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D'Angelico Guitars

United States guitar brand

D'Angelico is an American guitar brand rooted in the archtop instruments built by luthier John D'Angelico in New York from the 1930s, today offering archtop, hollow-body, and semi-hollow electric guitars.

Models

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Deluxe Atlantic

    D'Angelico Deluxe Atlantic

    South Korea

    The Deluxe Atlantic is a single-cutaway solid-body electric guitar with an alder body, a set three-piece neck with a satin C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 24.75-inch scale. Two Seymour Duncan Seth Lover humbuckers with coil-splitting feed a nickel tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece. Part of D'Angelico's premium Deluxe series, it offers a warm, vintage-voiced solid-body alternative to the brand's archtops.

  • D'Angelico Excel Series

    The Excel is D'Angelico's vintage-inspired flagship series, built around premium tonewoods and select components and modeled on John D'Angelico's original New York archtop designs. It spans hollow-body archtops, semi-hollow electrics, and acoustic guitars.

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Excel DC

    D'Angelico Excel DC

    South Korea

    The Excel DC is a double-cutaway semi-hollow electric guitar built on a 16-inch laminated flame maple body with a solid center block for added sustain and feedback resistance. It uses a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a pair of USA Seymour Duncan humbuckers with push/pull coil-splitting. A 24.75-inch scale and gold tune-o-matic bridge make it a flexible instrument for jazz, blues, and rock.

  • D'Angelico Premier Series

    The Premier is D'Angelico's most accessible series, offering core models and popular variations at lower price points. It spans semi-hollow, solid-body, archtop hollow-body, and acoustic guitars.

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

    D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

    South Korea

    The Excel EXL-1 is a 17-inch single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar inspired by John D'Angelico's original Excel introduced in 1947. It pairs a laminated spruce top with laminated flame maple back and sides, a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 25.5-inch scale. A single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker, a floating ebony bridge, and the brand's stairstep tailpiece give it a woody, articulate tone for jazz rhythm and lead.

  • D'Angelico Deluxe Series

    The Deluxe is D'Angelico's premium series, pairing the brand's most popular shapes with upgraded custom features and distinctive finishes. It includes solid-body, semi-hollow, and hollow-body electric guitars, along with limited-edition and artist models.

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford

    D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford

    South Korea

    The Deluxe Bedford is an offset-body solid-body electric guitar with an alder body, a three-piece maple-and-walnut neck with a satin C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard with split-block inlays, and a 24.75-inch scale. Two Seymour Duncan stacked P-90 pickups feed a gold Wilkinson six-point tremolo bridge. It is part of D'Angelico's premium Deluxe series.

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Premier SS

    D'Angelico Premier SS

    Indonesia

    The Premier SS is a single-cutaway semi-hollow electric guitar with a 15-inch laminated maple body and a solid center block, a set maple neck with a C-shaped profile, a walnut fingerboard, and a 25-inch scale. Two D'Angelico humbuckers feed a nickel tune-o-matic bridge and stopbar tailpiece. As the brand's most accessible single-cutaway semi-hollow, it brings the SS shape to the Premier series price point.

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Excel SS

    D'Angelico Excel SS

    South Korea

    The Excel SS is a single-cutaway semi-hollow electric guitar with a 15-inch laminated spruce top, maple back and sides, and a solid center block for sustain and feedback control. It uses a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard with split-block inlays, and a 25-inch scale. Two USA Seymour Duncan humbuckers with coil-splitting feed a gold tune-o-matic bridge and the brand's stairstep tailpiece, suiting jazz and roots playing.

Sources

Categories

  • Technical line drawing of Acoustic Guitars

    Acoustic Guitars

    Acoustic steel-string and nylon-string guitars, guitar model families, and related variants.

  • Technical line drawing of Electric Guitars

    Electric Guitars

    Solid-body, semi-hollow, and hollow electric guitars.

Representative model

  • Technical line drawing of D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

    D'Angelico Excel EXL-1

    South Korea

    The Excel EXL-1 is a 17-inch single-cutaway hollow-body archtop electric guitar inspired by John D'Angelico's original Excel introduced in 1947. It pairs a laminated spruce top with laminated flame maple back and sides, a set three-piece neck with a C-shaped profile, an ebony fingerboard, and a 25.5-inch scale. A single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker, a floating ebony bridge, and the brand's stairstep tailpiece give it a woody, articulate tone for jazz rhythm and lead.