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Doyle Dykes Signature Model
6-String | Spruce Top | Big Leaf Maple Back and Sides | Hard Rock Maple Neck | West African Crelicam Ebony Fretboard | The Claria Acoustic Pickup System Electronics | Florentine Cutaway
6-String | Spruce Top | Big Leaf Maple Back and Sides | Hard Rock Maple... More
UPC: #00887766143970
Note: Each guitar has unique visual traits due to differences in wood grain. Guitars ordered through this website or found in stores may feature minor visual variations from the ones pictured here.
$4,999USD
$4,999USD
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Lifetime Warranty with Registration
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Factory Expert Service & Support
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Responsive customer service from factory experts trained to help you get the most out of your guitar.
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AeroCase Included
Sturdy and protective AeroCase included at no extra charge.
Overview
- Figured maple back & sides yields clear, vibrant tone
- Solid Sitka spruce top for a dynamic response
- Thin-body Grand Auditorium enhances responsiveness
- Slim-carve neck, 24-7/8-inch scale for easy fretting
- Includes Claria electronics and Brown AeroCase
Overview
Doyle Dykes Signature Model
For decades, fingerstyle virtuoso Doyle Dykes has inspired audiences with his masterful touch and musical imagination. This refreshed Doyle Dykes Signature Model, part of our Legacy Collection, revives the distinctive design originally crafted to Doyle’s personal playing specifications. The guitar features a thinner-bodied Grand Auditorium with a Florentine cutaway, pairing figured maple back and sides with a Sitka spruce top for a blend of clarity and projection. Its slim-carve hard rock maple neck and 24-7/8-inch scale length deliver a fast, comfortable feel that makes intricate fingerstyle passages effortless. Visually, the model captures Doyle’s vibrant personality and honors his longtime mentor and friend, Chet Atkins. A transparent orange gloss finish highlights the body and neck, accented by grained ivoroid binding (body, fretboard, headstock, and soundhole), green abalone top trim and rosette with black/cream purfling, and offset mother-of-pearl “Chet”-style thumbnail inlays. A rose motif headstock inlay in mother-of-pearl and green abalone, along with ebony bridge pins with abalone dots, completes the striking aesthetic. Updated for today’s player, this edition includes Taylor’s new Claria System electronics, featuring onboard Volume, Mid-Contour and Tone controls for easy, natural amplified sound in any setting.
Features
The Return of a Fingerstyle Classic
Designed to Doyle Dykes’ exacting specs, this slim Grand Auditorium blends brilliant tone, effortless feel, and bold visual flair.
Big Leaf Maple
Though mostly known as a body wood, maple offers a dry, midrange-centric tone profile when used as a soundboard.
Spruce
The soundboard choice for most guitars, Sitka spruce produces a broad dynamic range and accommodates a versatile range of playing styles.
The Claria Acoustic Pickup System
Designed for reliability and ease of use, the Claria System features a reimagined piezo pickup that delivers clear, versatile acoustic tone for any application.
Florentine Cutaway
A Florentine cutaway comes to a sharp point, creating a horn-like shape. It is commonly used on our Grand Orchestra and Grand Symphony body styles.
Specifications
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Number of Strings 6 String
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Orientation Right Handed
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Body Shape Grand Auditorium (Thin Body)
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Bracing System Standard II, with Relief Route
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Cutaway Florentine Cutaway
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Color Translucent Orange
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Electronics The Claria Acoustic Pickup System
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Questions & Answers
Preguntas frecuentes
3 questions
What is the body depth of the DDSM? It’s listed as a GA (Thin Body) but never gives a number.
GA diameter with GC depth, 4-3/8"
What is the radius of the neck?
15"
DD nut width ?
1 3/4"
Reviews
Rated 5 out of 5 from 1 rating
Sounds like a D 28 Martin as far as the depth wonderful neck easy to play can’t resist picking it up.
My wife bought me this as a marriage gift 23 years ago. So best guitar I’ve ever owned and I owned all of them still on Martin Grech, Fender, mine has the sand rock and green cactus inlay on lower neck