1973 Martin D-18 Dreadnought Vintage Acoustic Guitar Square Shoulder w/ Case

Dexterity: Right-Handed
;Exact Year: 1973
;Brand: Martin
;String Configuration: 6 String
;Model: D-18
;MPN: Does Not Apply
;Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
;Body Type: Dreadnought
;UPC: Does not apply

1973 Martin D-18 Dreadnought Vintage Acoustic Guitar Square Shoulder w/ Case

Up for sale, a 1973 Martin D-18 dreadnought acoustic guitar in exceptional condition. A very clean and well cared for example, this vintage Martin has received all of the maintenance due a guitar of this vintage, with a professional neck reset and hand-carved bone saddle to ensure decades of future trouble-free use and accurate intonation. This guitar has a very sweet and powerful tone, with the booming bass and articulate treble response that comes from the classic combination of a solid spruce top and solid mahogany back and sides. Responsive and warm for fingerpicking and able to deliver a crisp tone with great string to string balance when strummed with a pick, there's plenty of tonal range and nuance available to you with this dreadnought. Professionally setup with ideal action and fresh phosphor bronze 12-53 strings, this Martin is ready for stage and studio work.
The mahogany neck has a very soft V profile that's moderately slender at the nut and grows in depth as you move into the higher registers of the fretboard. The original slender vintage frets are intact and have been recently leveled and crowned, currently showing only light wear beneath the G and B strings on frets 1-3, with virtually no wear further up the board. The rosewood fretboard has pearl dot inlay, with 14 frets clear of the body and Martin's traditional 25.4" scale. The headstock retains the original Grover Rotomatic chrome tuning machines and a minty Martin logo on the rosewood veneer on the headstock face.
The original rosewood bridge base sits flush with the top, and the top is very flat with virtually no pull behind the bridge. All of the original bridge pins are intact and the new carved bone saddle has plenty of height for decades of future adjustment. The neck reset was done very cleanly and professionally, with no finish overspray at the neck joint. On the heel block, the model name and serial number are clearly stamped as per Martin factory spec, and the Martin name is also stamped into the interior center seam on the back. All braces are structurally sound and in great shape as well.
Cosmetically, this guitar is a solid 9/10, with moderate finish checking, faint pick wear in the pick path (mostly on the original black teardrop pickguard) and one tiny filled and finished ding on the bass side of the top just north of the 20th fret. The guitar is crack-free and has some light finish scratches and nicks on the back and sides, but all extremely minor wear for a guitar that's over 40 years old.
A modern black tolex hardhsell case is included.

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1973 Martin D-18 Dreadnought Vintage Acoustic Guitar Square Shoulder w/ Case

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