Martin 000-18 Guitar (1926)

Here is a very interesting instrument. It has a 12-fret neck with a slotted headstock but has Martin's long scale length. Very rare. The width at the nut is 1-13/16ths inches. The guitar has been refinished. Somewhere along the line, we think someone put some rhinestones in the headstock (can you say 1960s?), but they were removed before it was refinished. There have been numerous cracks repaired well, and there are a few patches also very professionally repaired. The tuners have been replaced. This guitar is incredibly light, as any 80-year-old Martin should be, and the sound jumps out of it. Somebody at sometime spilled something inside the soundhole. We think it was glue and glitter ... possibly another relic of the sixties? Most of it has been cleaned up and we don't think it affects the guitar at all.

front   body headstock       side detail - mid-left side detail - lower left soundhole bridge area detail bridge detail lower bout detail upper bout detail pickguard lower bout detail - right       back side detail body - back back detail headstock detail 1 headstock detail 2 headstock - back

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