The body measures a scant 14” across but is proportionally similar to a 000-sized body. Even the bridge is scaled down to maintain the look of a 000!
A lightly built small guitar, the Martin 000 Jr-10 has a lot of tone for such a small guitar. It’s fun to play and perfect for travel.
With padded gigbag.
One of our favorite instruments in the Martin lineup, the 000-15M is also one of the company’s least expensive all-solid-wood guitars! The guitar features an X-braced top, solid mahogany body and neck, East Indian fingerboard and bridge, ebony bridge and end pins, bone nut and saddle, vintage style open-geared tuners, and old style headstock logo. The guitar exudes vintage, and thanks to its exceptionally light build, sounds wide open and mature without waiting the many years generally required for that kind of tone to develop.
Inspired by the Style 15 and 17 guitars built from the 1930s to 1960s, the 000-15M was designed to offer legendary Martin tone and feel to the budget-minded guitarist, and it does just that remarkably well.
The Martin 000-15M is delightful to play. It has a modern neck carve with a 1-11/16″ nut and it frets easily in all positions. Scale length is 25.4″.
With deluxe padded gig bag.
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The Martin 000-18 features a 14 fret body with South American mahogany back and sides, Sitka spruce top, tortoiseshell plastic bindings and beveled edge pickguard, original style 18 rosette and purflings, and 1930’s shaped bridge with black pins and drop-in bone saddle.
The neck is South American mahogany, carved into a very comfortable low round profile with a nut width of 1-3/4”. The ebony fingerboard features simple pearl dot markers, a 24.9” scale, and strings that taper to 2-3/16” wide at the bridge. The nitrocellulose lacquer has an aged look, which, in addition to the old-style headstock logo and open-geared tuners, add to the guitar’s definitively vintage appearance.
Under the hood the 000-18 features scalloped bracing, ¼” in width, and a small 1950’s looking maple bridgeplate. Workmanship is very tidy throughout.
The guitar’s overall effect is that of a pre-war 000-18, and it’s in fact the closest thing to a mid 1930’s 000-18 that Martin has yet offered as a standard model since 1939. The instrument is open, sweet, rich, and complex but with a sparkle of brightness across the notes to liven things up.
With deluxe hardshell case
Individual instruments may vary slightly in appearance