names a fitted L.R. Baggs pickup; EAS, SPA and SPE are Furch option codes — ask and we will read the exact spec off the label. |
The colour ladder
The colours are a ladder of materials and appointments, not of body shapes — you can get most shapes in most series. Furch's own descriptions are the clearest guide to where each one sits, so those are what is quoted below.
| Green | "High-quality acoustic guitar made from carefully selected solid woods." All-solid construction at the entry to the range, in a full-pore satin finish rather than gloss. |
| Yellow | "Acoustic guitar made from high-quality solid woods," in full-pore high gloss with abalone appointments. The volume seller, and the series with the widest choice of shapes and woods. |
| Dark Yellow | Yellow's sibling built around an all-rosewood body — rosewood top as well as back and sides. A different voice rather than a step up: more overtone, more shimmer. |
| Orange | "Premium acoustic guitar made from solid tonewoods" with AAA-grade materials — the step where wood grading starts being called out. |
| Red | "First-class acoustic guitar made for the most discerning guitarists," with premium master-grade tonewoods. This is where the range stops being about specification and starts being about selection. |
| Deluxe (Yellow, Dark Yellow, Red) | Furch calls the Deluxe models "one of our most technologically advanced guitars"; the Red Deluxe it calls "the proverbial icing on the cake in our portfolio," with abalone and koa appointments. |
| Vintage 2 and Vintage 3 | "Acoustic guitar with a traditional design" — a separate line rather than a rung on the colour ladder, in a full-pore vintage hand-brushed finish. Vintage 2 uses AAA-grade woods, Vintage 3 master-grade. |
| Master's Choice | Not a series but a designation offered within Yellow, Orange and Red, built around individually selected soundboards. A Yellow Master's Choice and a Red Master's Choice are very different guitars at very different prices. |
On the wall right now
Live from our inventory — this table is built at every deploy, so it reflects what is genuinely available rather than what we had last month.
| Green | 1 in stock · $1,850 |
| Yellow | 11 in stock · $2,515–$3,133 |
| Yellow Plus | 1 in stock · $2,748 |
| Yellow Deluxe | 1 in stock · $3,103 |
| Dark Yellow | 7 in stock · $2,692–$3,029 |
| Dark Yellow Deluxe | 1 in stock · $3,010 |
| Orange | 1 in stock · $2,699 |
| Vintage 2 | 1 in stock · $2,994 |
| Vintage 3 | 6 in stock · $3,181–$3,663 |
| Red | 16 in stock · $3,799–$4,439 |
| Red Deluxe | 2 in stock · $4,773–$5,179 |
| Edition Forty | 1 in stock · $7,899 |
What every one of them shares
Across the range Furch fits the same core engineering: the CNR System neck joint, individually voiced soundboards, and a full-pore finish chosen to help the top resonate rather than damp it. The Bevel Duo armrest and a Hiscox hardshell case appear from the upper series onward.
That matters when you are choosing, because it means the difference between Green and Red is materials, grading and appointments — not a cheaper way of building a guitar. There is no bad rung on this ladder.
How we would actually pick
Start with the body shape, not the colour. A dreadnought and an orchestra model are further apart in feel than a Yellow and a Red of the same shape, and shape is the thing you cannot change later.
Then pick the wood pair for the job. Rosewood backs for overtone and depth under fingerstyle; mahogany for a drier, more focused voice that sits well behind a singer; cedar tops for immediacy at low volume.
Only then worry about the colour. Going up the ladder buys you grading and appointments — a more consistent, better-selected version of the guitar you already chose.
Every guitar we ship is set up on our bench first, whichever rung it came from. If you tell us what you play and how hard you play it, we will set the action for that rather than to a factory default.