Up for sale is a late-1960s Martin 0-16NY, one of Martin’s “New Yorker” folk-era guitars. These were Martin’s early take on a vintage reissue — built during the 1960s folk boom to echo the small-bodied, 12-fret 1920s instruments made famous by Joan Baez and her contemporaries. Lightly built with a stripped-down, Style 18 aesthetic, they have a dry, woody, direct voice that sits beautifully behind a singer or fingerstyle player.

I had a K&K Pure Mini pickup professionally installed — a passive, no-battery bridge-plate transducer that’s widely regarded as the most natural-sounding passive system for amplifying a small-body acoustic. Plug straight in and the guitar’s real acoustic character comes through. It also includes the vintage green Martin hardshell case.

Specs:

• 0-size body, 12-fret neck-to-body joint, slotted headstock

• Solid spruce top; solid mahogany back, sides, and neck

• Rosewood fingerboard and bridge

• 1-7/8” nut width — roomy, comfortable for fingerstyle

• ~24.9” scale length

• No pickguard, side-dot markers, Style 18 appointments

• Lightly X-braced; sounds best with silk & steel or light-gauge strings

• K&K Pure Mini pickup (passive) installed

• Includes vintage green Martin hardshell case