If you're looking for a Martin guitar that looks and sounds like you've been playing it for 80 years, you have just found it. Perhaps the most revered vintage D-28s are the ones created in 1937. An excellent year for guitars building with a perfect storm of craftsmanship, innovation, and materials and featuring forward-shifted hand-scalloped X-bracing, an Adirondack spruce top, and a 1 3/4" neck width.

This model is an updated version made with rich and colorful

Guatemalan rosewood back and sides with contrasting heartwood wings and strip on the sides, and it includes some subtle spec refinements to make it even more faithful to the original.

One of the major updates is a more accurate body profile based on dreadnoughts from the 1930s and 40s. This Aged version gives the look and feel of a pre-war guitar with the painstaking wear and broken in features all in the right places. Martin's craftspeople can recreate the pleasing visual aesthetics of a vintage guitar and reproduce the particular tones previously reserved for vintage instruments. The result is a tactile, visual, and auditory experience that will transport you all the way back to the 1930s.

The D-28 Authentic 1937 includes all of the goodness that comes with Martin's Authentic Series instruments, like Hide Glue construction and hand-scalloped Adirondack Spruce X-bracing plus Martin's Vintage Tone System (VTS) which is employed to age the Adirondack Spruce top and braces capturing the tone from the 1930s era.

Includes Authentic hardshell case

Free shipping in the continental

United States.

Adirondack Spruce Top with VTS

(Vintage Tone System)

Guatemalan Rosewood back and sides

with LR Baggs pickup installed.

Hide Glue Construction

VTS Vintage Gloss thin finish Adirondack Spruce Authentic

1937 forward shifted 5/16" scalloped

X bracingGenuine Mahogany Authentic 1937 neck and headstock shape

Guatemalan Rosewood headstock overlay

Ebony fretboard and Authentic belly bridge

Bold Herringbone top purfling

Grained Ivoroid bound body, heelcap, endpiece and side dots

Abalone Golden Era diamond and squares long pattern inlay

Style 28 Multi-stripe ring rosette

Authentic zig-zag backstrip

Tortoise pickguard

Waverly Nickel tuners with butterbean knobs

Bone nut and saddle

1 3/4" nut width

2 5/16" saddle spacing

25.4" scale length

Deluxe Authentic hardshell case