This is a Custom Brazilian Rosewood D-Sized Guitar by Mark Taylor of Crafters of Tennessee. The back and sides are beautiful old growth Brazilian rosewood with a Sitka Spruce Top. The top is Forward X-Braced, voiced, and scalloped, patterned after a 1936 D-28 Martin Herringbone. This guitar was hand scalloped and voiced by Mark Taylor. The top is bound with grained ivoroid and Herringbone. It also features a Grevens Tor-tek pickguard. The back is multi-bound with grained ivoroid and black/white/black binding featuring a multi-checkered marquetry zipper. The butt strap is curly maple with an abalone dot inlaid strap button. The bridge is ebony with genuine bone through saddle that also features abalone dot inlaid bridge pins. The neck is Mahogany with the diamond volute, bone nut, and grained ivoroid heel cap. The tuners are Grover open-back butterbeans (18:1 Ratio). The peghead features the Deluxe Tennessee MOP design in an Ebony overlay. The fingerboard features an original design by Mark Taylor inlaid with Mother of Pearl and Abalone inlays. It also has D-45 style slotted diamond abalone markers at the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th, 12th, with ovals at the 17th and 19th frets.

This guitar has excellent action with a great setup. She is an absolute cannon and will blow you away with her sound. It has all of the power and boom of a pre-war Martin with very clean and balanced tone. The overall condition of this guitar is excellent, but it does have some minor wood checking on the back, there are no other cracks anywhere on the guitar and the top is nice and flat and in excellent condition. The wood checking on the back does not take away from the sound of this guitar at all and other than the minor checking, Mark considers this guitar to be flawless.

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