Martin Road Series D-10E Retro Acoustic-Electric Guitar, Spruce/Sapele, Natural

Slipping smoothly into their refreshed Road Series, the Martin Road Series D-10E Retro is a solid candidate for your next favorite Martin dreadnought. This bold take on an iconic Martin D-14 features an impressive lineup of standby Martin tenets with some new spins to keep things fresh and stand up to the trials of the stage. A perfect companion for modern players with classic Martin sensibilities, this Road Series is ready to burn some rubber.

Martin's Road Series is a celebrated lineup of guitars with plenty of coveted models. Pairing some forward-thinking design choices with the great, acoustic tones of Martin's past, the Road Series D-10E Retro is really something to check out. This Road Series entry begins, however, with a classic Martin tonewood combination of spruce and sapele. Together, these woods assemble in a D-14 Fret dreadnought shape that sits easily under the arm and produces authoritative acoustic projection. Martin's Aging Toner top color pushes the spruce's complexion easily into a vintage-leaning look while 5/16" scalloped spruce braces line up in an X-Brace pattern for enhancing volume and tonal complexity.

For the fretting hand, this Road Series drops in a select hardwood neck in a Martin Performing Artist profile with a High Performance taper. Sliding quickly from lower to higher registers, this neck is quick to pick up and hard to put down. An ebony fingerboard lined with twenty comfortable Martin frets joins with faux Mother of Pearl 28 Style Dot inlays for that added bit of Martin aesthetic.

Closing out this road show, we've got a number of hardware specs and appointments to make the D-10E Retro shine. The Road Series D-10E Retro features a white Corian nut and nickel open gear tuning machines at its headstock for quick stringing and solid intonation. It builds this out with an ebony Modern Belly bridge and white TUSQ saddle at the scale's opposite end for a great transfer of motion. These parts keep the playing experience firm yet fluid while a multi-stripe top inlay, a single-ring fiber rosette, and black binding present a cool, simple, and classic Martin look. Onboard Martin E1 electronics bring the tones of this dreadnought to the stage. This Martin Road Series D-10E Retro travels with an included Martin softshell case.

Anyone could use a dreadnought, really. There's a reason why it has such a big presence in Martin's Road Series – and with acoustic guitars in general!