This original vintage Martin guitar is 100 years old.  Set up perfectly and an inspiring Instrument for the player and the collector. But I think this guitar is much to vivid to spend the rest of its life sleeping in the case or hanging on the wall behind glass.

Braced for gut-strings it will also take “Silk and Steel. And what a sound..! Aged and dry Brazilian rosewood for back and sides and adirondack-spruce on the top give it a full and warm bass, strong mids and crisp highs , all together balanced quite right with an angelic sustain.

100 years left some traces, honest playwear in fact. A few cracks in the sides, cleated and stable ,none on the top! Some playing-wear around the sound-hole, a few dings here and there. A tiny piece of one snowflake-inlay is missing. Fret-board, frets ,bridge and bridge-pins are original.

Replaced bone-saddle and I am not quite sure about the tunersto be original ..anyway, they are working perfect. 12fret from the body-neck is dead-straight ,neck-set was done recently  and back of neck has seen some french polish. This is the one for the fingerpicker.

This was one of my first guitars acquired more than 25 years ago.