A very cool Martin 000-18 from 1952 just came in … the first time we tuned and played it, we were blown away by the huge and open sound of it.

In this time short after the war Martin created wonderful guitars – that are highly sought after today. It was an era where the guitars were built with no commercial consideration whatsoever … they were thin and used the finest first growth tonewoods. Entirely hand built from every perspective. Beautiful mahogany sides and back and a very nice spruce top – makes this guitar to a canon. The guitars of theses period are of the finest of what Martin has produced in all of these years … and that says something with the quality that they have put out over the last 100+ years.

This guitar is in players grade condition. The top has plenty of war stories, including some plugged holes near its pickguard, likely from past electronics. It has some amount of wear from play and use. Most of what you see on the pictures are scratches and finish damage, which are superficial. A luthier sealed some small cracks present on the treble side of the top. The rest of the guitar is crack free. It has received a neck reset and plays like butter.

This fantastic sounding Martin 000-18 1952 could easily become a finger pickers best friend, with a nice classic well aged tone and a responsive body. Lots of volume, dynamic and with singing melody strings, this has a nice defined tone that would work wonderfully for the right finger style player - and certainly opening up well with a flat pick.

This is one of those: to play it is to want to own it !! guitars.

It has a nut width of 43 mm and comes with the original guitar case.