Martin D21 custom adironcdack madagascar rosewood

Martin D21 custom
adirondack spruce top
Madagascar rosewood back and sides
One piece mahogany neck
Straight braces

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• Martin
• D21
• custom
• adironcdack
• madagascar
• rosewood

[MultiParasite]

Hi, in one of your comments you say it has a German top (quote- "This custom was built in the spirit of Neil young 1969 d45 guitar (german top and staight braces)"), but the description says it's an adirondack top, souds like adi too. Where's the truth?

[perninjeremy]

@MultiParasite

Hi, this particular guitar has an adirondack top, even if it was built in "the neil young spirit". Actually 2 customs were built at the same time, to compare them, both with madagascar rosewood and straight braces, but one with adi top, and the other with alpine spruce top.

[perninjeremy]

unfortunately, only one of these guitars was mine, and I own only one guitar, a terrific MJ FRANKS OM DB

[ssg04c]

Why straight braces instead of scalloped?

[perninjeremy]

This custom was built in the spirit of Neil young 1969 d45 guitar (german top and staight braces).

Straight braces offers a balanced sound. Such a guitar is very easy to record, and can be fingerpicked and strummed. It takes a little more time to open up, but after few months,the sounds is very great.

Scalopped braces offers a boomy sound, really nice when the guitar is strummed . but it's more difficult to control the boominess with fingers.

[perninjeremy]

Hello.

This guitar is a custom order at the Martin custom Shop. The order start with a D21 model. The custom options were : adirondack top, mahogany neck (with no wings, and madagascar rosewood back and sides.

This guitar was recorded with 2 sony mics, direct in a single yamaha mixer, sending the signal to the inboard Imac soundcard. No effect except reverb.

Saddly, You can only buy this guitar if you order it through the Martin custom shop.

Great guitar for sure.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 You are so fool of shit. MT. is prewar. the 16 line was made before any HD28,HD35. Martin never made a prewar scalloped guitar in the USA .Until the HD28V. The HD,28, HD-35, isn't prewar bracing.The HD-28V is. The CW D-28 is.The 16 was made first and scalloped.People loved them. So they started making the HD-28,HD-35,Then they dropped the D-16 line. The 16 line has a much better bracing then the standard scalloped. My HD-16RLSH sounds better then the HD28's. 16 line sounds better.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 The HD-28, introduced in 1976[11] replicates pre-1947 "'bone" D-28s with herringbone purfling (then manufactured only in pre-war Germany[12]) and scalloped braces. It is an extremely popular guitar with a full sound, good balance between bass and treble.

HD-35: Similar material and style to the HD-28, but has a distinctive 3-piece solid East Indian Rosewood back and 1/4" scalloped braces. I said before HD-28,and HD-35. I said D-16 was there Ginny Pig.

[BlindTom61]

@bluegrasssingingman The 1961 date is wrong that is a well-known mistake. Martin never used the MT (cheaper to make) joint before the DT which is the neck joint they used sine the 1850s when they left the ice-cream-cone clock key/screw neck joint. You actually know zip about Martins. Still you like Bluegrass so you are all right in my book. Just don't know your guitars young man! ;- ) I'm 66 been playing for 58 years... go talk to a guitar picker who can play, they'll help you out.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 16-Series: Style 16 guitars were first introduced in 1961. Later, they were the first production Martins to utilize sustainable, native woods such as ash and walnut, as well as the first to implement hybrid A-frame "X" bracing. Today, these models use solid woods such as mahogany, East Indian rosewood, koa, sapele and maple. Models include DC-16RE Aura, OMC-16E Koa, D-16 GT, 000C-16RGTE Aura and the J12-16GT, a 12-string jumbo-size guitar with the series 16 appointments.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 Do you even know what a X, A frame bracing looks like? A standard X is still a A Frame. So what your claiming is scalloped bracing is heavier. So it needs a DT neck. Scalloped bracing is lighter. The only difference in the bracing is thickness,position,shape. On a Reg. A Bracing the saddle is box in. There is one brace in the belly instead of two. Your X is still a A Frame. I own the diagrams, of the Martin bracing patterns. Look at the HD16R LSH, and look at a HD28.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 Pre- war used MT necks. MT necks was made way before DT on guitars. A standard x is still a A Frame, besides difference in being shifted, or not. Thickness is a difference, other then this they are still a A Frame.

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 What can't you understand? The d-16 came out years ago. Then wasn't made anymore. Now they are again. Yes the d-28 is a standard A Frame. The HD-28, HD-35 is a A frame scalloped. The Clarance White is a D-28 with prewar forward shifted scalloped bracing. The D-16 line has Scalloped"Hybrid"A Frame. The D-16 has a MT neck. HD-DT neck. The Clarance White is a D-28, Standard ''X'' Scalloped, Forward Shifted with a DT neck. They are still a frame. What does DT,MT has to do with it.

[BlindTom61]

@bluegrasssingingman Let's see.. Martins in the '30s had scalloped braces yet you keep on insisting the 16 was the first with scalloped braces. D-16s have not been around that long. So you are obviously wrong here. Then you say the D-28 has modded A scalloped bracing. First, modded A bracing requires a mortoise and tenon joint and a D-28 has a dovetail joint with straight un-scalloped braces. HD-28 is the same WITH scalloped standard braces. Sheesh! :- )

[bluegrasssingingman]

@BlindTom61 I'm not the one that is wrong.