The Real McCoy
Attention, acoustic guitar-loving Wildwoodians! We have a truly delectable morsel for you to feast your eyes upon today: the Authentic Series 1937 D-28 by Martin Guitars!
Old-School Cool
Martin puts these delightful D-28s together with hot hide-glue, a protein-based adhesive that provides the strongest possible connection between the two pieces. They also hand-scallop each and every brace! This process is time-consuming, and it requires painstaking attention to detail, but it's worth it, because it lends their Authentic series guitars Golden-Era levels of resonance and sustain.
They only use the hide glue on good pieces of wood, too! These awesome Authentic D-28s come equipped with solid Adirondack spruce tops and bracing and stellar solid Guatemalan rosewood backs and sides, a classic tonewood combination that never fails to impress everyone within earshot. Adirondack spruce has more headroom and dynamic range than the more-common Sitka variety, and it also has a sweeter, woodier overall tonality. When you combine this stellar spruce tone with the piano-like richness imparted by the rosewood back and sides, the sound is the stuff of our wildest, most feverish acoustic dreams!
Essence of VTS
After selecting the choicest cuts of wood, the masterminds at Martin age the top using their patented Vintage Tone System, or VTS. The VTS is a sophisticated thermochemical process that is similar to torrefaction but more involved. Basically, to torrefaction works like this: you put the wood in an oxygen-free chamber under atmospheric pressure, and heat it. This sucks the moisture out of the wood and causes various biopolymers like cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, which makes the wood more solid and stable.
Martin's Vintage Tone Process takes the torrefaction process one step further. The acoustic wizards of Nazareth, Pennsylvania studied the chemical composition of various iconic Martins from the past, then figured out how to reverse-engineer modern wood to mirror that classic wood chemistry by using the torrefaction process I mentioned above. So, if you put the Adirondack spruce top on this 1937 Authentic Series D-28 under a microscope, it looks almost identical to the pre-war dreadnought that inspired it!
Together in Harmony
The VTS system and D-28s go together like Lennon and McCarty! Drier wood equals a warmer, clearer sound with a more focused frequency response, so there's less flub and fat and more muscle, so to speak. When you give the already-clear, sonorous voice of the Adirondack top this vintage treatment, it makes a D-28 sound like the dreadnought of your dreams: open, warm, and rich, with plenty of clarity and a ridiculously wide dynamic range of expression.
We are proud to present such an unprecedented instrument to our exceptional customer, and we invite you to experience the magic of the prewar Martin sound by taking one of these Authentic acoustics for a spin!
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Brand Name
Martin Guitars
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Model
D-28 Authentic 1937 VTS
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Top Finish
Vintage Gloss
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Body Shape
Authentic D-14 Fret
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Top Wood
Solid Adirondack Spruce with VTS
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Bracing
Scalloped, Forward-Shifted X Brace,5/16" Adirondack Spruce with VTS
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Binding
Grained Ivoroid
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Back & Sides Wood
Solid Guatemalan Rosewood
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Neck Dimensions
1st .800 - 9th 1.050
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Neck Wood
Mahogany
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Neck Shape
Authentic 1937 with Standard Taper
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Neck Finish
Vintage Gloss
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Fingerboard Wood
Ebony
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Fingerboard Inlays
Abalone 1937 Diamonds and Squares Long Pattern
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Scale Length
25.4"
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Nut Width
1 3/4"
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Nut Material
Bone
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Purfling
Bold Herringbone
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Saddle String Spacing
2 5/16"
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Saddle
Bone
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Rosette
Multi-Stripe
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Tuners
Waverly Nickel Open Back with Butterbean Knobs
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bridge
Ebony Authentic Belly - Glue-in Long Saddle
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Pickguard
Faux Tortoise
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Case
Martin Black Ply Hardshell
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