Faithfully Based on a 1941-Built Guitar that Resides in Martin's Nazareth, PA Museum.

2009 Martin D-28 Museum Edition 1941 Guitar & Case.

This absolutely mint 15 1/2-inch/wide acoustic flat top weighs just 4.70 lbs. and has a fat nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 25.40 inches and a body depth of just under five inches. The top bracing is of the "X" scalloped ca. 1941 authentic style using 5/16 inch solid Adirondack spruce. Natural Solid Adirondack Spruce top, Solid Madagascar Rosewood back and sides. The top of the body has the traditional bold 'herringbone' pattern face border and the bottom of the body has three-ply black and white binding. The Madagascar rosewood back has the traditional ca. 1937 wood parquetry HD zig-zag stripe. Mahogany "V" shaped neck with a medium-to-fat profile, solid ebony fretboard with fossilized ivory nut, 20 medium frets and diamond and square pearl fingerboard inlays in the long “Golden Era” pattern. Solid mahogany headstock with 1941 "diamond: taper. Headstock with gold decal "C.F.Martin & Co. / Est. 1833". Individual Waverly nickel tuners with oval buttons. Delmar convincingly tortoise type pickguard with beveled edges. 1930s style ebony belly bridge with a sixteen inch radius long fossilized ivory saddle. Grained ivoroid endpiece and heelcap. On the neck block end is stamped "D-28 / Museum Edition / 1941 / 1350038". This exceptional guitar is in mint (9.50) condition with just one tiny finish crack between the lower end of the pickguard and the treble side of the bridge. Complete with the Martin Guitar Warranty Registration booklet, Martin hang-tag with matching serial number, Martin serial number booklet, Martin 'Care' booklet and original polishing cloth. Housed in the original Martin & Co 545V Harptone five-latch shaped black hardshell case with olive green padded lining (9.50). First announced in 2009 - only thirty-five of these very special guitars have been made - twenty-seven in 2009 and a further eight in 2010. A truly amazing instrument… strung with the recommended Martin M550 medium phosphur bronze strings.

"C F Martin has outdone itself with this one. We were visited recently by refugees of the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum (UMGF) two-day Pilgrimage to Nazareth, recently, and, after playing this guitar, which had just arrived that day, they came away saying “Totally unexpected,” “sweet and mellow with great tonal range,” and “simply amazing.” Perhaps this is because the Museum Edition is built like the-year-we-entered-WW2 1941 D-28 – having standard position scalloped bracing, non-adjustable T-bar truss rod and all its connected components adhere through the use of hide glue. Believe it or not – laboriously using this rare glue on a replica guitar, from the first triad, brings the player back 68 years. This primordial binder is combined with Madagascar rosewood – yes, our dear old friend Dalbergia baroni -- a sister (both being from the Dalbergia family) of Brazilian rosewood – on the headplate, back and sides, proffering the closest look and the most proximate sound to the world’s most precious tonewood. We present to you a 14-fret dreadnought made with an aging-toner enhanced, solid Adirondack “Red” Spruce top, fossilized ivory nut and saddle, polished gloss finish on back, neck and sides, Waverly brand nickel-plated tuners with oval buttons, and a Delmar convincingly tortoise type pickguard. In other words, this guitar could just as easily carried the name “Authentic” in its title and been perfectly justified. Other features include solid Adirondack 5/16” bracing, a Madagascar headstock overlay, wood parquetry zigzag back stripe that is, itself, circa 1937 in provenance, grained ivoroid endpiece, body bindings, bold herringbone face border, a 1 11/16th” fingerboard width at the nut, and a 2 1/8” string spacing at the saddle, diamond and square fingerboard inlays in the long “Golden Era” pattern, a 1930s style ebony belly bridge with a long saddle. If sixty grand for a bona fide original ’41 is just a little beyond the pale, right now, this brilliant and beautiful beacon of blissful benevolence, for a mere fraction of that longed for lordly luxury, will, like a sated pelican, fill the bill. List price: $14,999" (C.F. Martin & Co.)

There is a short video taken at NAMM 2009 introducing this model…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPSvQPxsWhA