Description
Description
Founded in Canterbury, England, in 1995, Atkin Guitars' uses a combination of traditional techniques and a little modern technology to handcraft around 350 guitars a year, all emanating the indefinable qualities that delight, surprise, and inspire us even after decades as players.
The Essential OM offers 100% Atkin tone – stripped down to the bare essentials! Each Essential OM sports a North American Sitka spruce top and braced with pre-war scalloped bracing, all of which is baked in house here at Atkin. Mahogany back and sides are complimented by a lightweight mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard
The OM, or “Orchestra Model” combines a full scale length with a slightly scaled down body – it is narrower and shallower than a “D” style guitar like our White Rice or Essential D. The challenge for all OM builders is to allow for a rich, commanding bass in spite of the smaller, more ergonomic body, and our hand-scalloped bracing and torrified select Sitka top allows us to make this a reality.
This isn’t a slavish vintage copy though: We’ve departed in several ways from the classic pre-war style: A larger top dome, our lifetime-guaranteed neck/body joint, and a two-way truss rod are among the changes, so this isn’t a historical reproduction, but a modern British-made guitar with heaps of mojo!
Serial Number#: 2757
Weight: 3lbs 13oz
Body Material: Mahogany
Top Material: Sitka Spruce
Body Color: Natural
Body Finish: Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Relic/Aging Level: Aged
Body Binding: Tortoise
Rosette: Black/White/Black
Purfling: Black/White Celluloid
Bracing Pattern: Pre-War Scalloped X-Bracing
Bracing Material: Spruce
Acoustic Cutaway: No Cutaway
Neck Material: Mahogany
Neck Joint: Set Neck
Scale Length: 25.4
Fingerboard Material: Santos Rosewood
Fingerboard Inlay: Mother of Pearl Dots
Fingerboard Radius: 16"
Side Marker Inlay: Silver Steel
Number of Frets: 20
Frets to Body: 14
Nut Width: 1.75"
Nut Material: Bone
Factory Tuning: E Standard (E-A-D-G-B-E)
Tuning Machines: Gotoh Nickel
Hardware Color: Aged Nickel
Saddle Material: Bone
Pickguard: Tortoiseshell
Case: Hardshell Case