This 2016 Jang OM in Cocobolo and Italian Spruce has everything you need to better explore fingerstyle guitar. With a 25.4″ scale and 1 3/4″ nut over a C profile neck, this OM feels familiar at the first touch; playability isn’t a question of “how good is it,” but rather, “How can it be this good?” The Uchida-style cutaway and bevel make for easy fretting across the upper registers while striking a contemporary chord in the aesthetics department. Isaac must have an impressive stash of wood in his shop: the Cocobolo back and sides are darkly gorgeous, matched neatly by a creamy, tight-grained Italian Spruce top. We enjoyed playing this OM in standard, but boy did this Jang become a beast of another order once we dropped it down into DADGAD! The faint treble overtones swelled, the bass strings crisp but fat, the overall voice velvet-smooth. Response time is almost nil; by the time you put fingertip to string the guitar will already be singing loudly.
Here’s Dustin Furlow playing this 2016 Isaac Jang OM: https://youtu.be/LdQ6CYDgBT4
Here’s an additional demo with our own Al Petteway: https://youtu.be/jMpVf5dWedY