GOWEN DC
Our double-cutaway guitar.
GOWEN DC(i)
S-S-S or H-S-S double cutaway guitar
GOWEN DC(ii)
(awaiting product photography)
H-H double cutaway guitar
The DC is our version of a highly contoured 'super-strat' body, which we offer in either 628mm or 648mm scale length.
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Our DC guitars are available in a choice of different solid woods, with or without tops, and with the option to specify humbuckers, single coils, or a combination of pickup types. All Gowen pickups can be custom-wound and voiced to order.
from £2499 for a single wood, S-S-S or H-S-S guitar​​
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from £2325 for a single wood, H-H guitar
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All our guitars are individually priced, starting at around £2325 for a new DC(ii) shape guitar in a solid wood body with front and rear contours, including a twin humbucker pick-ups.
Standard DC bodies are normally made from Cherry, Alder, London Plane, Ash, Walnut or Mahogany / Sapele, with more expensive woods and figured tops adding to the base cost of the instrument.
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Our DC(ii) guitars now come fitted with our own Gowen 57-59 PAF+ humbuckers. We've developed these in partnership with one of the UK's top boutique pickup manufacturers to create a unique pickup voicing to our own specification.
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A DC(ii) with twin humbuckers comes with:
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​Gowen 57-59 PAF+ Bridge Pickup (9.5k)
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628 or 648mm scale-length 12" radius neck*
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Gotoh 501 tuners
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Schaller Hardtail Bridge
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CTS/Bourns switches and 500k pots
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.022uf (600v) Orange Drop Capacitor
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Schaller straplocks
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Gowen Tweed case​​​
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Options for wood finishes include:
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Osmo hardwax satin oil finish (our standard finish)
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Nitrocellulose lacquer lustre / silk finish
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Tru-oil gloss finish
We'll advise on recommended finishes for your chosen body woods. All our necks are finished in satin Osmo or silk Nitro finishes.
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Contact us to get an estimate for a guitar build.​
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Jump to the full SC specifications
DC(i) in English yew with H-S-S pickups, 628mm scale length.
DC(i) in English holly with H-S-S pickups, 628mm scale length.
Model History
Our first DC prototype was completed in 2023 - a single piece of English Yew from Richmond, West London carved into a thin-line, double cutaway super-strat shape with H-S-S pickups from Gemini Pickups and Seymour Duncan with a 628mm scale neck (sycamore and ebony). Lucy Gowen has used our first prototype as one of her main professional guitars for the last 3 years and to date it's completed over 150 shows and gigs.
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In 2024 we completed a second test DC for Lucy Gowen, again with H-S-S pickups from Gemini Pickups and Seymour Duncan, this time carved from a single slab of Holly from the Isle of Wight and with a 648mm scale neck.
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We're now fitting our Gowen 57-59 PAF+ humbuckers to our DC guitars as standard pickups for a humbucker guitar, with an option for customers to request custom windings.​