Martin d28cw clarence white biography
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2003 Martin D-28CW
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Martin D-28 Guitar Review
by Todd Stuart Phillips
The anchor of Martin’s Standard Series of professional level acoustic guitars is the classic D-28.
Many people will find there is something so familiar about the Martin D-28. And no wonder! With the squared off shoulders and wide waist of the dreadnought size, a black pickguard to go along with the inky ebony bridge and fingerboard, its long pattern white dot fret markers that tie in so well with the white binding, set off by decorative black and white ply inlay around the sound hole and the edge of the spruce top, and its iconic headstock shape, the D-28 is by far the most imitated acoustic guitar in history. It remains the benchmark that other guitars are compared to, especially when it comes to the 14-fret dreadnought size, which has outsold all other designs for the past half a century.
Specs include: All solid wood construction throughout; East Indian rosewood back and sides; Sitka spruce top with 5/16” straight (non-scalloped) braces; mahogany low profile neck with 1-11/16” width at nut and 2-1/8” at the 12th fret; ebony fingerboard and bridge; bone saddle and nut with 2-1/8” string spacing; high gloss nitrocellulose finish on the body and a satin finish
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What Models Have the White Fingerboard Binding?
The LSV was patterned more or less after the Tony/Clarance guitar...it was not a signature model because they could not get agreement from Tony or from the CW estate. Later on, they worked that out, and came up with the CW signature. At least that's how I head the story.The Clarence, yes, and also the HD-28LSV has white binding
Finger board is off of a Gretch.
That was the story. Actually, a Gretsch would have had the wrong scale length and would not have worked. The story I heard from roland White was that it was a Gretsch blank for a fingerboard...and as such would not have had fret slots cut in it yet. That would have worked. It seems to have happened so long ago, and nobody thought it was important enough to pay much attention to at the time, that today I don't think anybody knows for sure. One thing is for sure, it's not a Martin fingerboard...it's too long.
Yes, you can custom order binding on the neck. And on the headstock if you want it.
I have a D-35 with a 1 3/4 inch wide neck on it with a diamond/volute (D-28LSV neck maybe?). The inlay is the old D-28 diamonds and squares pattern. AND it's bound. The neck was installed at the Martin factory. Not original work, but aftermarket custom work.