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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 the 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 the 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 Martin E1 electronics, featuring a built-in tuner and 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.

SPECS:

Body Size: D-14 Fret
Construction: Mortise & Tenon Neck Joint
Weight: 4.45 lbs
Bracing Pattern: X-Brace
Brace Shape: Scalloped
Top Material: Torrefied Spruce
Back Material: Mahogany
Side Material: Mahogany
Top Finish: Gloss
Back and Sides Finish: Gloss
Scale Length: 25.4"
Fingerboard Width At Nut: 1 3/4''
Neck Shape: PA Profile
Neck Taper: High-Performance Taper
Electronics: Martin E1
Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
Top Detail: None
Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
Pickguard Inlay: None
Rosette: Old Style 18 Boltaron
Bridge Style: Modern Belly
Bridge String Spacing: 2 5/32"
Bridge Material: Ebony
Bridge Pin Material: Black Plastic
Bridge Pin Dots: None
Saddle: White Tusq
Saddle Radius: 16"
Brace Material: Spruce
Brace Size: 5/16"
Back Purfling/Strip: None
Heelcap: Black
Endpiece: None
Endpiece Inlay: None
Back & Sides Color: Dark Mahogany
Back Detail: None
Back Inlay: None
Side Detail: None
Side Inlay: None
Neck Material: Select Hardwood
Neck Finish: Satin
Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
Number Of Frets Total: 20
Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
Side Dots: White
Fingerboard Material: Ebony
Fingerboard Width At 12th Fret: 2 1/8''
Fingerboard Inlay: Old Style 18
Fingerboard Inlay Material: Faux Abalone
Fingerboard Binding Material: None
Headstock: Solid
Headplate: 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
Headplate Detail: None
Case: Softshell
Label: Paper Label