1951 Martin 0-15
$6995 CAD
($5036.4 USD)
For more details contact us at info@folkwaymusic.com or 855-772-0424.
A beautifully cared for Martin 0-15 from the early 1950s that’s just come through our repairshop with a fresh neck reset, refret and set up.
We’ve long been fans of the 0-15. It was Martin’s least expensive guitar from its launch in 1940 until the end of its production run in 1961 and sold well through those years. The 0-15’s combination of Martin workmanship and affordability proved to be a winning recipe (the 0-15 was less than half the price of a D-18 in 1951), and over 10,000 of this model were produced over its 20 year run. While the 0-15 is among the more common 1950s Martin models out there, they aren’t exactly plentiful today. There were more dreadnoughts produced in 1975 alone than all the 0-15s combined, for example, and finding an early 1950s Martin 0-15 in as good shape as this example has become hard to do in recent years.
A remarkably good sounding 0-15, this guitar’s bold and open voice belie its smaller size. It offers lots of warmth in the bass, excellent mid-range support, and chewy, rounded trebles in a loose, overtone-rich, lightly built tonal pallet. It’s quite responsive and dynamic, performing equally well beneath a fingerstyle or controlled flatpick right attack.
Crack free and in particularly fine condition, this guitar shows no repairs other than the reset, new frets, and new saddle that we installed here. There are no internal repairs, and the finish is original throughout. Original Kluson tuners with replaced buttons, original nut, unaltered bridge, and new Antique Acoustic pins. The pickguard is still nearly flat and hasn’t caused any top cracks or warpage.
The guitar’s neck has a fairly rounded C carve of medium depth, with the softest hint of a V profile in the shoulders and a comfortably rolled fretboard edge. First fret neck depth is .842” and the nut measures 1-11/16”. 24.9” scale, 2-1/8” string spread at the saddle. Currently set up with 12-54 strings and an action of 5-6 64ths at the 12th fret.
With original chipboard case.
We’ve long been fans of the 0-15. It was Martin’s least expensive guitar from its launch in 1940 until the end of its production run in 1961 and sold well through those years. The 0-15’s combination of Martin workmanship and affordability proved to be a winning recipe (the 0-15 was less than half the price of a D-18 in 1951), and over 10,000 of this model were produced over its 20 year run. While the 0-15 is among the more common 1950s Martin models out there, they aren’t exactly plentiful today. There were more dreadnoughts produced in 1975 alone than all the 0-15s combined, for example, and finding an early 1950s Martin 0-15 in as good shape as this example has become hard to do in recent years.
A remarkably good sounding 0-15, this guitar’s bold and open voice belie its smaller size. It offers lots of warmth in the bass, excellent mid-range support, and chewy, rounded trebles in a loose, overtone-rich, lightly built tonal pallet. It’s quite responsive and dynamic, performing equally well beneath a fingerstyle or controlled flatpick right attack.
Crack free and in particularly fine condition, this guitar shows no repairs other than the reset, new frets, and new saddle that we installed here. There are no internal repairs, and the finish is original throughout. Original Kluson tuners with replaced buttons, original nut, unaltered bridge, and new Antique Acoustic pins. The pickguard is still nearly flat and hasn’t caused any top cracks or warpage.
The guitar’s neck has a fairly rounded C carve of medium depth, with the softest hint of a V profile in the shoulders and a comfortably rolled fretboard edge. First fret neck depth is .842” and the nut measures 1-11/16”. 24.9” scale, 2-1/8” string spread at the saddle. Currently set up with 12-54 strings and an action of 5-6 64ths at the 12th fret.
With original chipboard case.