Martin only produced 250 of these Marty Stuart D-40s, making this a pretty rare bird on the market these days. This example plays and sounds wonderful thanks to the light bracing, lively sitka top, and the comfortable neck - which is modeled after Marty’s Hank Williams’-owned 1939 D-45. Those distinctive horseshoes/steer skull/hearts/dice/flower inlays and the pearl herringbone soundhole rosette were conceptualized by Marty himself, and the label bears both his signature and that of C.F. Martin IV. The guitar is all original, and besides a center seam finish crack (doesn’t go through to the wood) and a few shallow dings here and there it’s very clean. Giddyup!
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