D'Angelicos

[jtcnj]

Agreed, but I am using them with Floyd's, so this is a non-issue...

That solves that.
Brilliant!!

 

[chilipeppermaniac]

Richard GEre has an ORIGINAL D'angelico

Founding
Born in New York in 1905 John D'Angelico was apprenticed at the age of nine to his grand uncle Raphael Ciani, an expert violin and mandolin maker.[9] This apprenticeship would become the basis for construction principles he later incorporated into his archtop guitars.[10] After Ciani died D'Angelico took over the management of the business, but he didn't like having to supervise the 15 employees. As a result, he left and founded in 1932 D'Angelico Guitars at 40 Kenmare Street in Manhattan's Little Italy.[1][11]




1933 arch-top guitar

While D'Angelico's craftsmanship was not always exemplary the performance of his guitars established him as the premier marker of archtop guitars.[9] His reputation later brought offers from larger companies, but ultimately he decided to keep his operation under his own name.[10][12] During the late 1930s, when production was at its peak, D'Angelico only had the assistance of two workers.[13][9][12][10] Despite being handmade the company's guitars were no more expensive than similar mass-produced guitars produced by Epiphone and Gibson.[13]

Among D'Angelico's employees were Vincent 'Jimmy' DiSerio, who worked for D'Angelico from 1932-1959, and Jimmy D'Aquisto who joined the company as an apprentice in 1952.[9]

D'Angelico had a heart attack in 1959 and also parted ways with DiSerio who left to work at the Favilla guitar company. As a result, he closed the business but soon reopened it after Jimmy D'Aquisto who was unable to find work, convinced him to do so.[9] After several more heart attacks John D'Angelico died in 1964 at the age of 59.[5] D'Aquisto, then bought the business from the D'Angelico family but a poor business decision lost him the right to the D'Angelico name.[14][15]