Martin Guitars
Top tier only2014 Martin 000-28K Authentic 1921 Acoustic Guitar-Used
2014 · Listed at Gryphon Stringed Instruments · Palo Alto, CA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Gryphon Stringed Instruments’ site.
$6,400
Last seen 21h ago on dealer site
Photos hot-linked from Gryphon Stringed Instruments’ site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Koa
- Back / Sides
- Koa
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 000
- Scale length
- 25.4"
- Nut width
- 1 7/8"
- Frets to body
- 12
- Strings
- 6
- Cutaway
- No
- Condition
- Preowned
- Year
- 2014
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.
Gryphon Stringed Instruments
Gryphon Stringed Instruments began in a Palo Alto garage in 1969, building steel-string guitars, F-style mandolins, and banjo necks. Repair work overtook luthiery by 1972, and a 1973 storefront made the retail-plus-repair shift permanent. The shop also runs as a longstanding music school — Carol McComb's Folk Guitar Workshops anchor an instruction calendar that operates alongside the retail floor. Mainstays remain acoustic guitars, mandolins, and banjos, with a deliberate share of the catalog given to small companies and individual makers, and no commissioned sales staff.
