D’Angelico Quality in a Smaller Semi-hollow
The D’Angelico Excel Mini DC is a highly playable semi-hollowbody electric guitar with killer tone and eye-popping visuals. The Excel Mini DC’s smaller semi-hollow maple body is extremely comfortable and yields a bright, rich, resonant sound with loads of bite and sustain, while a solid center block ensures a feedback-free performance. Equipped with a pair of Seymour Duncan’s acclaimed ’59 humbuckers, the Excel Mini DC serves up a banquet of tone for every occasion, from jazzy cleans to full shred. Navigating this guitar’s comfortable, fast 3-piece C-shaped neck is effortless, as your fingers dance on the smooth-as-glass ebony fingerboard. The Excel Mini DC boasts high-end aesthetic touches such as mother-of-pearl Split Block fingerboard inlays, multi-ply binding and tortoise pickguard, a unique Skyscraper truss rod cover, and elegant gold hardware. If you’re on the hunt for a cross-genre do-it-all semi that will ace any live gig or studio session, the D’Angelico Excel Mini DC deserves your serious consideration.
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Reduced-size body, fast 3-piece neck, and silky fingerboard
Playing the D’Angelico Deluxe Excel Mini DC is sheer joy. It features a reduced-size laminated maple body with a solid center block for maximum tone and sustain. Its 3-piece maple/walnut neck boasts a comfortable C profile, and its satin finish supplies the perfect blend of grip and ease of movement. Its 16"-radius fingerboard features 22 medium-jumbo frets. This silky smooth ebony fretboard enables comfortable chording while facilitating technically demanding leads. The instrument’s easy hand feel is a byproduct of its 24.75" scale length, which makes bends and vibrato feel effortless, while its double cutaway body shape gives you optimized high-register access. For rock-solid tuning stability, the Excel Mini DC is equipped with Grover Super Rotomatic tuners, while a GraphTech TUSQ nut bolsters sustain and eliminates string binding.
Seymour Duncan ’59 pickups deliver holy grail humbucking tone
The D’Angelico Excel Mini DC comes loaded with a set of Seymour Duncan ’59 humbuckers. The ’59 is Duncan’s take on the legendary Seth Lover PAF (Patent Applied For) humbucker. This vintage-inspired pickup is a great all-rounder that delivers warm, full-bodied humbucking tone with crystalline clarity. This potent sonic elixir is routed through a 3-way toggle switch and per-pickup volume and tone controls. For maximum tonal versatility, the tone pots are push/pull, giving you access to a range of snappy single-coil sounds. From jazz and fusion to blues, rock, and country; from chimey rhythm parts to blistering leads — and everything in between — the D’Angelico Excel Mini DC delivers.
The D’Angelico legacy
After mastering his craft during an 18-year apprenticeship, luthier John D’Angelico opened his own shop in Manhattan’s Little Italy in 1932. Catering to New York’s many jazz musicians over the ensuing three decades, D’Angelico and a single apprentice became New York’s foremost stringed instrument builders, creating over one thousand treasured archtop guitars until John’s death in 1964. After his passing, the D’Angelico’s legacy lived on only through his rare, legendary instruments. After decades, the D’Angelico brand has resurfaced, bringing back the playability and attention to detail of the company’s New York roots. Today, Sweetwater is delighted to offer this fine line of distinguished instruments. D’Angelico uses state-of-the-art manufacturing processes and the finest available materials to create playable works of art for today’s guitarist. From a modest shop in Little Italy to the world stage, D’Angelico’s dedication to quality craftsmanship ensures that this brand won’t be going dormant again any time soon.
D’Angelico Guitars Excel Mini DC Semi-hollowbody Electric Guitar Features:
- Laminated flame maple top, back, and sides with center block; gloss finish
- Maple/walnut set neck, C profile; gloss finish
- Bound ebony fingerboard, 16" radius, mother-of-pearl Split Block inlays
- 24.75" scale length; 22 medium-jumbo frets; 1.6875" Tusq nut
- 2 Seymour Duncan ’59 humbucking pickups
- 3-way pickup selector toggle switch
- Bridge and neck Volume and Tone controls
- Push/pull Tone controls for coil-splitting
- Tune-O-Matic bridge with Stopbar tailpiece
- 5-ply body binding; 5-ply tortoise pickguard
- Grover Super Rotomatic tuning machines
- Unique Skyscraper truss rod cover
- Elegant gold hardware
- Dual-Action truss rod, headstock access
