Hand-crafted in Canterbury, Kent by Alister Atkin and his small team of talented luthiers, the Essential OM is always a favourite of ours and this one is fantastic.
About the Atkin Essential OM:
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. Mahogany back and sides are complimented by a lightweight mahogany neck with a rosewood 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!
Specifications:
- TOP: Baked Sitka Spruce
- BACK & SIDES: Mahogany
- NECK: Mahogany
- HEADSTOCK OVERLAY: Santos Rosewood
- LOGO: Atkin Decal
- TRUSS ROD: Dual Action
- FRETBOARD: Ebony
- BRIDGE: Ebony
- ROSETTE: Black/White/Black
- BRACING: Pre-war scalloped bracing
- BINDING: Tortoishell
- LACQUER FINISH: Aged Thin Gloss Nitrocellulose
- NUT: 1 11/16" Bone
- SCALE: 25.4"
- TUNERS:Nickel Gotoh
- FRET MARKERS: Mother of Pearl
- CASE: Atkin TKL Hardshell
Weight: 3lbs 13.5oz/1.74kg
***PHOTOS ARE OF THE ACTUAL GUITAR IN STOCK***