D’Angelico Releases Signature Brandon Niederauer Atlantic

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D’Angelico has released the new Brandon Niederauer Atlantic, a signature model version of the company's Atlantic single-cutaway solid body electric.

The new model is available in both D’Angelico’s Premier and Deluxe Series. The single-cutaway design boasts basswood top, back and sides and a custom sonic blue finish with satin chrome hardware.

The Deluxe Series version features a maple/walnut/maple neck, pau ferro fingerboard and Seymour Duncan custom DA-59 (neck) and Antiquity (bridge) humbuckers, while the Premier Series counterpart sports a C-shape maple scarf neck, ovangkol fingerboard and Duncan Designed humbuckers.

The Deluxe Brandon Niederauer Atlantic is available for $1,849, while the Premier version sells for $999.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEgqqiScY4

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.

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