THE REBIRTH OF AN ICON

In 1932, John D’Angelico started making guitars in a workshop in New York, and over the following decades, he would earn a reputation for making some of the finest and most ornate archtop guitars of the era. The company entered a troubled time after D’Angelico’s death in 1964 at the age of just 59, and while his apprentice Jimmy D’Aquisto kept hand-building guitars in the way he was taught, the brand would soon join the ranks of great guitar names lost to history.

But then in 2011, the brand returned under the