100% HAND MADE IN CANTERBURY - ENGLAND

With the new Essential OM, we’re offering 100% Atkin tone – stripped down to the bare essentials!

The Essential OM offers 100% Atkin tone – stripped down to the bare essentials! Each Essential OM sports a North American Sitka spruce top and braced with pre-war scalloped bracing, all of which is baked in house here at Atkin. Mahogany back and sides are complimented by a lightweight mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard

The OM, or “Orchestra Model” combines a full scale length with a slightly scaled down body – it is narrower and shallower than a “D” style guitar like our White Rice or Essential D. The challenge for all OM builders is to allow for a rich, commanding bass in spite of the smaller, more ergonomic body, and our hand-scalloped bracing and torrified select Sitka top allows us to make this a reality.

This isn’t a slavish vintage copy though: We’ve departed in several ways from the classic pre-war style: A larger top dome, our lifetime-guaranteed neck/body joint, and a two-way truss rod are among the changes, so this isn’t a historical reproduction, but a modern British-made guitar with heaps of mojo!

Specifications
Top - Baked Sitka Spruce
Back & Sides - Mahogany
Neck - Mahogany
Backstrip - Ebony
Headstock Overlay - Santos Rosewood
Logo - Atkin Decal
Truss Rod - Dual Action
Fretboard - Ebony
Bridge - Ebony
Rosette - Black/White/Black
Purfling - Black/White/Black
Binding - Tortoiseshell
Bracing - Pre-war scalloped
Lacquer Finish - Aged Thin Gloss Nitrocellulose
Nut & Saddle - Bone
Tuners - Nickel Gotoh
Side Dot Fretboard Markers - Silver
Fret Markers - MOP Dots
Case - Atkin Hard Shell

Dimensions
Body Length - 20"
Body Depth - 4 1/8"
Lower Bout Width - 15"
Total Length - 40 1/4"
Scale Length - 25.4"
Nut Width - 1 11/16"