1944 Martin 0-18 — Wartime Adirondack Top / Scalloped Bracing

Offered for sale is a beautiful and highly resonant 1944 Martin 0-18 — one of the most sought-after wartime Martin models, featuring an Adirondack spruce top, scalloped bracing, and the dry, woody mahogany tone these guitars are famous for.

This example has recently been professionally serviced and is fully playable with an excellent setup. It has the open, responsive character that makes wartime Martins so special: warm mids, quick attack, airy trebles, and a surprisingly full low end for a small-body instrument.

Features & Specs

• 1944 Martin 0-18
• Adirondack wide-grain spruce top
• Mahogany back, sides, and neck
• Brazilian rosewood fretboard & bridge
• Scalloped bracing
• Soft V-taper neck profile
• 1 11/16” nut width
• Bone nut & saddle
• Setup with Martin Retro 11–52 strings
  

Condition / Work Performed

• Recent professional neck reset
• Hand-carved nut and saddle by Patrick McGrath at McGrath Guitar Repair (Huntington Beach, CA)
• Crack repairs (top, back, and side) professionally completed by master luthier Addam Stark (Santa Cruz, CA)
• Structurally solid and playing comfortably up the neck

This guitar has the honest wear and mature voice you’d hope for from an 80+ year-old Martin. It’s lightweight, incredibly responsive, and a joy for fingerstyle, recording, blues, folk, and old-time playing.

Includes non-original hard shell case. No refunds or exchanges so please ask any and every question prior to purchase!

**Video is not of the guitar listed but serves as a great representation of 0-18s built in the tail end of Martin’s Golden Era (1944)