Martin Guitars
Top tier onlyD-28 Authentic 1937 Brazilian Rosewood (2007)
2007 · Listed at Action Music · Falls Church, VA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Action Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Action Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- Brazilian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- D
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2007
Martin Guitars
Founded in 1833 and still building in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, Martin effectively invented the American flat-top — and its Custom Shop is where that lineage still gets made by hand, one guitar at a time. On the Atlas you'll find only that end of the company: built-to-order Custom Shop instruments and the Authentic Series' pre-war reproductions (hide glue, hand-shaped bracing, VTS-aged tops), not the standard catalog.
Action Music
Action Music is a Falls Church, Virginia independent founded in 1997 by Matt Baker, built around an on-site repair bench staffed by working musicians. Baker came to the trade through Bryan Galloup's Guitar Hospital in Big Rapids, Michigan — one of the country's serious repair-certification programs — and through years touring as guitar tech for national acts. His partner Mike Dutton, an Alexandria native, anchors the playing side, with a long resume backing regional and touring blues artists and current work in the Rogue Johnsen Project and The Snake Farmers. The shop reflects both perspectives — a broad floor of electric guitars, amps, and effects for gigging players alongside a thoughtful boutique-acoustic shelf anchored on Huss & Dalton and Collings. As the only Atlas dealer in the immediate DC metro, they're the natural in-person stop for Virginia, Maryland, and DC area players.
