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Martin O-28 1913
This is one of two vintage Martin guitars we discovered on a recent excursion. It’s a 1913 0-28, one of only 200 guitars Martin made that year. This is a little guitar with a really BIG voice.
As you can see from the pictures, it has lived a life of adventure and hard knocks, but its owners loved it well and it has been professionally maintained and repaired to the highest standards by Eric Schoenberg. A great player’s guitar with some repaired cracks in the top and the sides, tuning pegs were originally ivory friction pegs, it now has banjo tuners. There are also pieces of replaced binding. Curently strung with silk and steel, it has great action and plays in tune all up and down the neck (nice job Eric!).
You can’t really tell from its unassuming demeanor, but this is a spectacular instrument that wants to start singing almost before you do. The only reason it’s even for sale is that we can’t decide which one of us gets to keep it. Please don’t buy it.
0 size body of quartersawn Brazilian rosewood and Adirondack Red Spruce; light scalloped bracing, Style 28 trim with ivory binding, herringbone purflings, 5-9-5 rosette of ivory and wooden rings, zig-zag backstrip, ivory end graft. One piece mahogany V-profile neck, stamped C.F. Martin & Co. on the rear of the headstock; ebony fingerboard with slotted diamond inlays at frets 5, 7, and 9; original bar frets, ivory side-dot position markers, and ivory heel cap.1-13/16" nut width, 24.9" scale length. Comes with excellent modern hard case.
Price: $4650.00
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