2008 C. F. Martin OM-30DB Pat Donohue Custom Edition Artist Se...

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  • Year: 2008
  • Manufacturer: C. F. Martin
  • Model: OM-30DB Pat Donohue Custom Edition Artist Series
  • Case: Original Hard
  • Color: Natural
  • Condition: Mint
  • Description: ON HOLD! Serial number: 1,285,949. Number 16 of a limited edition of 30. One of the most intriguing guitars in Martin’s Artists Series, the OM-30DB Pat Donohue Custom Edition was designed by master fingerpicker Pat Donahue with some assistance from John Woodland of Willies American Guitars. This unique design blends the OM shape, scale and 14-fret configuration with a deeper body depth (1/2” deeper at the end pin than an OM) and an extra wide neck, plus appointments reminiscent of Martins from early in the 20th century. The guitar has an artisan builder feel to it and clearly no expense was spared. The tonewoods seem hand-picked; premium East Indian rosewood and Adirondack spruce both with nice evenly spaced grain. Scalloped 1/4” Adirondack spruce top braces are done in the Golden Era style. The 1 13/16” (at the nut) modified V genuine mahogany neck with diamond volute features a slotted headstock with square slots is evocative of Martins from the 1920s. Another nod to the 1920s is the ebony pyramid bridge with wide – 2 5/16” – string spacing and a drop-in fossilized ivory saddle. The tuners are top-of-the-line engraved Waverlys with small ivoroid keys. The appointments are similarly vintage inspired. Intricate multi-colored “parallelogram” Style 30 wood marquetry encircles the top and compliments the Style 45 abalone pearl rosette. Both are evocative of guitar making in the teens and 20s. The Style 30 wood marquetry backstrip compliments the East Indian rosewood. Bound with grained ivoroid and accented with black/white purfling, the East Indian rosewood headplate features the Martin torch inlay in abalone pearl; the back of the headstock displays the pre- pre-war Martin pressure stamp. The grained ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard bears Style 30 position markers: a Style 45 snowflake at the 5th fret, two slotted squares at the 7th fret and a Maltese cross at the 9th fret, plus Pat Donohue’s “P D” initials at the 12th fret. The nut, bridge pins and end pin are crafted from genuine bone, with the latter two sporting abalone pearl dots. It’s ultra-cool. There are many youtube videos featuring on of the other 29 OM-30DBs. Suffice it to say that Martin succeeded in building a guitar with OM clarity with the bass of a dreadnaught. Check them out. This condition of this one is dead mint. It ships with a Martin Geib style case. Thanks for reading this far. If you have any other questions, please email or call.