Description
Labelled a D'Angelico Excel SS, this guitar appears on the builder's website as an Excel SS Soho, a thin body cutaway with floating Kent Armstrong pickup, and designed by Mark Whitfield.
This lovely instrument is in very good, clean and original condition with the lightest wear. It plays well and is a very comfortable guitar to play.
Materials and Construction
Pairing a Spruce and Maple laminate body with bound F-holes for feedback rejection and solid Maple and Walnut for the three-piece neck, this beautifully designed instrument also has a bound Ebony fingerboard with split-block Mother of Pearl position markers and an Ebony adjustable height bridge. The headstock features the classic D'Angelico and Excel logos. The fretwire is a medium jumbo Jescar wire with vanishingly light wear.
Hardware and Electronics
This is perhaps the smoothest tuning guitar I've held in quite some time. The tuners are locking Grover 509 Super Rotomatic Locking Tuners with the 'Deco' stair-step buttons. The tailpiece is the classic D'Angelico Stairstep model, and the pickguard is a bound, satin finish Macassar Ebony 'Scalini' style part.
The pickup is a Kent Armstrong Jazzy Joe floating mini humbucker, mounted on the fingerboard end and the pickguard. The volume and tone controls are mounted to the top at the lower end of the treble F-hole, and have ebony knobs with contrasting position markers. The output jack is on the lower treble bout side.
About D'Angelico
From the 1930's when archtops were the apex instruments in the guitar universe, John D'Angelico of New York was at the very top and his instruments were prized by top artists. He rejected a number of buyout offers from larger builders. In 1952, D'Angelico accepted James D'Aquisto as apprentice. John D'Angelico died of heart failure in 1964, having built 1,164 instruments. James D'Aquisto bought the business and carried on under his own name, but unfortunately lost rights to to the D'Angelico brand. Ownership of the name changed hands a few times, with the current owners acquiring the rights in 1999.
In 1988, small numbers of D'Angelico branded guitars built in Japan began to appear, and this continued until 2004. In 2011, the brand was re-launched and work began in design and construction of new models. Production has grown and these modern D'Angelico guitars are very well thought out, well built and reasonably priced - the originals are in the tens of thousands.
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DETAILS:
- Instrument Model: Excel SS Soho
- Instrument Manufacturer: D'Angelico
- Instrument year: 2024
- Instrument Finish: Dark Cherry Burst Gloss
- Instrument Class: Thinline Archtop Electric Guitars
- Instrument serial number: W2400939, built during 2024 possibly by WMI in Incheon, South Korea
- Country of Origin: South Korea
- Instrument Condition: Very Good
- Playing Condition: Very Good
- Right-handed
- CITIES Documentation Required: No
- Instrument Weight Imperial: 6.16 lbs
- Instrument Weight Metric: 2.8 kgs
- Scale Length Imperial: 25.05 in
- Scale Length Metric: 636.5 mm
- Nut Width Imperial: 1.7 in
- Nut Width Metric: 43.16mm
- Case included: Yes
- Case original: Yes
- Case Type: Gig Bag
- Items in Case: N/A
- Consignment: Yes
- Product ID: 190615
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