Description
Exc(-) condition. SN: 279609.
1 11/16″ width at nut. 2 1/8″ pin spacing.
No cracks – Low action – Recent fret work.
Beautiful Rosewood with silky Spruce top. Mahogany neck. Fully bound with white antique’d bindings. Rosewood peghead overlay with CF MARTIN inlaid in large stylized letters. Ebony fingerboard with hexagonal abalone inlays. Top has abalone purflings around top edge, soundhole rosette, and along fingerboard extension.
Wooden marquetry back strip. Cream heelcap and end wedge. Ebony bridge. White pins with abalone dots. Nickel patent pending Grover Rotomatic tuners. Diamond volute behind nut. Bone nut and saddle. Original black pickguard is nice and flat.
Recent fret work – no fret v-dents. Back of neck shows hand wear thru the finish and some significant marks (although small), in back of neck from 8th fret toward heel… * We’ll be sure to take good photos of this area so you can see it clearly. Strap button installed on heelcap. B-band pickup professionally installed, with control wheels inside soundhole. The top has finish crazing, but doesn’t look bad. There is some selective hand touch-up on wear areas in front of bridge and around inside edge of soundhole. Some player wear thru finish off bottom corner of pickguard.
Frank Bramante, a key builder of Rosewood guitars with Bob Givens, upgraded this D-41 by adding abalone along fingerboard.
Tone is very strong. This guitar has been owned by a serious player for many years. Good punchy attack with a very strong voice. In a perfect world every 1970’s Martin would be built as good and sound as good as this one.
