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SkyTop Acoustic Guitars — No Soundhole. No Compromise.
The first thing most players notice about a SkyTop guitar is what isn't there. No soundhole in the top. No circular opening in the center of the spruce or cedar that every acoustic guitar has had since the format was invented. Eric Weigeshoff removed it deliberately, and the decision changes everything about how the instrument sounds, feels, and communicates with the player.
Eric builds from his workshop in New Paltz, New York, in the shadow of the Shawangunk Ridge, with a background in design and film that shapes both the visual philosophy and the conceptual clarity behind every instrument he makes. He approaches guitar building as both an art form and an immersive experience, and the side soundport design that defines Skytop is the purest expression of that philosophy: an instrument engineered to bring the player into the sound rather than projecting it away from them.
The Soundport Design
A conventional top soundhole directs acoustic energy outward toward the audience. A Skytop guitar has no top soundhole at all. Instead, large side-facing soundports direct sound upward toward the player, creating an immersive tonal envelope that surrounds the musician rather than projecting past them. The result, as players who have experienced it consistently describe, is a playing experience unlike any other acoustic guitar: you are simply in it, hearing every nuance of your own playing with extraordinary clarity and depth, while forward projection to the room is not compromised in the least. The structure of the soundboard, uninterrupted by a central soundhole, is also acoustically advantageous, allowing the top to vibrate as a more unified surface and contributing to the instrument's notable sustain and resonance.
The neck profiles are shaped to an electric guitar standard, making Skytop instruments among the most immediately comfortable acoustic guitars for players who spend significant time on both instruments. Multi-scale fretboard options, ranging from 24.9 to 25.5 inches, improve intonation and string tension balance across the full range of the instrument.
The Tonewoods
Eric's tonewood selections are among the most adventurous and visually extraordinary in boutique lutherie. Teredo-holed Sitka spruce, a top milled from logs used to surround lumber rafts on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, in which Teredo shipworms have bored meandering tunnels through the wood leaving unique cross-sectioned patterns visible in the finished top, is one of the most striking tonewoods available on any acoustic guitar at any price. Tunnel Redwood, Sinker Cedar, Bearclaw Sitka spruce, Curly Redwood, and Spalted Zebrawood back and sides have all appeared across the Skytop catalog, alongside more conventional pairings in Sitka spruce, Western Red Cedar, Indian rosewood, African mahogany, and African Blackwood. Every tonewood is chosen for both its acoustic character and its visual story, and no two Skytop guitars ever look alike.
The Models
Mod-P — A modified parlor body with the intimate warmth and focused voice of the small-body format, delivered through the Skytop side soundport design in a package that is as comfortable to hold as any acoustic guitar made.
Grand Concert — The model most widely associated with the Skytop name and the one that first brought Eric to international attention. Yasmin Williams, one of the most innovative fingerstyle guitarists working today, plays a Skytop Grand Concert as her primary instrument, a multi-scale build with a Teredo-holed Sitka spruce top and spalted tamarind back and sides that Acoustic Guitar Magazine featured in a dedicated profile. The Grand Concert delivers a balanced, projecting voice with the intimacy and player-focused tonal envelope that the side soundport design produces at its most refined.
Grand Auditorium — The most projection-forward model in the lineup, with a larger body that delivers more bass response and acoustic volume while retaining the immersive, player-focused character that runs through every Skytop instrument.
All three models are available with cutaway, multi-scale fretboard, arm bevel, and a full range of tonewood upgrades. Standard appointments across the lineup include ebony fretboard, bridge, and headplate, Gotoh 510 tuners, Ebano binding, and a TKL Voyager custom carbon case.
Browse our available SkyTop inventory, and reach out to discuss a custom commission with Eric directly.