Description
This Martin 00-18 Authentic 1931 is a small-body, slope-shouldered beauty with a a warm and lively voice. Extremely responsive and a surprising amount of volume and projection.
This Martin 00-18 Authentic 1931 will grab you with a deep and instant connection. This beauty offers a warm and lively voice and is extremely responsive with a surprising amount of volume and projection. She weights next to nothing and feels incredible. The neck offers no resistance, no matter what kind of idea I throw at it, making it addictive to play. The combination fo Honduras Mahogany, Adirondack VTS and pre-war dimensions make this a brilliant guitar for fingerpicking. She amplifies even the subtlest shifts in finger placement and velocity. She feels open to all styles. It sounds just as good for playing classic piece as she does for a ragtime arrangement or jazz standard in the chord-melody style. This particular model was patterned after a 1931 00-18 that Fred Oster, the proprietor of Vintage Instruments in Philadelphia, loaned Martin to scrutinize with X-rays and by hand.
Martin built the 00-18 Authentic 1931 in a period-correct fashion, using hide glue, and painstakingly replicated all of the details on the original instrument, from the ebony nut to the rosewood binding to a 1930s-style hang tag. The 00-18’s neck has a subtly V shaped profile whose moderate girth should appeal to a wide range of players. The nut is relatively wide at 1-7/8 inches, and though I tend to prefer narrower nuts, it somehow doesn’t feel all that wide. It’s just as easy to play barre chords and even thumb-fretted shapes on the 00-18 as it is on a guitar with a 1-7/8″ – 47,6 mm nut. The combination of a short scale”(24.9″ – 632 mm) and generous string spacing (2 3/8″ – 60 mm) feels terrific on both hands. And with only 169 guitars built this is a rare and collectable sweetheart too.Her condtion is near MINT. Listen to the sound impression here:
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