A handcrafted acoustic guitar with premium tonewoods for discerning players.
The Martin Custom Shop 28 Style Adirondack Spruce-East Indian Rosewood Auditorium Acoustic Guitar provides you with a bold, resonant tone and premium appointments. Handcrafted with an Adirondack spruce top and East Indian rosewood back and sides, this guitar sings with complex overtones and impressive projection. The scalloped Adirondack spruce bracing allows the top to vibrate freely, giving you a lively tone with shimmering highs and rich lows. An ebony bridge and compensated bone saddle provide ideal tone transfer and intonation.
An Ebony Fingerboard Offers Smooth Playability
The ebony fingerboard on this Custom Shop 28 guitar features a modified low oval profile that feels comfortable and familiar in your hands. The ebony wood provides a smooth playing surface, while the 1.75" nut width gives you ample room for complex chord shapes and single-note runs. Style 45 abalone snowflake position inlays add an elegant touch while helping you navigate the fingerboard with confidence.
Premium Appointments for an Heirloom-Quality Instrument
From its hand-carved rosette and zigzag back strip purfling to its vintage-style open-gear tuners, this Custom Shop 28 guitar is packed with premium appointments. The gloss-finished East Indian rosewood back and sides are matched for color and grain, showcasing the wood's rich figuring. An aging toner on the Adirondack spruce top gives this guitar a gently aged appearance, as if it's been played for decades. With its alluring aesthetics and resonant voice, this Custom Shop 28 acoustic is an heirloom-quality instrument.
An Instrument Made for the Stage and Studio
Whether recording in the studio or performing onstage, the Custom Shop 28 Style Adirondack Spruce-East Indian Rosewood Auditorium Acoustic Guitar is a professional-grade instrument that will inspire your creativity. Its impressive projection and complex tone will shine through on recordings, allowing you to capture the nuances of your playing. Onstage, its resonant voice and premium appointments command attention. Experience the craftsmanship of a Custom Shop 28 acoustic for yourself today.
Specifications
- Body size: 000 Auditorium
- Top material: Adirondack spruce
- Top finish: Gloss with aging toner
- Back and side material: East Indian rosewood
- Back and sides finish: Gloss
- Bracing: Golden Era X-brace, scalloped Adirondack spruce
- Rosette: Style 28
- Material: Mahogany
- Neck finish: Satin
- Shape: Modified low oval
- Construction: Dovetail joint at 14th fret
- Scale length: 24.9"
- Number of frets: 20
- Material: Ebony
- Nut width: 1.75"
- Width at 12th fret: 2.125"
- Inlays: Style 45 snowflake, select abalone
- Bridge material: Ebony, modern belly style
- Nut: Bone
- Saddle: Compensated bone
- Tuning machines: Grover Nickel V97
- Pickguard: Faux tortoise
- Heelcap: European flamed maple
- Bridge pins: Ebony with faux tortoise dots
- None
- Orientation: Right handed
- Number of strings: 6
- Case: Softshell
Features
- Adirondack Spruce top, East Indian Rosewood back and sides
- Select Abalone inlay, Ebony fingerboard and bridge
- Scalloped Adirondack Spruce X-bracing, bone nut and saddle
- Grover Nickel V97 tuning machines