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A heavenly tonewood duo
The Martin 00-28 features a spruce top, producing a sublime, versatile sound that accommodates many genres and techniques with ease, from lighter fingerpicking styles to heavier strumming patterns. Spruce exudes a crystal-clear tone with exceptional dynamics, promising deep lows, a warm midrange, and singing highs.
East Indian rosewood back and sides complement such a divine top, giving you a balanced and versatile tonal palette. Delve into rich warmth, superb resonance, and tremendous volume - rosewood's delicious sonic capabilities are bound to engulf you completely.
Martin's Vintage Tone System
The 00-28 Modern Deluxe allows you to experience that deliciously classic Martin tone as soon as you start playing. Its spruce top has been carefully crafted with Martin's Vintage Tone System (VTS), producing tones that sound as though they've aged over many years. This model proves that you don’t have to buy a vintage guitar to experience the esteemed, wondrous tone of a classic Martin. The VTS involves a thermochemical treatment which removes any water at a high temperature, leaving the wood extremely dry, superbly stable, and more importantly, with that sublime, vintage sound.
Incredible stability
In order to deliver an exceptional, clear tone and sustain a comfortable playing experience, it is important to have a sturdy and durable structure. The 00-28 provides the utmost stability from the inside. Within the spruce and mahogany body there is scalloped X-bracing which offers robustness and resonance. The scalloped shape of the bracing means parts have been scooped out, allowing the spruce top to vibrate freely, and this results in a more dynamic sound that retains structural reliability. Scalloped bracing is an enticing feature, particularly on Martin guitars as it takes us back to their "Golden Era" when all their steel-string guitars featured this sturdy and resonant brace shape. Such instruments are still held with such high regard now, and so you can trust that the 00-28 has been constructed with history, experience, and an abundance of knowledge behind it.
The benefits of such an innovative brace do not stop there. An X-bracing pattern offers an exceptionally sturdy structure that accommodates high-tension steel strings. Tune up and play without worrying about any potential guitar body tragedies, X-bracing is strong enough to withstand any amount of pressure.
Specifications
- Product Code: CFM-GTR-001228-MODERNDELUXE
Body
- Body Size: 00-12 Fret
- Top: Spruce With VTS
- Back & Sides Material: East Indian Rosewood
- Rosette: Style 28 Multi-Stripe
- Bracing Pattern: X Brace
- Brace Shape: Scalloped
- Finish: Gloss
- Binding: European Flamed Maple
Neck and Fingerboard
- Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
- Neck Material: Genuine Mahogany
- Neck Finish: Satin
- Neck Shape: Vintage Deluxe
- Neck Taper: High Performance Taper
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Scale Length: 24.9''
- Number Of Frets: 20
- Inlays: Diamonds & Squares Long Pattern, Abalone
- Side Dots: Abalone
- Fingerboard Width At Nut: 1 13/16''
- Headstock Shape: Solid With Square Taper
- Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood
- Headplate Logo Style: Stylised Script Inlay
Hardware
- Bridge Material: Ebony
- Bridge Style: Pyramid - Drop In Saddle
- Saddle: Compensated Bone
- Nut: Bone
- Tuning Machines: Gold Side Mount
- Included Case: Ply Hardshell
Please note: Martin do not ship their guitars with the strap button installed on the bottom of the guitar. They do this to avoid any impact cracks that may occur during shipping. You can find your strap button inside the case compartment.