Details

Meet your brand-new old friend. The Martin DE Retro Plus Mahogany is the real deal – a genuine Martin that’s not your grandparent’s guitar but might one day be your grandkid’s. Inspired by our legendary 18-style flagship models, this acoustic-electric Dreadnought combines powerful tone and iconic design with cutting-edge craftsmanship. Its torrefied solid spruce top is thermally aged for enhanced resonance and a beautifully seasoned sound, delivering the rich, broken-in tone of a vintage instrument from the first strum. It’s the same premium feature long reserved for our Authentic and Modern Deluxe series, now available for the first time ever in the Road Series. Combined with solid mahogany back and sides, scalloped spruce X bracing, a Performing Artist neck, and an ebony fingerboard and bridge, this guitar has everything you could want in an acoustic. It even comes stage-ready with Martin E1 electronics, featuring a built-in tuner and controls for dialing in your perfect live tone. Ideal as a gigging workhorse or your first step into premium acoustics, this guitar delivers best-in-class quality at an unbeatable value for serious players, and a lifetime of inspiration for anyone who picks one up. Just be warned, you won’t be able to put it down – because nothing compares to a Martin.

Wood grain may vary from product photos shown. 

Specifications

OVERVIEW

• Body Size: D-14 Fret
• Construction: Mortise & Tenon Neck Joint
• Bracing Pattern: X-Brace
• Brace Shape: Scalloped
• Top Material: Torrefied Spruce
• Back & Side Material: Mahogany
• Electronics: Martin E1
• Finish Top: Gloss
• Back & Side Finish: Gloss
• Scale Length: 25.4"
• Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 3/4"
• Neck Shape: PA Profile
• Neck Taper: High-Performance Taper

TOP

• Top Color: Aging Toner
• Binding: Black
• Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
• Top Detail: None
• Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
• Pickguard Inlay: None
• Rosette: Old Style 18 Boltaron
• Bridge Style: Modern Belly
• Bridge String Spacing: 2 5/32"
• Bridge Material: Ebony
• Bridge Pin Material: Black Plastic
• Bridge Pin Dots: None
• Saddle: White Tusq
• Saddle Radius: 16"

BODY

• Brace Material: Spruce
• Brace Size: 5/16"
• Back Purfling/Strip: None
• Heelcap: Black
• Endpiece: None
• Endpiece Inlay: None
• Back & Sides Color: Dark Mahogany
• Back Detail: None
• Back Inlay Material: None
• Side Detail: None
• Side Inlay Material: None

NECK

• Neck Material: Select Hardwood
• Finish Neck: Satin
• Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
• Number of Frets Total: 20
• Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
• Side Dots: White
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony
• Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret: 2 1/8"
• Fingerboard Inlay Style: Old Style 18
• Fingerboard Inlay Material: Faux Abalone
• Fingerboard Binding Material: None

HEADSTOCK

• Headstock Shape: Solid
• Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood
• Headplate Logo Style: Script Old Style Overlay
• Headplate Binding Material: None
• Tuning Machines: Nickel Open Gear
• Knob: Butterbean
• Nut Material: White Corian

MISC

• Case: Softshell
• Label: Paper Label
• Pleked: True