Custom maple & spruce 15″ David Dart archtop guitar

Photo credit — Geoffrey Yenson (www.yensonguitars.com / Instagram @yensonguitars)

After building carved top & back mandolin-family instruments for over fifty years, David built this custom archtop with a 15″ lower bout for our friend Dan, a talented musician and composer.

  • Western maple back, sides, and neck (Oregon)
  • Sitka spruce top (Ketchikan, Alaska)
  • Indian ebony fingerboard, tailpiece, binding, finger rest, & peghead overlay Boxwood bridge
  • Waverly tuners
  • Abalone “vine” peghead inlay
  • Satin finish
  • 15” lower bout
  • 25-3⁄8” scale
  • 1-7⁄8” nut width