About the Guitar:
This series of instruments were produced in a factory in St. Albans, an urban area in southern Hertfordshire and near London, England. Not surprisingly, these instruments were called the Dan Armstrong 'London Woody' series instruments. This helped to differentiate them from the clear acrylic Dan Armstrong instruments made by Ampeg some years earlier.
The guitar called model 341 features solid mahogany bodies and necks. Honduras mahogany treated with an epoxy resin finish was used throughout and has a reddish brown to medium red colour which darkens to a deep reddish-brown with time so no stains were needed.
The body shapes are similar to the clear acrylic models Dan produced with Ampeg some years earlier, as is the scratchplate and the volume/tone knob placement. The scratch-plate is anodised aluminium.
Other features are a combination bridge and tailpiece with a cast aluminium bridge. The bridge is connected to an aluminum ramp that runs from the front of the bridge - to the end of the neck/fingerboard. The pickup is able glide along on this ramp and be positioned anywhere between the end of the neck and the beginning of the bridge. The ramp & sliding pickup were both designed by Kent Armstrong.
This similar feature could already be found on early Framus (see our TYS collection)
The pickups are dual coil hum-bucking pickups that employ adjustable pole pieces on both coils. They are low impedence pickups that utilize a transformer that resides within the control cavity of the instrument to adapt the signal to high impedance for use with the input stage of a guitar amplifier.
The scale of the guitar is 25.5" with 22 frets.
A interesting and innovative instrument!
