Martin D-28 Authentic 1937 Aged Acoustic Guitar

Timeless Craftsmanship and Vintage Tone – The Martin D-28 Authentic 1937 Aged Acoustic Guitar

If you’re looking for a new guitar that looks and sounds like you’ve been playing it for 80 years, you have just found your holy grail of guitars. 1937 was an excellent year for guitars, with a perfect storm of craftsmanship, innovation, and materials. The Aged version of the D-28 Authentic 1937 includes all of the goodness that comes with Martin’s Authentic Series instruments, like hide glue construction and hand-scalloped X-bracing. Plus, it adds the VINTAGE TONE SYSTEM® (VTS) that ages the wood to replicate the sound of a vintage Martin. Martin’s craftspeople can recreate the pleasing visual aesthetics of a vintage guitar and reproduce the particular tones previously reserved for vintage instruments. Now Martin has reintroduced a more accurate body profile based on dreadnought shapes from the early Golden Era of Martin’s history. The result is a tactile, visual, and auditory experience that will transport you all the way back to the 1930s. And we know you’re going to like it there.

SPECIFICATIONS

Overview

• Body Size: Authentic D-14 Fret
• Finish Top: Vintage Gloss – Aged
• Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint – Hide Glue Construction
• Back and Side Finish: Vintage Gloss – Aged
• Bracing Pattern: Authentic 1937 Forward-Shifted X-Brace
• Scale Length: 25.4″
• Brace Shape: Scalloped
• Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 3/4”
• Top Material: Adirondack Spruce with VTS
• Neck Shape: Authentic 1937
• Back Material: Guatemalan Rosewood
• Neck Taper: Standard Taper
• Side Material: Guatemalan Rosewood
• Electronics: None
• Electronics Options: None

Top

• Top Color: Vintage Toner
• Bridge Style: Authentic Belly – Glue in Long Saddle – Aged
• Binding: Grained Ivoroid
• Bridge String Spacing: 2 5/16”
• Top Inlay Material: Bold Herringbone
• Bridge Material: Ebony
• Top Detail: Aged
• Bridge Pin Material: Ivory Pattern – Aged
• Pickguard: Tortoise Pattern Aged
• Bridge Pin Dots: Black Plastic
• Pickguard Inlay: None
• Saddle: Bone
• Rosette: Multi-Stripe
• Saddle Radius: 16″

body

• Brace Material: Adirondack Spruce with VTS
• Back and Sides Color: None
• Brace Size: 5/16″
• Back Detail: Aged
• Back Purfling/Strip: Zig-Zag Authentic
• Back Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
• Heelcap: Grained Ivoroid
• Side Detail: Aged
• Endpiece: Grained Ivoroid
• Side Inlay Material: None
• Endpiece Inlay: Multi-Stripe

Neck

• Neck Material: Genuine Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony
• Finish Neck: Vintage Gloss – Aged
• Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret: 2 1/4”
• Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
• Fingerboard Inlay Style: 1937 Diamonds and Squares Long Pattern
• Number of Frets Total: 20
• Fingerboard Inlay Material: Abalone
• Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
• Fingerboard Binding Material: None
• Side Dots: Grained Ivoroid

Headstock

• Headstock Shape: Solid with 1937 Taper and Diamond
• Tuning Machines: Aged Waverly Nickel Open Back
• Headplate Material: Guatemalan Rosewood
• Knob: Butterbean
• Headplate Logo Style: Authentic Style CFM Script Overlay
• Nut Material: Bone
• Headplate Binding Material: None
• Headplate Detail: Aged

Miscellaneous

• Case: Hardshell

Manufacturer: C. F. Martin & Co.
Model: 2022 D-28 AUTHENTIC 1937 VTS AGED
SKU: I737466-N-0-WHXC
UPC: 729789652513

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