2024 - Martin Custom Shop OM 20th Century Limited

All aboard! Martin and Pennsylvania-based watchmaker RGM have teamed up once again to create something truly unique—the OM 20th Century Limited. Celebrating technology and innovation, this limited-edition handcrafted work of art pays tribute to the Art Deco-inspired passenger train of the same name that revolutionized travel in the mid-1930s—around the time that would become known as Martin’s “Golden Era,” when the company’s instruments began to revolutionize music. This guitar is full of intricate design elements, including custom streamliner-inspired inlay throughout, European flamed maple binding, gold open back tuning machines, and an inlaid ebony pickguard. The OM 20th Century Limited also features hide glue construction, a spruce VINTAGE TONE SYSTEM® (VTS) top, and Guatemalan rosewood back and sides for superior tone. The guitar even comes with a custom, handcrafted railroad-inspired watch from acclaimed watchmaker RGM. Only 20 of these elegant OM 20th Century Limited guitars will be built.

Other specifications include:

• Body Size: 000-14 Fret
• Finish Top: Gloss
• Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint - Hide Glue Construction
• Back and Side Finish: Gloss
• Bracing Pattern: X-Brace
• Scale Length: 25.4"
• Brace Shape: Scalloped
• Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 3/4''
• Top Material: Sitka Spruce with VTS
• Neck Shape: Vintage Deluxe
• Back Material: Guatemalan Rosewood
• Neck Taper: Standard Taper
• Side Material: Guatemalan Rosewood
• Electronics: No
• Top Color: Clear
• Bridge Style: Modern Pyramid - Drop in Saddle
• Binding: European Flamed Maple
• Bridge String Spacing: 2 1/4''
• Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
• Bridge Material: Ebony
• Top Detail: Custom Design
• Bridge Pin Material: Liquidmetal®
• Pickguard: Ebony Inlaid into Top
• Bridge Pin Dots: Abalone
• Pickguard Inlay: Custom Inlay
• Saddle: Compensated Bone
• Rosette: Custom Inlay
• Saddle Radius: 16"
• Brace Material: Adirondack Spruce with VTS
• Back and Sides Color: None
• Brace Size: 1/4"
• Back Detail: Custom Inlay
• Back Purfling/Strip: Custom
• Back Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
• Heelcap: European Flamed Maple
• Side Detail: None
• Endpiece: European Flamed Maple
• Side Inlay Material: None
• Endpiece Inlay: Multi-Stripe
• Neck Material: Genuine Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Ebony
• Finish Neck: Satin
• Fingerboard Width at 12th Fret: 2 1/4''
• Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
• Fingerboard Inlay Style: Custom Inlay
• Number of Frets Total: 20
• Fingerboard Inlay Material: Mother of Pearl
• Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
• Fingerboard Binding Material: None
• Side Dots: Abalone
• Headstock Shape: Solid with Square Taper and Diamond
• Tuning Machines: Waverly Gold Open Back
• Headplate Material: Ebony
• Knob: Butterbean
• Headplate Logo Style: Custom Inlay
• Nut Material: Bone
• Headplate Binding Material: None
• Case: Hardshell
• Label: Embossed Paper Label, Numbered in Sequence w/Total; 1 of 20, 2 of 20, etc.
• Pleked: true
• 4 lbs 1 oz
• 2871709

For more information about the Martin 20th Century Limited, please contact us.

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