A clear cut example of too much of a good thing.

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Martin's one millionth guitar. Make sure you notice the sides of the guitar.
 

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The headstock of the same.
 

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And the back.


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I have a friend who is a Martin dealer who just came back from the NAMM show and told us he had ordered a D-100, which are the limited edition guitars commerating the one millionth guitar.


Martins site on the D-100


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There's only one word to describe that guitar.......





































GHETTO-TIZED!

:D:D:D:D
 
Wow.

That really is frightening, isn't it?

Does it come with patent leather shoes?
Do you have to wear a baby blue tuxedo when you play it?

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does it come with a black caddy and a do-it-yourself gold teeth kit?









freak
 
The part I find really annoying about the thing is that, Martin tied up Larry Robinson (who is widely considered the countries best inlay artist) for a full year, on ONE guitar. It was just about impossible for those of us who use him to do our custom inlay on our guitars to get any thing out of him. Because we are regular customers, we managed to get three fairly simple fingerboards out of him, but if we had needed anything more than that, we were fucked. The only other guy I know of who cuts pearl that well is Grit Laskin (whose design sense is more in line with my own than Larry's), and he only cuts for his own guitars.

Grit is still far to busy for my tastes, but to get an idea of what he does, click on the cover of the new book on his inlay work
HERE. THIS is even better. MORE. YET MORE. THIS ONE of Charlie Parker is perhaps the best piece of inlay work I have ever seen, and it is all cut by hand. LASTLY, his own websites inlay gallery. Grit is also a really fine songwriter and folk musician. Great work, just too fussy for my tastes. I don't even like face dots on my guitars.


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all thats missing is port hole cover to be able to spin like the G-Unit necklace... does 50 cent know who to play guitar?
 
Light,Im sure that your shop could benefit from the Bowman
patented rhinestone removal method.Just send that 1908 Martin to me and I give you a free sample of my work..........
 
SHEPPARDB. said:
Light,Im sure that your shop could benefit from the Bowman
patented rhinestone removal method.Just send that 1908 Martin to me and I give you a free sample of my work..........
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Wouldn't do you much good, what with the bridge, neck, side, and the bar frets removed (try buying THEM from Jim Dunlop. Not gonna happen). Those bar frets are a major league pain too. We can only get them from Martin, and only in VERY limited quantities. You have to be a warranty center to get them.


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