1975 Martin D-35

Guitar is in excellent condition. a ball point pen made a blue dot on the face bellow the saddle. Very near flawless finish excellent.

Luthier repaired very small gouge that an older retired luthier made. He thought he saw a crack. there was no crack. A local repair shop in my home town, did the cosmetic damage. I had several luthiers look at what he did. Thank the guitar gods there are honest luthiers out there. I was fortunate to find them. The gouge he made did not go all the way through the top. It has been cleated, never went through the wood just surface. The cleats were for just in case. The 1 1/4 inch gouge was also filled with epoxy.

Beautiful east Indian three piece back. Serial #354788 on the inside butt end behind neck on neck block. Original case. I had the tuners changed by a professional luthier of 40 years experience. Changed from the original chrome button glover 14:1, which I still have to gold original Grover 18:1 sealed gold button type, life time guarantee all else is original in excellent condition.

I am currently having some of the worn frets changed to keep it sounding top shelf. I am second owner. It went from owners hands to sellers hands to mine, been mine for 27 years. I have two humidifiers that are monitered constantly, the small bag type, one in the hole and one at the head end of case. sometimes I remove one to keep humiditity ideal. I keep the temperature between 72-77 degrees F. Humidity between 42-47. It is monitored daily. It is one of life's little wonders to listen to, and play. It has an easy fast action. I recently had my luthier put a bone saddle in. Can hardly wait to get it back. Soon I hope!


ANSWER

Hi, steveyz711--

What a lucky guitar to have such fine care!

Here is the general info:


D-35
- dreadnought body style, solid spruce top, three-piece Brazilian rosewood (1965-69) or Indian rosewood (1969-present) back, Brazilian rosewood (1965-69) or Indian rosewood (1969-present) sides, round soundhole with 5/9/5 grouping ring rosette, six-ply top body binding, three-ply back binding with white outer layer, side binding with two black lines, mahogany neck, 14/20-fret bound ebony fingerboard with pearl dot inlays, rosewood headstock overlay with logo and three-per-side chrome tuners, ebony bridge with white bridge pins and black dots, tortoise (1965-69) or black (1969-present) pickguard, available in Natural or Sunburst (optional) finish, 25.4 in. scale, mfg. 1965-present.

The pricing info:

1969-1979 Indian Rosewood

Excellent $1,850 - 2,250
Average $1,200 - 1,500

Lynne