Meet your brand-new old friend. The Martin DE Retro Plus Mahogany is the real deal – a genuine Martin that’s not your grandparent’s guitar but might one day be your grandkid’s. Inspired by our legendary 18-style flagship models, this acoustic-electric Dreadnought combines powerful tone and iconic design with cutting-edge craftsmanship. Its torrefied solid spruce top is thermally aged for enhanced resonance and a beautifully seasoned sound, delivering the rich, broken-in tone of a vintage instrument from the first strum. It’s the same premium feature long reserved for our Authentic and Modern Deluxe series, now available for the first time ever in the Road Series. Combined with solid mahogany back and sides, scalloped spruce X bracing, a Performing Artist neck, and an ebony fingerboard and bridge, this guitar has everything you could want in an acoustic. It even comes stage-ready with LR Baggs Element electronics, featuring volume and tone controls for dialing in your perfect live tone. Ideal as a gigging workhorse or your first step into premium acoustics, this guitar delivers best-in-class quality at an unbeatable value for serious players, and a lifetime of inspiration for anyone who picks one up. Just be warned, you won’t be able to put it down – because nothing compares to a Martin.

Features

Highlights

• D-14 Fret body size
• Mahogany back and sides
• Torrefied Spruce top with Aging Toner top color
• PA Profile neck with High-Performance Taper
• 1 3/4'' fingerboard width at nut
• Softshell case

Top

• Top Material : Torrefied Spruce
• Finish Top : Gloss
• Top Color : Aging Toner
• Top Inlay Material : Multi-Stripe
• Top Detail : None
• Binding : Black
• Bridge Material : Ebony
• Bridge Style : Modern Belly
• Bridge String Spacing : 2 5/32"
• Bridge Pin Material : Black Plastic
• Bridge Pin Dots : None
• Pickguard : Faux Tortoise
• Pickguard Inlay : None
• Rosette : Old Style 18 Boltaron
• Saddle : White TUSQ
• Saddle Radius : 16"

Body

• Body Size : D-14 Fret
• Construction : Mortise & Tenon Neck Joint
• Back Material : Mahogany
• Side Material : Mahogany
• Back and Side Finish : Gloss
• Back and Sides Color : Dark Mahogany
• Back Detail : None
• Side Detail : None
• Back Purfling/Strip : None
• Back Inlay Material : None
• Side Inlay Material : None
• Bracing Pattern : X-Brace
• Brace Shape : Scalloped
• Brace Material : Spruce
• Brace Size : 5/16"
• Heelcap : Black
• Endpiece : None
• Endpiece Inlay : None

Neck

• Neck Shape : PA Profile
• Neck Taper : High-Performance Taper
• Neck Material : Select Hardwood
• Neck Color : Dark Mahogany
• Finish Neck : Satin
• Scale Length : 25.4"
• Number of Frets Total : 20
• Neck Joins Body At : 14th Fret
• Fingerboard Material : Ebony
• Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret : 2 1/8''
• Fingerboard Width at Nut : 1 3/4''
• Fingerboard Inlay Style : Old Style 18
• Fingerboard Inlay Material : Faux Abalone
• Fingerboard Binding Material : None
• Side Dots : White

Headstock

• Headstock Shape : Solid
• Headplate Material : East Indian Rosewood
• Headplate Logo Style : Script Old Style Overlay
• Headplate Binding Material : None
• Tuning Machines : Nickel Open Gear
• Knob : Butterbean
• Nut Material : White Corian

Misc

• Case : Softshell
• Label : Paper Label
• Electronics : Yes
• Electronics Options : LR Baggs Element
• Left Handed Availability : true
• Pleked : true

What's Included

DE Retro Plus Mahogany

• Road Series, D-14 Fret, Acoustic Electric

Authentic Acoustic Lifespan 2.0 Guitar Strings Phosphor Bronze - Light

• Pre-strung on instrument

Softshell Case

• Waterproof, Backpack straps, Internal padding protection