{"product_id":"c-f-martin-00-41-custom-shop-elderly-instruments-special-flat-top-acoustic-guitar-2016-11775","title":"C. F. Martin 00-41 Custom Shop Elderly Instruments Special Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (2016)","description":"C. F. Martin 00-41 Custom Shop Elderly Instruments Special Model Flat Top Acoustic Guitar (2016), made in Nazareth, PA, serial # 1997790, natural lacquer finish, Guatemala Rosewood back and sides, Italian Alpine spruce top, mahogany neck with ebony fingerboard, original black tolex hard shell case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lovely and slightly unusual Martin Custom Shop limited edition, originally build for well-known Michigan dealer Elderly Instruments, apparently as specials for the 2016 NAMM show. Supposedly only around five or six of these were made to these specs. And that's it. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDesignated a 00-41 this guitar features mostly features prewar style specs. on a 14-fret 00 body. The top is Italian Alpine spruce with nice straight grain, abalone trim, a vintage repro tortoise pattern pickguard and critically pre-war pattern scalloped bracing with a small maple bridge plate. The back and sides are beautiful book-matched Guatemala Rosewood with multi-color center strip, bound with grained ivoried. The neck is mahogany with a soft \"modified-V\" profile, traditional volute, ivoried heel cap and a bone nut with the earlier 1930s 1-3\/4\" width. The ebony bridge is a vintage repro with a through bone saddle and 45-style pins; it features the wider 2-3\/16\" string spacing usually preferred by fingerpickers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe ebony fretboard is bound in ivoried and inlaid with an unusual variation on 45-style position markers; instead of full pearl pieces they consist of abalone borders only giving a very understated and delicate look. The face plate is rosewood and has a similar treatment to the vertical \"CF Martin\" logo. The tuners are gold-plated openback Grovers with butterbean buttons. The back of the headstock is stamped with \"Elderly Instruments, Est. 1972 Lansing, MI\" instead of the Martin logo. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a lovely smaller body Martin, vintage styled but the inlay variation gives it a unique look. This 00 feels and plays like one of the company's high end pre-war reproduction models, an excellent fingerpicker with a lot of muscle as a straight strummer as well. It comes with the original Geib-style case with the \"Cabernet\" interior.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOverall length is 39 1\/4 in. (99.7 cm.), 14 1\/4 in. (36.2 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 4 in. (10.2 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 24 3\/4 in. (629 mm.). Width of nut is 1 3\/4 in. (44 mm.). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis guitar appears not much used over the past decade, showing only some light handling marks and very small scuffs. There is a bit of fret wear under the B and high E strings in the first position but the guitar plays extremely well with a very big sound for a modern 00 feeling like it is just starting to age in. The guitar is complete in the original HSC. Excellent + Condition.","brand":"C. F. Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53002944774284,"sku":"11775","price":4750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/8702\/3756\/files\/01_f6fb0450-7ec7-49f9-ad06-b3e5ec046c9c.jpg?v=1787085724","url":"https:\/\/retrofret.com\/products\/c-f-martin-00-41-custom-shop-elderly-instruments-special-flat-top-acoustic-guitar-2016-11775","provider":"RetroFret","version":"1.0","type":"link"}