C.F. Martin / D28 Herringbone / 1940 / Natural / Guitar
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1940 Golden Era Martin D-28, also considered to be the holy acoustic grail. It’s an early 1940 guitar; one of the cleanest crack-free examples around and with an astonishing sound.
Some 25 years ago, the guitar was sent back to Martin for a refresh of the entire instrument, including a neck set, a new bridge, and small maple bridge plate, fretboard, and a body refinish. The guitar is totally crack-free, except for a small shim, added under the pickguard either to avoid a future crack on the weakest spot on a Martin guitar, or an invisible pickguard crack repair. That's the only suspect crack-repair on this beautiful graceful relic of the past. The wear on this guitar is minimal, there is small scratch in the lower top, and little play-wear.
This is a guitar in excellent restored condition and is setup perfectly. It has been set up with medium strings, has very easy playability, and the big deep sound that made these instruments famous. This truly is what a good bluegrass guitar is all about. Bridge and saddle are full height but traditionally bellying lightly; the ivory nut is still original although cleaned. All in all this guitar looks almost as new, except for some weather checking and light playwear in the top finish.
If a clean authentic pre-war herringbone is what you’ve been looking for, this might be the best guitar to invest your money in. This is a great opportunity on a truly unique instrument, that is restored with respect for it's heritage. Comes with Geib style Martin Case.
Additional Information
| Type and serial number | Martin D28 Herringbone, serial # 75032, the 971th instrument numbered in 1940 |
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| Condition | Excellent++ For more details refer to description. |
| Body type | 16 Inch dreadhaught flattop, scalloped bracing (X-brace 1 3/4" from sound hole. Round soundhole with three stripe rosette (5/9/5 grouping) |
| Scale length | 25.4 Inch (645mm) |
| Neck width | Nut: 1,7 Inch (43 mm); 12th fret: 2,1 inch (52 mm) |
| Body wood | Top: Adirondack spruce; back & sides: straight-grained Brazilian rosewood back and sides, Very old (>25 years ago) refin by Martin |
| Neck wood | 14 Fret mahogany |
| Fingerboard wood, frets | Ebony, 20 |
| Headstock | Mahogany, with CF martin logo |
| Tuners | Five of the tuners are original, one is an earlier 1930’s example. |
| Overall lenght | 41 Inch (103 cm) |
| Width lower bout | 16 Inch (40 cm) |
| Overall depth | 4 Inch (10 cm) |
| Binding | Herringbone trimmed top, ivoroid body binding on the back |
| Fret marker style | Slotted diamond and square inlays |
| Tail piece | See below |
| Bridge | Ebony bridge with (original) white bridge pins with black dots |
| Neck type | Lovely round and full faint V neck |
| No. and type of pickups | N/a |
| Controls | N/a |
| Pickguard | Original tortoise pickguard |
| Label | N/a, serial # etched inside on the base of the neck |
Classic Rock Guitars, Netherlands 
Classicrockguitars started in 2010 as a spin-off from a vintage guitar collection. We buy, restore and sell vintage solidbody guitars, hollowbody guitars, archtop guitars, flattop guitars, amplifiers and vintage parts & accessories from the great rock & roll era 1955-1975.
We specialize in great Gretsch guitars and amplifiers, all made in the USA, and in sparkling Eko guitars, all made in Italy.
In addition we sell other USA-made guitars such as Epiphone, Gibson, Guild, National and Rickenbacker. We also sell other sparkling fetish Italian garage-rock guitars such as Goya, Hagstrom, Marinucci and Crucuanelli, next to great Levin jazz archtops. Finally we have a great collection of Framus, Höfner, Hopf and other vintage German rock & roll guitars from the Star Club Hamburg era.
All our guitars and amplifiers are in (very) good, excellent or mint condition and are sold with OHSC and matching vintage strap unless - occassionally - mentioned otherwise. Our acoustic archtop and flattop guitars are sold with matching vintage floating or soundhole pickups that do not compromise the guitar.
We also sell professional high quality image products from vintage guitars such as posters, booklets, and calendars that are made in our own image studio.
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We buy, restore and sell vintage and used guitars, amplifiers and accessories. For our identification information refer to the About Us section on our website.
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We do our best to authenticate all parts, the finish and other components and aspects of the guitars and amplifiers that we sell, but - as everyone - we can make honest mistakes. Please read our return policy for details about returns.
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We can provide a 3-months buying option on specific instruments against a fee of 30% of the selling price, which will be deducted as advance at the final sales transaction.
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We accept cash on (local) pickup, IBAN or SWIFT bank wire money transfer, and PayPal.
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All items are carefully packed in cardboard boxes with lots of padding, and we take video clips of the packing process.
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Upon (signed) acceptance of the shipment by the buyer, ownership of the instrument is legally transfered to the buyer who is from that moment on responsible for the instrument.
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We comply with the European legislation about the 7-day Internet sales buyer protection period. For all other countries, a 48-hour buyer protection period is applicable for the buyer to verify that the instrument arrived safely and that it complies with the specifications as listed on our site.
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In case the buyer wants to return the instrument within the buyer protection period, the instrument must be returned in exactly the same condition as it was shipped. For that purpose, we will make a video clip of the unpacking process to avoid improper use of the buyer protection policy.
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The cost of return shipment must be beared by the buyer. Upon safe return of the instrument in the same condition as shipped, we will return the original purchase price minus any transaction costs that we may have occurred.
