A resonant all-mahogany acoustic with vintage style and modern playability.
The Martin Custom Shop 18 Style All Quilted Mahogany Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar provides a rich, vintage-inspired tone perfect for any serious guitarist. Its premium quilted mahogany top, back and sides produce a warm, balanced sound with impressive projection and articulation. The modified low oval neck profile and ebony fingerboard offer a comfortable playing experience that facilitates intricate fingerpicking or rhythmic strumming.
Premium Tonewoods for a Vintage Vibe
The all-mahogany construction of this dreadnought acoustic guitar provides a lush, resonant tone reminiscent of vintage instruments. Its quilted mahogany top resonates freely to generate articulate highs, balanced mids and a tightly focused low end. The quilted mahogany back and sides enhance warmth and overtones, creating a rich tone perfect for a variety of genres.
Playability and Craftsmanship
This guitar's neck was designed for comfort and speed. Its modified low oval profile offers an ergonomic shape that fits perfectly in your hand. The smooth ebony fingerboard and medium frets make chord changes and solos feel effortless. A compensated bone saddle provides accurate intonation for chords and single-note lines. Premium components like Grover tuners, an ebony bridge and bone nut demonstrate the Custom Shop's commitment to quality.
Vintage-Inspired Style
From its abalone rosette and tortoise pickguard to the Old Style 18 fingerboard inlays, this guitar exudes vintage character. An elegant brown sunburst finish highlights the beautiful figuring of the quilted mahogany. A Style 30 rope purfling strip adds an artisanal touch. Whether recording in the studio or performing onstage, this guitar's alluring aesthetics are sure to inspire.
Specifications
- Body size: Dreadnought
- Top material: Premium quilted mahogany
- Back and sides material: Premium quilted mahogany
- Finish: Gloss with toasted burst on back, sides, and top
- Bracing pattern: X brace - forward shifted, scalloped spruce
- Rosette: Style 18 with 30 style multicolor rope
- Material: Mahogany
- Finish: Satin
- Shape: Modified low oval
- Joint: Dovetail
- Scale length: 25.4"
- Neck meets body at: 14th fret
- Number of frets total: 20
- Material: Ebony
- Nut width: 1.75"
- Width at 12th fret: 2.125"
- Inlays: Select abalone, Old style 18
- Bridge: Ebony, modern belly style
- Nut: Bone
- Saddle: Compensated bone
- Tuning machines: Grover Nickel V97 vintage button
- Bridge pins: Ebony
- Pickguard: Faux tortoise
- Heelcap: Brown faux tortoise
- Electronics: None
- Orientation: Right handed
- Number of strings: 6
- Case: Softshell
Features
- Premium quilted mahogany top, back and sides
- Ebony fingerboard and bridge with abalone inlays
- Hand-scalloped spruce bracing for balanced tone
- Grover vintage-style tuners