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This Brazilian rosewood Martin Dreadnaught is the proverbial cannon, and an unusual one at that. Its sound is enormous, much more like a very powerful D-28 than any D-35 I’ve ever played. Apparently sent back to the Martin factory sometime in the last five or ten years, it has new frets, a new nut, and possibly a new fingerboard (looks mighty fresh to me). Back in the 1960s, when D-35s were a New Thing, their necks, which, like D-18s do not have a volute in the area behind the nut, were uncharacteristically small around the back. They are still kinda small to this day, but not this one; it’s nicely bigger and rounder than on any D-35 I’ve ever seen. Regular 1-11/16” nut width, but a bit bigger around the back. Other than that, only work we can see, and it’s all Martin factory, is repair of one barely noticeable back crack, new pickguard, a thin veneer over the original bridge plate inside, and one coat of Martin lacquer. The acton is factory fresh too, nice and crisp and easy to play. A rare and delicious opportunity for one heck of an early, Brazilian rosewood Martin D-35. $4995 w/hsc

Matt Umanov Guitars

Matt Umanov Guitars

1967
Martin
Excellent
Hard
25 Years
Matt Umanov Guitars
Matt Umanov
(212) 675-2157
New York, NY
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