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This 1954 D’Angelico Excel was made to the exact specs of the Chuck Wayne 1949 D’Angelico Offered for sale by the original owner. Just reduced from $29,500 for a blonde Excel Cutaway! We have the original order form specifying exact same specs as Chuck Wayne’s DA Excel made for Chuck A, one of Chuck W’s students.
Zero fret 1.61″ at the Cast aluminum nut and 2.04″ at the 12th fret. The entire guitar is lined wth green felt exactly as Chuck Waynes 1949 Excel. Green felt f hole removable covers to match the interior felt. This D’Angelico has a P90 pickup is installed as per the original order signed by John D’Angelico which involved making a rectangular cutout in the top for the P90. The P90 is hold in place by only one screw, the volume and tone knobs are also held on with one screw in the top, and a top hole with a removable plug installed. WE have been told that John made seven, just seven, carved top (NOT Codes or United bodies) Excels with cutouts, parallel braced, for a pickup making this a very rare original John D’Angelico Excel. It may be one of the rarest D’Angelico and first Excel that John built with a set pickup. The laminated D’Angelicos sold in the mid 20 K range making this a great value at this price.
This is a description CHUCK WAYNES 1949 D’ANGELICO EXCEL which sold at Christies for approximately $35,000
D’ANGELICO
A 1949 JOHN D’ANGELICO EXCEL ARCHTOP ACOUSTIC GUITAR SERIAL NO. 1861 IN A SUNBURST FINISH.
Single cutaway maple body with multiple bindings, carved spruce top with bound f holes, maple neck, twenty fret bound ebony fingerboard with block inlays and zero fret, headstock inlaid with D’Angelico New York and Excel motif, Grover tuners, ebony bridge, tailpiece and pickguard. With black hardshell case.
This guitar has been owned by Chuck Wayne throughout his playing career. It has the original receipt from D’Angelico made out to Charles Wayne, 589 Walton Ave, Bronx 51, New York, dated November 10th 1949, specifying one D’Angelico Excel Cutaway, serial no. 1861, $650. It is featured on the cover of Chuck Wayne’s album String Fever and has been used on recordings with Tony Bennet, Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Simms, Tommy Flanagan and many other artists. The D’Angelico full size hollow bodies were originated by the great and only John D’Angelico. Their design is unique and timeless. Instantly you know it is a D’Angelico. It cannot be mistaken for any other guitar with its stair step tailpiece, and unique headstock design including the center finial.
This 1954 D’Angelico Blonde Excel Cutaway- THIS IS THE REAL DEAL! If you have the touch, this is the guitar!
A Magnificent sounding D’Angelico Cutaway made in 1954. This archtop is all original including the finish There is center seam line that appears to be very stable with no separation. Great profile and medium fullness and fast as glass. Chrome D’Angelico stairstep tailpiece.16 3/4” wide. Binding in good shape except a small piece missing at the end of the neck, small replaced piece on first fret, and minor separation in the waist as shown on the photos. The next to last photo shows a hole in the top that has a removable plug in it. The last photo is of the guitar being played in the 60’s and shows the 2 holes in the top were for the original volume and tone knobs installed when the guitar was order. This would be very easy to restore to the original 1954 “Chuck Wayne” D’Angelico as it was delivered by just adding the volume and tone controls ito the holes that were made for them and installing a P 90. These guitars were selling as high as $60,000 in their heyda
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