A rare early example of the master’s Exel. Model, this has the early spelling and the earlier body size and shape. 3” depth and 16 5/8”,width.slim neck profile. Lovely engraved fret markers and pearl button tuners.The...
When I started taking guitar lessons when I was 12, my teacher was an old Italian gentleman who only played (and only taught) jazz. He would teach me blues or rock but he was pretty much the only teacher in town in...
Fine sounding 1937 Excel by the great and original builder John D’Angelico. An in interesting late 30s example with 30s features and engraved blocks in the board, but one off the earliest curved f hole guitars . (...
A full 18” non cutaway New Yorker. Big full sound . Highly flamed maple back sides and neck. 25 1/2” scale. Extra engraving to the split block fingerboard inlays. One minor repaired crack where the pickguard would be....
1942 D’Angelico Excel, Blonde, Stunning original archtop guitar built by the legendary John D’Angelico himself, Gold hardware art deco headstock, Stairstep bridge, Grover imperial tuners, Stunning Flamed Maple back,...
It is known that John D’Angelico, the most revered maker of carved-top guitars ever to have lived, started out by learning to make mandolins from his uncle, Raphael Ciani, here in the Little Italy neighborhood of New...