D’Angelico has rekindled its relationship with Grateful Dead legend Bobby Weir for a new that has been dubbed the pair’s finest collaborative creation yet. Officially named the Deluxe Bobby Weir 3, the supremely classy is the direct result of years of development and rigorous road-testing, having already seen action onstage during . The semi-hollow stunner has also been tested in various iterations throughout the years, with Weir putting D’Angelico’s creations through their paces on various tours with Wolf Brothers.
Now, the fruits of their labor has been released, with the Deluxe Weir 3 serving as D’Angelico’s “best work yet”. Available in Satin Trans Wine and Matte Stone, the single-cut sports a laminated maple body with five-ply binding, and a C-shape maple/walnut/maple neck that’s topped with a 16”-radius ebony fingerboard. There are a pair of TV Jones DA-Tron pickups which, thanks to four push-pull pots, can produce a huge array of sounds.
Among them is “Weir’s notoriously slinky tones”. These four pots – two volume and two tone knobs – are joined by a three-way selector switch and a master volume control located on the upper bout. “I’ve been on an endless quest to find a tone that makes me really sit up and beg,” Weir says of his newest D’Angelico.
“I don’t remember where it was, but I was on stage at a soundcheck. I plugged it in, cranked it up, and said ‘This is it –this is what I’m looking for.’ I knew it.
” Weir’s.