2015 D’Angelico EXL-1 with upgrades Johnny Smith Yamano because it sounds great

because it sounds great

Warm and rich

Martin's groundbreaking Retro Series represents the most significant advancement of our era in amplified acoustic sound

5" Neck Carve Medium 'C'

The trestle brace design directly couples the neck and tail block

2015 D’Angelico EXL-1 with upgrades Johnny Smith Yamano because it sounds greatThis beautiful Korean made D'Angelico EXL 1 started it's life as an EXL 1A around 2016. We recently modified it to EXL 1 specs. The floating Johnny Smith mini humbucker was sourced directly from Seymour Duncan and it's replacement pickguard sourced directly from D'Angelico. The volume and tone pots are the hard to find mini CTS, and the capacitor is the highly regarded Sozo type and the tone knobs are Gibson (see pics). The stock piezo was eliminated