DAngelico Deluxe Atlantic Matte Walnut

Technical review: DAngelico Deluxe Atlantic Matte Walnut

The DAngelico Deluxe Atlantic Matte Walnut is a solid-body electric guitar with a swamp ash back and sides, a flamed maple top, and a three-piece maple, walnut, and maple neck. Its listed price is 945; the supplied specifications do not state a currency. The model has been available since May 2021, and its item number is 514524. No customer reviews are available, so this assessment is based solely on the listed construction and hardware.

The combination of a figured maple top and swamp ash body gives the instrument a clearly defined wood specification, but those materials alone do not establish how a particular guitar will sound or feel. The finish is Matte Walnut, with a brown color listing. A seven-ply body binding outlines the body, while a five-ply-bound pickguard is styled with an F-hole motif. That detail is decorative; the provided specifications do not describe a hollow body or acoustic construction.

Neck, scale, and fingerboard

The neck uses three pieces of wood in a maple, walnut, maple arrangement. Its fingerboard is ebony, with split-block inlays made from mother-of-pearl and abalone. The specification lists 22 frets and a scale length of 629 mm, approximately 24.8 inches. Nut width is 43 mm. These measurements give useful points of comparison when evaluating fit against another guitar, though they do not reveal neck depth, profile, fret dimensions, or setup.

Those missing details matter to players choosing an instrument by feel. No neck profile is supplied, and there is no information about fret material, fingerboard radius, or factory action. The three-piece neck construction and ebony fingerboard are material details, not a substitute for those measurements. Anyone who needs a particular neck shape or string height should confirm the individual instrument's setup before buying.

Pickups and controls

The pickup set consists of USA Seymour Duncan Seth Lover A4 humbuckers at both the neck and bridge positions. The guitar has two volume controls and two tone controls, with push-pull function on the tone controls. A three-way toggle selects pickup combinations. The specifications do not identify what each push-pull control switches, so the exact available coil or wiring options should be verified with DAngelico or a dealer rather than assumed.

The matched neck and bridge pickup models offer a straightforward two-humbucker layout, with separate volume and tone adjustment for each pickup. The three-way toggle provides the standard selection points for neck, bridge, or both pickups, based on the stated arrangement. The maker does not provide output measurements, wiring diagrams, or a detailed description of the pickup voicing in the supplied data. As a result, claims about brightness, sustain, or suitability for a particular genre would go beyond the evidence.

Bridge, tuners, and included case

Hardware includes a nickel Tune-O-Matic bridge and a D'Angelico stopbar tailpiece. Grover Super Rotomatic locking machine heads are listed, along with nickel-finished hardware. The locking tuners are a specific feature of the configuration, but the information does not specify the locking mechanism's design or include a claim about tuning stability. There is no tremolo system listed.

The guitar includes a case, while a gig bag is not included. That distinction is useful when comparing packages: the listed contents specify a case rather than both types of protection. The output connection is an EG2P Switch Craft mono jack. The combination of a conventional bridge and stopbar, a mono output, and a three-way pickup selector makes the hardware layout relatively easy to identify from the specifications, without requiring assumptions about additional switching or onboard electronics.

What the specifications establish

On paper, the Deluxe Atlantic Matte Walnut is defined by its flamed maple top, swamp ash body, ebony fingerboard, three-piece neck, and two USA Seymour Duncan Seth Lover A4 humbuckers. Its 629 mm scale, 43 mm nut width, 22 frets, locking tuners, and included case provide concrete comparison points. At the listed price of 945, prospective buyers should check the currency, current price, and exact package with the seller because those details are not established in the supplied data.

This is a specification-based assessment, not a report of hands-on testing or owner experience. The available information does not include weight, body dimensions, neck profile, setup measurements, or a demonstration of the push-pull functions. Those are the practical gaps to investigate before purchase. The product details identify a specific wood and hardware package, but a playing or sound judgment would require direct evaluation of the instrument.