Alvarez Delta OO Tobacco Sunburst Gloss Acoustic Electric Guitar

The Alvarez Artist Blues Series delivers genre-specific instruments to capture the very essence of American music history. Body shapes, bracings and constructions were carefully considered before opening molds for our body shapes and finalizing specifications.

Alvarez Blues guitars have a vintage vibe all the way, with a small rectangle bridge, V profile neck, 2 ¼” string spacing and back shifted bracing to make these smaller-bodied guitars feel and sound just right.

Tonally they deliver the compressed bluesy bark expected from such a design, but the refined back-shifted, scalloped bracing adds more openness for a slightly more modern style projection.

The Delta 00 has a 14th fret neck join to the body, grained ivoroid binding and a perfect vintage burst. It’s a responsive guitar and although suited more towards fingerstyle it takes open chord strumming in its stride.

About Artist Series

Our multi-award winning Artist Series represents our commitment to quality and design, making it one of the finest solid top guitar lines in the world today.

Artist Series feel right and are exciting to play; whether you are strumming hard or picking lightly, the guitar will do what you ask of it. For a more focused sound with fewer overtones, choose a mahogany top. For a more open projection, go for Sitka. For warmth and response to a lighter touch, choose a Cedar top.

All of our tops are selected by our team and graded independently of our suppliers. If it isn’t worthy, we won’t use it. While top quality improves as you move up the Artist Series models, all are stiff and finely grained.

After 55 years of making guitars, continual improvement through the use of emerging technologies, processes, and materials is still at the heart of our culture. Alvarez guitars are constructed correctly in every sense, from raw material preparation to construction and manufacturing processes.

Our tonewoods are carefully cured; our components such as neck blocks and wood joints are carefully designed. The painting, sanding and polishing techniques we use are continually researched and developed, and our tone is impeccably crafted and married to a stable, consistent and lively soundbox.

This caring approach to development comes from one simple goal: To deliver the best guitars in the market at every price point, instruments that are truly amazing value and offer a fantastic player experience.

The term “solid top” refers to the guitar’s soundboard being made of solid wood rather than laminates. However, even when the guitar top is made of solid wood, the tone of the instrument only improves significantly when the whole guitar is built correctly to optimize the energy a solid soundboard can generate. Artist Series is built to do exactly this.

Each model is designed to get the best out of its components, and for them to work together to produce balance, lively projection and great response. These components include our FS6 bracing design, which allows the soundbox to sing and brings uniformity across Dreadnought, Grand Auditorium, OM and Parlor body sizes. This means the voicing has a similar character, but the individual tone is more purely influenced by the size and shape of the guitar.

Our bi-level bridge is designed to heighten string tension and improve sustain and response. Real bone nut and saddle, premium tonewoods, and our crafted attenuated finish all further the quality of construction and positively impact the performance of the instrument. Artist Series gloss models have a clear deep shine from a finish that is applied as thinly as possible to optimize tone. The personality and voicing of Artist Series is open, dynamic and instantly responsive.

Thank you for choosing Alvarez.

KEY FEATURES

• Top WoodSolid A+ Sitka Spruce
• Body FinishTobacco Sunburst/Gloss
• Back and Sides WoodAfrican Mahogany
• ShapeBlues
• NeckMahogany
• Bridge Bi-Level Indian Laurel/Rosewood
• InlaysAbalone & Mother of Pearl
• FingerboardIndian Laurel/Rosewood w/12th Fret Inlay
• Headstock PlateRosewood
• Nut and SaddleReal Bone
• TunerPremium Open Gear Chrome
• BindingIvory ABS
• StringsD'Addario EXP16
• Bracing SystemsFS6 Tapered Tone Bars
• Neck JointDovetail
• Neck Meets Body14th Fret
• Number of Frets21

DIMENSIONS

• Overall Length (mm)1012
• Body Width (mm)374
• Body Depth at Heel (mm)82
• Body Depth at Base (mm)102
• Scale (mm)630
• Scale (inches)24 13/16
• Number of Frets20
• Nut Width (mm)44.45
• Nut Width (inches)1 3/4

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