Martin Guitars
Top tier onlyCustom Shop Exclusive "Fried Rice" VTS Spruce/Wild Grain Rosewood Dreadnought Acoustic Guitar | New
Listed at Alamo Music · San Antonio, TX
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Alamo Music’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Alamo Music’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- Dreadnought
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Frets to body
- 14
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- New
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.
Alamo Music
Alamo Music Center is San Antonio's hometown music store — family-owned since 1929 and the oldest, longest-running instrument dealer in Texas. Alfredo Flores Sr. opened it as Alamo Music Exchange just months before the 1929 crash, and four generations on it's still in the Flores family, with showrooms downtown and in Austin. It's a full-service shop first — lessons, rentals, repair, financing, pianos, and band and orchestra instruments — rather than a boutique-acoustic specialist, and the catalog runs broad to match. For high-end flat-top shoppers, the draw is Martin: Alamo works directly with Martin's Custom Shop on shop-exclusive runs, including the "Alamo Authentic" guitars marking its 95th anniversary, alongside a deep Taylor selection (custom "Catch" builds included) and the occasional Furch, Larrivée, or Thorell. The boutique acoustic shelf is modest, but Alamo is the natural in-person stop for serious acoustic shopping in South Texas.
