Atkin J43 Forty Three Black Pearloid acoustic guitar. Atkin Guitars was founded in Canterbury, England, in 1995. Still in Canterbury, they build around 350 guitars a year, each one still handmade. The J43 has built with Baked solid Sitka spruce top and solid maple back and sides. Baked top ensures that the top is exposed to heat and pressure, so that it has already lost much of its moisture to this treatment. The result is a guitar with a played in character like an older vintage acoustic guitar. The scale length is (24.9"), neck is mahogany with bone nut and saddle. It has ebony fingerboard and bridge, aged nitrocellulose finish, nickel Kluson tuners. J43 is perfect for strumming play style and fingerstyle solo players, it has less bass response than standard Dreadnought shape guitars but still has the same dynamic headroom, it has really well balanced overall sounding. It comes with Atkin hardcase.