Martin Guitars
Top tier onlyNew Martin Custom Shop 00 28 Style Deep Body Sinker Redwood + Bastogne Walnut Thunder Road Spec
Listed at Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle) · Seattle, WA
Tracked on Tonewood Atlas — view the full listing at Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle)’s site.
Photos hot-linked from Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle)’s site — never rehosted.
Specs
- Top
- Redwood
- Back / Sides
- Walnut
- Neck
- Mahogany
- Fingerboard
- Ebony
- Body shape
- 00
- Scale length
- 24.9"
- Nut width
- 1 3/4"
- 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.
Thunder Road Guitars (Seattle)
Thunder Road Guitars opened in Seattle's Ballard neighborhood in 2009 as an independently-owned family business with deep used and vintage shelves alongside a dense electric, amp, and pedal catalog. The acoustic floor leans heavily on the high-end mass-market custom shops — Fender Custom Shop, Gibson Custom, and Martin in serious depth — with the boutique slice sitting underneath: Collings as the constant, and the shop holding authorized-stockist status with both Collings and Lowden. They added a sister store in Portland's St. Johns in 2017, but each location runs its own inventory under a shared umbrella website — so Seattle stock and Portland stock don't pool. The Ballard floor is what ships out of Ballard.
