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!
Specification
| Top | Baked Sitka Spruce |
| Back & Sides | Mahogany |
| Neck | Mahogany |
| Backstrip | Ebony |
| Headstock Overlay | Santos Rosewood |
| Logo | Atkin Decal |
| Truss Rod | Dual Action |
| Fretboard | Ebony |
| Bridge | Ebony |
| Rosette | Black/White/Black |
| Purfling | Black/White/Black |
| Binding | Tortoiseshell |
| Bracing | Pre-war scalloped |
| Lacquer Finish | Aged Thin Gloss Nitrocellulose |
| Nut & Saddle | Bone |
| Tuners | Nickel Gotoh |
| Side Dot Fretboard Markers | Silver |
| Fret Markers | MOP - Dots |
| Case | Atkin Hard Shell |