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Now in stock: Lowden F-25

Condition: New

Including: Lowden Hiscox case - Limited Lifetime Warranty  - 21% BTW/MwSt/VAT (fully deductible on purchase for outside the European Community based Customers & Outside Holland Based Entrepreneur with valid VAT number)

This is a Martin D-45 custom made from 1994, a rarity for the era that marks the beginning of the new 'Martin Golden Era'. A top notch Steel string guitar that is build in the tradition of the pre-war D-45 models, that will compete with every high end Martin guitar that they made over the last 20 years or so. First it's near mint condition and a truly amazing tone-machine. It looks and sounds amazing in every aspect, open, crisp, big, balanced, rich and complex are only a few words describing this guitar. This guitar features amazingly grained old growth Brazilian rosewood back and sides, with Martin Provenance certifying the wood was cut way before 1969, Engelmann spruce top, Mahogany neck, bound ebony fingerboard with Abalone snowflake position inlay, ivoroid bound headstock with Abalone CFM Martin Block inlay, Ivoroid bound body sided with abalone trim on top, sides, along the heel, fingerboard extension, and on the back, ebony bridge with snowflake inlays.

What makes this guitar quite unique is the mix of Prewar and modern features, scalloped bracing and a standard X, the Engelmann spruce top, none of them is a exact copy of traditional pre-war specs but somehow this guitar is extra ordinary from a tonal perspective, and i can imagine, since i have a preference for standard X position above Forward shifted. This guitar is overwhelming, powerful and beautiful at the same time, impressively crisp in the bass, and with a matured openness that most people used to newer guitars will have a hard time recognizing the sound. It's definitely capable of the flatpicking king of the band killing the loud banjo, but it also defines strumming in a new and is perhaps even more suitable as a perfect fingerstyle guitar-mate. The guitar is signed 'CF Martin IV on the custom label' and is in near mint condition. The playability is really awesome with low action, and lots of saddle left to lower further. Features include a 43.2mm (1 11/16") nut width, 645mm(25.4") Scale length and 55mm (2 1/8") fingerspacing at the saddle. The neck is a modified C shape, and the guitar travels in the original Martin Case.