![]() Individual Grover 'Rotomatic' tuners with 'stairstep' metal buttons. Black laminate headstock back with pearl diamond inlay. "D'Angelico / New York" and "New / Yorker" elaborately inlaid in pearl, 'Skyscraper' shaped pearl truss-rod cover with three screws and brass 'dome' on top of headstock. Unique D'Angelico carved headstock with Brazilian mahogany laminated face. The neck is triple-bound, and the headstock has five-ply binding. ![]() Three-piece highly-flamed maple neck with two ebony strips. The top and bottom of the body feature an amazing seventeen-ply white and black binding. Two-piece carved curly 'highly flamed' maple back and sides. ![]() Seventeen and a half inch-wide, three and one eighth inch deep body, with a carved one-piece close-grained spruce top with two triple-bound 'f' holes. This single Venetian (round) cutaway with extended treble bout forming a teardrop shape weighs just 6.30 lbs. This incredible guitar is a near exact reproduction of the original 'TearDrop' guitar built by John D'Angelico for Peter Girardi of the 'Tear-Drops' in 1957, which is currently on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (catalog # 67). One of just five D'Angelico 'TearDrop' guitars specially built by Hidesato Shino (Japan's top Luthier) in 2000. One of The Most Beautiful Instruments Ever Built.
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