Found this lengthy article on AcousticGuitar.com featuring 5 small-scale luthiers who build dreadnought acoustics. The picture to the left is a dreadnought built by Rockbridge Guitars, featured in the article.

For this article, we talked to five luthiers who specialize in making traditional dreadnoughts: guitarmakers who spend most of their time refining the details of a tried-and-true design—tweaking bracing patterns and materials, voicing tops, trying out various glue and finish materials—to get the optimal sound out of their instruments. Most of them are players who, when the lutherie bug bit, based their models on the instruments they were familiar with—or the vaunted vintage specimens they dreamed about: 1930s and ’40s Martin dreadnoughts and their slope-shoulder Gibson-made counterparts. Not surprisingly, their customers are traditionally oriented as well, often requesting the prized tonewood combination of Adirondack (red) spruce and Brazilian rosewood used in Martin’s early D-28′s but unafraid of innovation when it can enhance the instrument. A couple of the luthiers we talked to have even experimented by combining Gibson and Martin design specs. But however much they choose to adhere to tradition, all of their work is done to satisfy players who consider the traditional dreadnought the perfect guitar but who also want the most-playable, best-sounding instrument their money can buy.