Lots of histories 📖 inside her wood 🪵

Martin D-18 from 1973 specs:

The full factory technical specifications for the standard 1973 Martin D-18 include:

Body & Construction

• Body Type: 14-fret Dreadnought

• Top Material: Solid Sitka Spruce

• Back & Sides Material: Solid Mahogany

• Bracing: Traditional non-scalloped X-bracing (5/16" thick Sitka spruce)

• Bridge Material: East Indian Rosewood

• Pickguard: Black (often prone to shrinkage/edge peeling on 1970s models)

• Binding & Purfling: Black binding with black/white multi-ply purfling

• Finish: Nitrocellulose Gloss

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Solid Mahogany

• Neck Profile: Medium "C" to Soft "V" shape (typical '70s rounded carve)

• Truss Rod: Non-adjustable steel square tube

• Fingerboard Material: East Indian Rosewood

• Fingerboard Radius: 16"

• Scale Length: 25.4" (often listed precisely as 25.375")

• Nut Width: 1-11/16" (1.6875 inches)

• Frets Clear: 14 frets clear of the body

• Total Frets: 20

• Fingerboard Inlays: Mother of Pearl dots

• Headstock Overlay: Rosewood with old-style gold Martin decal

Hardware & Components

• Tuning Machines: Grover Rotomatics or chrome enclosed tuners (depending on the exact batch)

• Nut & Saddle Material: Originally synthetic/corian (many vintage models have since been upgraded to bone)

• Bridge Pins: Black plastic

Dimensions & Weight

• Lower Bout Width: 15-5/8"

• Body Depth: 4-7/8"

• Average Weight: Approximately 4 lbs 3 oz to 4 lbs 9 oz

It comes with a hardcase (not shown Martin logo on it, so not the original)

Original tuners ✅

Frets are fine and leveled ✅

No distorsion (almost) on the Top of the Body Top Wood 🪵

Bridge is fine ✅ and strongly glued

It sounds amazing! Sweet & thick. Powerfull and charming. Full of harmonics ✨ and has a lovely playability neck 🤤

There are a couple of cracks in the back of the body (easy and cheap to glue by a pro luthier)

One bridge pin is decapitated (again, easy, quick and cheap to replace) 👨🏻‍🔧

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