Name: Martin D-28 (1948)
Brand: Martin
SKU: AF25096
Price: 19500.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Vintage

Nut Width

1 11/16"

Neck Carve

Modified V

Scale Length

25.4"

Serial Number

104565

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On Consignment

Shipping Calculated At Checkout

This 1948 Martin D-28 has just come into the shop for consignment! Wearing two pickguards, and bearing resemblance to the '48 D-28 owned by Billy Strings, this is a dynamite-sounding bluegrass guitar for a player interested in a vintage Martin sitting below top-of-market prices. This guitar exhibits the wonderful combination of punch and shimmer that's unique to non-scalloped late 1940's Martins. Digging in with a flatpick elicits beautiful, warm tones; and placing a capo up the neck produces another dimension of shimmer perfectly suited to fingerstyle vocal accompaniment. Synopsis? If you're ready to enter the realm of great-sounding vintage Martins, and you're looking for a guitar that won't command museum-level prices, read on...

Aside from the aforementioned second pickguard, this guitar has had a new bridge, new nut, new saddle, and new tuners installed in the recent past. The inside of the guitar is very clean; and all braces, and the bridge plate, are original and intact. The back of the neck has had a 'speed neck' treatment, with the original finish matted down to a less tacky, satin texture. The body finish has likely been oversprayed, though it still looks great and shows lovely patina. Our shop has lowered the existing saddle; and the guitar plays cleanly, with action at 3/32" (bass side) and 2/32" (treble side) under tension of medium strings. Price includes Canadian-made Calton Case. On consignment; shipping calculated at checkout.

Materials

Top

Sitka Spruce

Back & Sides

Brazilian Rosewood

Neck

Mahogany

Fingerboard

Ebony

Bridge

Ebony

Nut & Saddle

New bone replacements

Tuners

New Kluson

Bracing

Non-scalloped

Construction

Hide Glue

Finish

Nitrocellulose Lacquer (Speed neck treatment)

Neck Specs

Carve

Modified V

Nut Width

1 11/16"

String Spacing

2 1/8"

Scale Length

25.4"

Truss Rod

Non-adjustable

Inlays

MOP Dots

Headstock

Brazilian Rosewood veneer w/C.F. Martin Decal

Other

Serial #

104565

Case

Calton

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