Martin Custom Shop 000-18 Acoustic Guitar, Natural, Adirondack Spruce/Genuine Mahogany

Lining up with plenty to impress the most discerning of players, we have this Martin Custom Shop 000-18. The Martin Custom Shop, a purveyor among the world's most celebrated in acoustic guitarcraft, delivers on Martin's reputation for top-shelf tonewood construction and masterful artistic eyes and ears. This Martin Custom Shop 000-18 comes together with a dynamic lineup of materials and specifications to summon a robust acoustic experience that plays authentically to the historic American name's many historic models.

Martin Custom Shop acoustic guitars deliver on every level for an elevated acoustic guitar experience. Centrally, this excellence starts with its wood selection. This Martin Custom Shop assembles with an iconic 000-14 Fret shape with dovetail neck joint construction, this Martin Custom Shop 000-18 features an Adirondack spruce top and genuine mahogany back and sides. These two high-quality types of your classic spruces and mahoganies step up to summon a tonal palette that is complex, nuanced, and robust. The Adirondack spruce top is then lined with Martin's Golden Era scalloped ¼" Adirondack spruce braces in an X-Brace pattern. Enhancing balance and projection, this more modern Martin feature pushes this Custom Shop model to a higher level.

At this point, this Custom Shop reaches out with a satin-finished neck in a Golden Era Modified Low Oval profile. This neck is fitted with a High Performance taper to connect with a sleek touch and a seamlessly playable shape. Paired with a rich ebony fingerboard lined with twenty frets and detailed with abalone Old Style 18 inlays, the fretting experience of this Custom Shop is a dream.

For enhancing its voice and playing experience, this Custom Shop 000-18 is fitted with a number of sturdy hardware specifications and impressive aesthetic touches. The base of the guitar's scale features an ebony Golden Era Modern Belly bridge with a drop-in bone saddle. At the headstock, a bone nut and six nickel open gear tuning machines align for seamless stringing and accurate intonation. Authentic aesthetic flourishes found across this Custom Shop include faux tortoise binding, Old Style 18 multi-stripe inlay, Style 18 purfling, and the Adirondack top's Aging Toner top color that pushes its looks into a more worn-in aesthetic profile. This Martin Custom Shop travels with an included hardshell case.

A standout representation of the Martin Custom Shop's artistic eye and quality craftsmanship, this 000-18 is a knockout in every way.