The Custom Shop 000-18 makes it easier than ever to get your hands on a handcrafted Martin built with premium tonewoods. With a solid Adirondack spruce top and genuine mahogany back and sides, this short-scale Auditorium model offers warm, articulate tone with exceptional clarity. It features hand-shaped Golden Era scalloped bracing and a dovetail neck joint for vintage-inspired resonance and response. The 000 body is equally at home with fingerpicking, strumming, or recording, and the faux tortoise binding adds a refined, custom touch. Designed to bring Custom Shop quality to more players, this special model is ready when you are—no need to start from scratch. For those seeking an heirloom-level guitar within reach, the Custom Shop 000-18 delivers.
Features :
- Top Material: Adirondack Spruce
- Finish Top: Gloss
- Top Color: Aging Toner
- Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
- Top Detail: None
- Binding: Faux Tortoise
- Bridge Material: Ebony
- Bridge Style: GE Modern Belly - Drop in Saddle
- Bridge String Spacing: 2 5/32"
- Bridge Pin Material: Black Plastic
- Bridge Pin Dots: None
- Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
- Pickguard Inlay: None
- Rosette: Old Style 18 Multi-Stripe
- Saddle: Bone
- Saddle Radius: 16"
- Body Size: 000-14 Fret
- Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
- Back Material: Genuine Mahogany
- Side Material: Genuine Mahogany
- Back and Side Finish: Gloss
- Back and Sides Color: Dark Mahogany
- Back Detail: None
- Side Detail: None
- Back Purfling/Strip: Style 18
- Back Inlay Material: None
- Side Inlay Material: None
- Bracing Pattern: Forward-Shifted X-Brace
- Brace Shape: GE-Scalloped Hand Shaped
- Brace Material: Adirondack Spruce
- Brace Size: 5/16"
- Heelcap: Faux Tortoise
- Endpiece: Faux Tortoise
- Endpiece Inlay: None
- Neck Shape: GE Modified Low Oval
- Neck Taper: High-Performance Taper
- Neck Material: Select Hardwood
- Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
- Finish Neck: Satin
- Scale Length: 24.9"
- Number of Frets Total: 20
- Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
- Fingerboard Material: Ebony
- Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret: 2 1/8''
- Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 3/4''
- Fingerboard Inlay Style: Old Style 18
- Fingerboard Inlay Material: Abalone
- Fingerboard Binding Material: None
- Side Dots: White
- Headstock Shape: Solid with Square Taper
- Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood
- Headplate Logo Style: Authentic Style Script Overlay
- Headplate Binding Material: None
- Tuning Machines: Nickel Open Gear
- Knob: Butterbean
- Nut Material: Bone
- Case: Hardshell