The Excel EXL-1 Throwback from D'Angelico has been beautifully crafted in design to offer and create that antique Jazz-style tone encompassed in a luxury Hollowbody, semi-acoustic-style tone. All complete with a branded hardshell case.
A vintage spin on our flagship model, the Excel EXL-1 Throwback embodies the legacy of fine archtops. A 17-inch-wide, 3-inch-deep body emanates warm, woody archtop tone propelled by a single floating Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith mini-humbucker. And visually—it's hard to look away. Old-school full-fret mother-of-pearl fingerboard inlays on an ebony fingerboard lead to a scroll-style headstock designed by John D'Angelico in the 30s, while a satin ebony pickguard meets a spruce top featuring multi-bound Throwback f-holes.
Specification
- Model: Excel EXL-1 Throwback
- Colour: Vintage Natural
- Material: Maple
- Finish: High-gloss polyurethane
- Shape: Single cut
- Top: Laminated Spruce
- Neck profile: C
- Scale Length: 25.5 inches (648 mm)
- Fretboard: Ebony
- Fretboard radius: 16 inches (406 mm)
- Number of frets: 20
- Nut material: Bone
- Bridge: Floating Ebony w/ D'Angelico Stairstep
- Hardware: Gilded
- Machine heads: Grover Super Rotomatic
- Strings: D’Angelico Electrozinc Jazz 12’s (12-52)
- Neck Pickup: USA Seymour Duncan Johnny Smith Floating Mini-Humbucker
- Controls: 1x volume, 1x tone
