Martin Guitars
Top tier onlyNew Martin Custom OM-42 1935 Sunburst VTS
Listed at Willie's American Guitars · Saint Paul, MN · Dealer ref #388
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Willie's American Guitars’ site.
Photos hot-linked from Willie's American Guitars’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Sitka Spruce
- Back / Sides
- East Indian Rosewood
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- OM
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- 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.
Willie's American Guitars
Willie's American Guitars is a long-running Saint Paul anchor in the Mac-Groveland neighborhood, operating since the 1980s and specializing in vintage and boutique acoustic guitars in equal measure. The floor pairs deep Martin and Gibson vintage with curated new boutique builds — Collings, Santa Cruz, and Larrivée rotate alongside Martin Custom Shop and the occasional surprise in their "Other" subcategory. The shop is small enough to know every instrument on the wall and old enough that the wall has seen a lot of inventory pass through. For Upper Midwest players, they're the closest serious destination for both ends of the acoustic spectrum — current builds and historic instruments under one roof.
