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1961 Martin 00-21NY
Beautiful tone, perfect playability, gorgeous Brazilian rosewood back and sides, and factory-fresh finish.
The New Yorker guitars were designed to be strung with gut or light-gauge steel strings and were released in 1961, the year this example was built. The two New Yorker models were designed to emulate the New York branded Martin 12 fret models which were built prior to 1898 and were quite popular during the Folk Revival of the 50s and 60s. As such, the 00-21NY and 0-16NY are built a bit lighter than their standard series contemporaries (such as the 00-21). They featured small rectangle bridges, thinner top specs, and small maple bridge plates – all of which added up to making them some of the best sounding guitars Martin was building in the 1960s.
1961 saw the production of 103 00-21NYs. The model was dropped at the end of 1965 after a total of only 906 were made.
The 12 fret neck features a 24.9” scale, round carve, 1-7/8” nut width, and a 1st fret depth of .840”. String spread at the saddle is 2-3/8”.
Brazilian rosewood back, sides, fretboard, bridge, and headstock overlay; Sitka spruce top with unscalloped X bracing. Tortoise celluloid bindings, wooden purflings and rosette.
With non-original 1970s hardshell case
