Atkin Essential OM Aged Baked Sitka/Mahogany Natural (Serial #4125)

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!

General:
Brand Name: Atkin
Case Type: Hardshell Case
Hardware Color: Aged Nickel
Made in: Made in the UK
Product Color: Natural
Relic or Aging Level: Aged
Serial Number: 4125
Weight: 3lbs 15oz

Body:
Body Binding: Tortoiseshell
Body Finish: Age Toned Relic Nitrocellulose
Body Material: Mahogany
Body Shape: Orchestra Model
Bracing Pattern: Pre-War Scalloped X-Bracing
Purfling: Black/White/Black
Rosette: Black/White/Black
Top Material: Bakes Sitka Spruce

Neck:
Fingerboard Inlay: Mother of Pearl Dots
Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
Frets to Body: 14
Headstock Inlay or Decal: Atkin Decal
Headstock Veneer: Santos Rosewood
Neck Finish: Age Toned Relic Nitrocellulose
Neck Joint: Set Neck
Neck Material: Mahogany
Number of Frets: 20 Frets
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.6875"
Side Marker Inlay: Silver Dots
Truss Rod: Dual Action

Electronics:

Hardware:
Bridge: Ebony
Pickguard: Tortoise
Saddle Material: Bone
Tuning Machines: Nickel Gotoh