Available now at Northeast Music Center !
The D-18 Modern Deluxe is a new take on Martin Vintage. This guitar is packed with custom features and modern technology that you have to see, feel, and hear for yourself. The vintage appointments include a spruce VINTAGE TONE SYSTEM® (VTS) top, a dovetail neck joint, and natural protein glue construction that give it the rich, fully aged Martin tone that has inspired generations. The look is unlike anything in our production line to date with East Indian rosewood binding, stylish gold frets, gold open-gear tuners, and a unique 1930s style script logo inlaid in pearl on the headstock. Some ultra-modern features include Liquidmetal® bridge pins with red dots and a composite carbon fiber bridgeplate that boosts volume. And we’ve included a new neck shape that is slightly asymmetrical for maximum hand comfort up and down the fretboard. This guitar is anything but standard.
Specifications:
- Body
- Body Shape - D-14 Fret
- Top Wood - VTS Spruce
- Back & Sides Wood – Genuine Mahogany
- Pickguard – Faux Tortoise
- Rosette - Old Style 18 Multi-Stripe
- Binding – East Indian Rosewood
- Bracing - Scalloped Forward Shifted X-Brace
- Neck
- Frets - 20 EVO Frets
- Scale length - 25.4"
- Neck Wood - Genuine Mahogany
- Neck Shape - Vintage Deluxe w/ High Performance Taper
- Fretboard Wood - Ebony
- Inlays – Abalone Old Style 18
- Headplate Material – East Indian Rosewood
- Headplate Inlay - Abalone Script Logo
- Hardware
- Tuners - Gold Open Gear
- Nut - Bone
- Nut Width - 1-3/4"
- Bridge - Ebony, Modern Belly w/ Drop in Saddle
- Saddle - Compensated Bone
- Bridge Pins - Liquid Metal