Custom Shop Build Overview
This Martin Custom Shop OM-45 is a stunning, high-end build featuring hand-selected tonewoods and vintage-inspired appointments—designed to deliver exceptional tone, responsiveness, and visual elegance.
This guitar is in excellent condition, previously collector-owned and traded in toward another Custom Shop instrument. It shows no player wear and presents beautifully throughout.
Built around a hand-selected Premium Adirondack spruce top and Premium Indian rosewood back and sides, this OM-45 offers outstanding clarity, headroom, and overtone complexity. The tonewoods for this guitar were personally selected during a visit to the Martin factory, resulting in a truly special Custom Shop instrument.
The return of the OM-45 to the Standard Series inspired this build, enhanced with carefully chosen upgrades including a long saddle, Modified V neck with 1930s-style heel, and a thin finish for increased resonance and responsiveness.
Tone & Performance
This OM-45 delivers a refined and highly articulate voice, combining the power of Adirondack spruce with the depth and richness of rosewood.
- Exceptional headroom and responsiveness from the Adirondack top
- Deep, complex overtones from premium Indian rosewood
- Clear note separation with excellent balance across all strings
- Highly dynamic and expressive for fingerstyle and light strumming
The result is a guitar that feels lively, controlled, and inspiring in both studio and performance settings.
Custom Shop Craftsmanship
Handcrafted in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, this instrument features Martin’s traditional dovetail neck joint and premium tonewood construction for maximum resonance and long-term stability.
The forward-shifted Golden Era scalloped Adirondack bracing allows the top to move freely, enhancing sustain, projection, and tonal complexity.
Classic Style 45 appointments including abalone top inlay, rosette, and hexagon fingerboard inlays give this guitar its unmistakable visual presence.
Why This Guitar Stands Out
- Martin Custom Shop OM-45 (2025) build
- Hand-selected Premium Adirondack spruce top
- Premium Indian rosewood back and sides
- Vintage-inspired long saddle and Modified V neck with 30s heel
- Thin finish for enhanced resonance
- Full Style 45 abalone appointments
- Collector-owned, excellent condition with no player wear
- Handcrafted in Nazareth, Pennsylvania
Serial Number: 2983317
Professionally inspected and ready to ship.
Features & Specifications
- Construction: Mahogany Blocks / Dovetail Neck Joint
- Top: Hand Select Premium Adirondack Spruce
- Bracing: Forward Shifted X – Adirondack 1/4" Golden Era Scalloped
- Back & Sides: Hand Select Premium Indian Rosewood
- Neck: Genuine Mahogany – Modified V w/ 30s Style Heel
- Fingerboard & Bridge: Ebony
- Nut Width: 1 3/4"
- Scale Length: 25.4"
- Frets Clear: 14
- Bridge Spacing: 2 1/4"
- Nut & Saddle: Bone
- Top Inlay & Rosette: Abalone w/ Multi-Stripe
- Back Purfling / Side Inlay: Style 45
- Fingerboard Inlays: Style 45 Hexagon
- Fingerboard Binding: Antique White w/ Multi-Stripe
- Binding: Antique Binding
- Headplate: Block Inlay Pearl
- Tuners: Gold Grover
- Finish Top: Aging Toner
- Finish Neck: Gloss
- Bridge Style: GE Belly
- Bridge & End Pins: Bone w/ Paua
- Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
- Case: Geib Hardshell Case
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