D'Angelico Excel 59 Solid Black

An Excel in a "hollow" format designed for modern playing

With the Excel 59, D'Angelico offers a hollow body with a very "vintage" style, but designed to remain manageable as soon as you turn up the volume. The center block reinforces stability, limits feedback, and provides a more direct feel under the fingers, while maintaining the acoustic presence and typical elegance of large-bodied guitars.

For whom, and in which styles

This D'Angelico is aimed at intermediate to advanced guitarists looking for an expressive and nuanced guitar. Its hollow body with a cutaway is perfectly suited for jazz, blues, soul, vintage rock, and indie, offering easier access to the higher frets for upper-neck phrases and singing solos.

The sound

The combination of a spruce top and maple back/sides highlights a quick response, great projection, and clear highs, with firm lows. The center block adds sustain and tightens the attack, helping to maintain definition even with gain or effects. The two P-90s deliver that much sought-after character: a warm and woody neck pickup ideal for rich chords, and a sharper bridge pickup perfect for riffs and leads. Control remains simple and effective thanks to volume and tone knobs paired with a 3-position selector switch.

Recommended compatible accessories

To stay as close as possible to the original setup, a standard mono jack cable and a set of electric strings 10-46 (as specified by the manufacturer) are safe choices. Since the case is included, you already have an appropriate transport solution.

Technical specifications

Electronics: microphone configuration	P90 P90	Bridge / tailpiece	Fixed
Category	Hollow body	Electronics	Passive
Left handed	No	Electroacoustic	No
Strings	Steel	Color	Black
Nbr of strings	6	Finishing	Glossy
Nbrs of frets	22	Hardware	Gold

Type	hollow body guitar	Neck thickness	1st fret 20 mm / 0.79"; 12th fret 22 mm / 0.87"
Center block	yes	Truss rod	double action
Cutaway	yes	Tuners	Grover 150 Imperial
Top	spruce	Bridge	Gold Tune-O-Matic
Back and sides	maple	Tailpiece	D'Angelico stepped
Body thickness	1" / 25.4 mm (manufacturer data: 2.54 cm)	Pickguard	Tortoise Scalini (5-ply)
Width	16" / 406 mm (manufacturer data: 40.6 cm)	Neck and bridge pickups	Seymour Duncan D'Angelico Great Dane P-90 (cream cover)
Binding	5-ply	Magnets	Alnico V
Profile	C	Controls	volume and tone
Construction	3-piece glued neck (maple/walnut/maple)	Selector	3-position switch
Fingerboard	ebony	Output	standard mono jack
Radius	16" / 406 mm	Power	not required (passive electronics)
Inlays	"small diamonds" (acrylic)	Finish	Solid Black
Nut	Tusq, 43 mm / 1.69"	Delivered in	case
Scale length	25" / 635 mm	Weight	10 kg (manufacturer data)
Frets	22