D’Angelico NYL-2 Sunburst Archtop guitar

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D’Angelico New Yorker NYL-2 Like New – All Solid woods
Vestax Corp Tokyo, Japan
Neck/Fingerboard Wood: Maple neck and ebony fingerboard
Scale Length: 25 1/2″
Nut Width: 1 11/16″
Weight: 7.0 Lbs.
Finish Color: Natural
Pickup/Control Layout: 1 mini-humbucker/ 1 volume, 1 tone

Features: Flame maple sides and back. Floating mini humbucker. Pearl split block inlay. Grover tuners. Gold hardware. Engraved “stairstep” tailpiece.
Engraved pearl art deco “NEW YORKER” headstock inlay. Cream binding around the body, along the neck, and around the headstock. Ebony bridge with pearl block inlay. Rosewood overlay on the back of the headstock with a pearl diamond inlay. It comes with the original hardshell case.
Condition: Excellent condition. This guitar has been well taken care of and it shows. Aside from that, it’s in great shape and ready to play. The electronics work perfectly. The neck is straight and the frets have minimal wear.
Comments: “The D’Angelico New Yorker has always been synonymous with quality. From the days on Kenmare Street to today, D’Angelico has been the flagship instrument for tone lovers in the world of Jazz. Hand-crafted using only select woods the D’Angelico New Yorker is a statement of the golden era of American design & craftsmanship. Pure tone, excellent playability & elegant looks place the New Yorkers among the most desired for players & collectors alike.”. This is a great archtop

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About D’Angelico

Today´s D´Angelico Guitar is born to perform. We work hard to maintain the exquisite craftsmanship and imaginative techniques learned in the Kenmare Street shop, using only top quality woods and components for each and every one of our models.

We´ve stretched the boundaries of creativity and innovation with bold methods of design and construction: Archtops, Semi-Hollows, Solid-bodies, Flat tops, and Custom-Made. Each D´Angelico is said to have a soul, a personality and a voice.

We are a company owned and managed by musicians, for musicians.

Master luthier John D´Angelico is universally regarded as the finest archtop guitar builder that ever lived. In his Kenmare Street workshop, on New York City´s Lower East Side, he created the first of what would become the standard to which all other guitars would be compared. D´Angelico adapted techniques that had been used for centuries, and then improved these delicate manual processes in order to build the modern instruments demanded by his musician clients. These guitarists often requested special size and structural variations, in the body depth or scale of the neck for example, and that additional features and stylish embellishments are incorporated in the finished design. The marvelous reputation of “D´Angelico-built” guitars quickly spread throughout the musical community, and soon John D´Angelico´s small New York workshop was attracting professional musicians from all over the United States.

During 32 years of production and innovation, the D´Angelico Workshop built 1,164 guitars of exceptional beauty, precision and performance. Although these superb hand-crafted instruments originally sold for prices similar to those of factory-built models, today they are highly collectible, worth many thousands of dollars, and are regularly included in museum and gallery shows as the guitar representative of the high art and design of the Art Deco style.

John D´Angelico was a native New Yorker, and his foremost guitar designs included features in the geometric Art Deco style that was enormously popular in New York at the time, and was widely used for architectural and industrial applications. The signature ziggurat inlay, which appeared on the first New Yorker model headstock, became D´Angelico´s iconic trademark. This “stair-step” motif is actually an Art Deco rendering of the famous New Yorker Hotel. D´Angelico named another of his early models, the Excel, from the New York State slogan, “Excelsior!”

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