ReVIEW
D’ANGELICO’S BOB WEIR SIGNATURE SS ELECTRIC GUITAR Bruce Adolph
Key Features
Tonal Flexibility
Sharp Looking
Compact Bigsby B-50
Two musical legends, D’Angelico (known for
their archtop guitars since 1932) and Bob
Weir of the Grateful Dead (known for their
endless jams and touring ever since the Love
Generation of the 60’s) have teamed together
to make one significant Signature guitar.
This semi-hollow single cutaway Bob Weir
model sports a C-shaped maple neck with 22
jumbo medium frets on a fast playing rosewood
fretboard. The nut width is a comfortable
1&11/16” size.
When Bob worked with the D’Angelico builders quips, “I love the way the D’Angelico’s (pickups) Waxing Grateful Dead-like Bob states, “Any
he wanted his signature guitar to have a few respond. They are so alive, it is almost like artists, of any stripe, is first and foremost a story
features that mattered to him. He desired a having a conversation with someone. I am teller – whether you are doing it with your hands
slightly heavier construction, a whammy bar on happy with how it came out.” or with your voice… it is the story that counts
and the story that illustrates something that is
it (a chrome Bigsby B-50), and he wanted to
be able to split the coils of the