Martin

This beautiful guitar (one of the prettiest Martin ever designed) is  in excellent with the addition of a later teardrop shaped pickguard in faux tortoise shell (the original version of the 00-21NY had no pickguard). The back of this guitar is extraordinary – old growth, straight-grained Brazilian rosewood of the type we all yearn to find.  The bookmatched sides show a small amount of swirl.  

This guitar is $6181 with a Cash Discount Price of $5995 but it is presently "on hold" for a customer.  Please send an email if you'd like to be notified when we find another one.   <stan@mandolinbros.com> 

The OMC-16GTE acoustic-electric guitar boasts a venetian cutaway on the OM platform, a body style that presents strong lower midranges and versatile dynamics. Constructed with solid sapele back and sides and a Sitka spruce top finished in a polished gloss, the OMC-16GTE guitar's shape allows for great player comfort while its extra depth contributes presence, projection and power to the tone.

The Martin List Price is $2199

This gorgeous 14-fret Dreadnought is made with rare cocobolo tonewood from Mexico, which delivers beautiful bell-like tones. It comes with the new Custom Shop Thin Finish package. Only 125 of these instruments will be made for the world in 2012.

The Martin List Price is $6999

This gorgeous 12-fret Dreadnought is made with sinker mahogany from Belize and topped with Adirondack Spruce. The design is inspired by a 1933 Ditson 111 currently in the Martin Museum. Finished in the New Custom Shop Thin Finish package, only 75 of these instruments will be made for the world in 2012.

The Martin List Price is $6499

The 00CXAE Black cutaway acoustic-electric guitar has been carefully engineered for versatility and ease of play. It offers high-quality design in a thin-body format, with Fishman electronics and a Stratabond neck. Constructed with laminate (HPL) top, back and sides in a jet-black finish that sizzles in the limelight, the 00CXAE Black affirms Martin's commitment to providing an affordable and competitive option to players dedicated to live performance.

The Martin List Price is $899

This fine, cutaway, Orchestra Model guitar has a cutaway – which few Martin OMs have – and was built with European flamed maple on the back and sides.  It sports a Sitka spruce top, ebony fingerboard and bridge, a modified Low Oval neck shape, 25.4” long scale, 1 ¾” nut width and the Fishman Ellipse Blend pickup system  This guitar is exceptionally clean condition showing a minimum of signs of playing time; the cellophane is still on the tortoise shell plastic abbreviated teardrop shaped pickguard.

Back in 2006 a customer had the vision and good taste to ask us to order him, from the Martin Custom Shop, a rather special guitar – a cutaway (soft, Venetian) version of the modestly appointed yet exceptional sounding OM-21, having scalloped bracing, and the appointments of the regular OM-21.

One of the most popular of all of C F Martin’s new guitars has, for us, been this very model – the wonderful HD-28V.  The V means Vintage and there are many features of this instrument attributable to the prewar period.  These include the squared headstock, the old style black bordered, burnished gold “C F Martin & Co., Est. 1833” headstock decal logo, the butterbean button nickel-plated open-gear tuners, the etched diamond mother of pearl fingerboard inlays

The CF Martin List Price is $4099.

When the work that our service department is performing on this classic and classy vintage instrument is completed, it will metamorphosize into a killer acoustic instrument that knows no remorse.   For starters, it sports its original six Grover Rotomatic tuners with large nickel-plated metal buttons and “Pat. Pend. U.S.A.” etched on the back plates.  I suppose you’ll want to know this, so I’ll just spit it out:  the tuner screws are rusted but the tuners can be trusted.  Should not be such a crisis, 'cause you know that the price is: $5,928 at our Discount Price, or, at our Cash Discount Price, $5750.

More Than You Really Needed to Know Department:  Why, yes, this model is called the Model D-28 – no surprise there; it is constructed with mahogany blocks/dovetail neck joint; its top would be solid Sitka spruce usually deriving from North America; it has the rosette of a Style 28.  It's back, sides and peghead overlay hail from Eastern India.

The Martin List Price is $2999

This is a mind-blowing guitar, a veritable errand boy for rhythm – and it will send you!   It’s right at home in the Bluegrass and Country idioms but also excels at fingerstyle, singer-songwriter or the exotic musical journeys of Fahey, Kaukonen, Kottke and Hedges.   In every way it opens up new vistas for creative expression.

Constructed with solid FSC® Certified sapele back and sides and a solid FSC® Certified Recycled Sitka spruce top finished in a polished gloss. This certification ensures that the wood used to make the guitar is harvested responsibly with very little effect on the environment. Features Fishman electronics with striking aesthetics, player comfort and versatility combined for solo, stage or studio performance. True plug in, tune up and play system provides an amazing mix of simplicity and functionality.

The Martin List Price is $1799

This extremely fine sounding and beautiful instrument is, on its sides and back, imbued with the lovely and memorable image of Hawaiian Koa .

Model: GPCPA3
Construction: Mortise/Tenon Neck Joint
Body Size: Grand Performance 14 Fret Cutaway
Top: Solid Sitka Spruce
Rosette: Two Ring
Top Bracing Pattern: Hybrid ''X'' Scalloped

The Martin List Price is $2599

Behold the basic model Martin ukulele – one of the most standard of ukes – and yet extremely classy and professional in all of the ways that matter.    It has a solid mahogany top, back, sides, neck, including the front of the headstock.   Features include a Brazilian rosewood fingerboard (displaying some exceptionally pretty grain) and Brazilian bridge; having four “machine” tuners (also called “patent pegs”) that have metal clad shafts (not to brag or anything) and black buttons that could be wood, or Bakelite or plastic (celluloid).

One of the most simple yet beautiful Martin designs is that of the all mahogany body (and mahogany back of the neck) Grand Concert Style 00-17. Considered a large-body guitar in a time when 000- were rare and Dreadnoughts did not exist, the first 00-17 that had a serial number came out in 1908.

There are few guitars as simple yet elegant than the C F Martin Style O-18.  Nothing fancy, but man, it takes care of the business of making beautiful acoustic music right along side the most legendary small-bodied guitars of the past century.   We anticipate that, when this comes up from repair in mid to late summer 2012, the sound quality of this mahogany and spruce six-string Concert Sized celestial confection will be simply stupendous!

This guitar presently has a $100 "Right of First Refusal" deposit on it; please let us know if you'd like to be notified if this customer passes.

This 63 year old tower of power has a voice that is deafening, thunderous, an irresistible force - similar in dynamism and velocity to a runaway locomotive.  When it emerges from the nether regions, this fall, it will meet all of the requirements for being, as Mr. Monroe used to say, a true and genuine “Hoss.”   The instrument will reside in the workshop for six months, but, in the meantime, anybody wishing to place a $100 “Right of First Refusal” deposit on it will be the only person to be notified when it comes up.  OUR PRICE WAS $12,887 BUT NOW: 

The C F Martin Company introduced the world to the Orchestra Model in 1929 and made it for five years, to 1933.   In 1934, right after the OM was discontinued, the Martin Company resumed making their famous “000” or Auditorium model that shared the same body dimensions as the OM.  Now that 14-fret guitars with long scale necks had been embraced with great enthusiasm by the general public (Martin had sold 487 Brazilian rosewood OM-28 models in those first 5 years)  they apparently intended to abandon long scale and revert to the short scale in riviving the “000” designation.  What happened necks (pun intended)  is rather strange: