Description

The Custom Shop 000-18 makes it easier than ever to get your hands on a handcrafted Martin built with premium tonewoods. With a solid Adirondack spruce top and genuine mahogany back and sides, this short-scale Auditorium model offers warm, articulate tone with exceptional clarity. It features hand-shaped Golden Era scalloped bracing and a dovetail neck joint for vintage-inspired resonance and response. The 000 body is equally at home with fingerpicking, strumming, or recording, and the faux tortoise binding adds a refined, custom touch. Designed to bring Custom Shop quality to more players, this special model is ready when you are—no need to start from scratch. For those seeking an heirloom-level guitar within reach, the Custom Shop 000-18 delivers.

Highlights

• 000-14 Fret body size
• Genuine Mahogany back and sides
• Adirondack Spruce top with Aging Toner top color
• GE Modified Low Oval with High-Performance Taper neck
• 1 3/4'' fingerboard width at nut
• Hardshell case

Top

Top Material: Adirondack Spruce

Finish Top: Gloss

Top Color: Aging Toner

Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe

Top Detail: None

Binding: Faux Tortoise

Bridge Material: Ebony

Bridge Style: GE Modern Belly - Drop in Saddle

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 Multi-Stripe

Saddle: Bone

Saddle Radius: 16"

Body

Body Size: 000-14 Fret

Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint

Back Material: Genuine Mahogany

Side Material: Genuine Mahogany

Back and Side Finish: Gloss

Back and Sides Color: Dark Mahogany

Back Detail: None

Side Detail: None

Back Purfling/Strip: Style 18

Back Inlay Material: None

Side Inlay Material: None

Bracing Pattern: Forward-Shifted X-Brace

Brace Shape: GE-Scalloped Hand Shaped

Brace Material: Adirondack Spruce

Brace Size: 5/16"

Heelcap: Faux Tortoise

Endpiece: Faux Tortoise

Endpiece Inlay: None

Neck

Neck Shape: GE Modified Low Oval

Neck Taper: High-Performance Taper

Neck Material: Select Hardwood

Neck Color: Dark Mahogany

Finish Neck: Satin

Scale Length: 24.9"

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: Abalone

Fingerboard Binding Material: None

Side Dots: White

Headstock

Headstock Shape: Solid with Square Taper

Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood

Headplate Logo Style: Authentic Style Script Overlay

Headplate Binding Material: None

Tuning Machines: Nickel Open Gear

Knob: Butterbean

Nut Material: Bone

Misc

Case: Hardshell

Label: None

Electronics: None

Left Handed Availability: true

Pleked: true