1939 Martin D-28

$99,500.00

  • SOLD!

  • Year: 1939
  • Manufacturer: Martin
  • Model: D-28
  • Case: Soft
  • Color:
  • Condition: Excellent
  • Description: Serial # 72672. This is the biggest sounding D-28 we’ve ever played. Period. It’s a mid ’39 guitar with rearward bracing and a big neck. And it’s ridiculously clean too (and that’s likely an understatement). 100% original (bridge pins, tuners, finish, everything), never neck-setted, perfect flat-picking set up with medium strings, full-height bridge, and a somewhat low saddle. The nut has never been out, tuners look new, original frets are unworn, and the bridge-pins are still sitting high just the way Martin left them. Most 10 year old D-28’s look older than this guitar. The guitar has just come through our repair shop. We’ve glued a crack through the bridge-pin holes, glued and cleated a tight back crack, and glued and touched-up a hairline crack along the inside edge of the volute (bass side). The repairs are all close to invisible. There is no overspray, but we did drop-fill the back and headstock cracks with lacquer. Apart from some minor thumb wear on the edge of the neck and behind the nut, the finish is immaculate. There is a long crack through the fingerboard, from the soundhole to the 8th fret, that appears to have been previously repaired. If a clean pre-war herringbone is what you’ve been looking for, this one is worthy of strong consideration. It not cheap, but it a tremendous sounding instrument in astonishing condition. With period chipboard case On consignment