MARTIN VINTAGE SERIES D-18V MS

  We are happy to offer for sale this Martin D-18V from the Vintage Series. Details as follows:  

• Year: 1997
• Country of origin: USA
• Serial number: 620139
• Body style: Full-size 12-fret Dreadnought
• Top: Solid Sitka spruce
• Bracing pattern: Standard X-bracing, scalloped
• Back & sides: Solid genuine mahogany
• Neck material: Mahogany
• Neck profile: Modified V
• Nut width: 1¾ inches, approximately 44.5 mm
• Scale length: 25.4 inches
• Fingerboard & bridge: Solid ebony
• Case: Original Martin hardshell case
• Condition: 8/10

 

Comments:

Martin’s Vintage Series were a range of instruments designed around traditional construction, styling and appointments associated with earlier Martin guitars. The design of this D-18 deliberately recalls Martin’s earliest branded Dreadnoughts. The first D-18s of the early 1930s had 12-fret neck joints and slotted headstocks; Martin moved the mainstream D-18 to the now-familiar 14-fret, square-shouldered format in 1934. This rare model from 1997 has excellent playability and sound, and carries a lot of mojo! It had a bridge detachment repair, a back bracing detachment repair, and the cow bone saddle is not original. The ‘M’ in the model name denotes mahogany, while the ‘S’ identifies the traditional slope-shoulder 12-fret body configuration.  

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