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.

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 Recommended Strings:    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 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" Endpiece: None Endpiece Inlay: None   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 Heelcap: Black 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 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®   Case: Softshell Label: Paper Label Electronics: Yes Electronics Options: LR Baggs Element Left Handed Availability: true Pleked: true