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Just came across this photo from when I visited the C.F.Martin factory last summer.

looks like something from aqua teen hunger force?

martins are nice though

Looks like there's a motherboard inside of it. Whaaa?

$2,000 plus martins are good, the few cheaper modles i have played seem like the same quility as cheaper alvarez models

robert(original) wrote:$2,000 plus martins are good, the few cheaper modles i have played seem like the same quility as cheaper alvarez models

i dig alvarez

ME TOO!
years ago i dated a chick that had a parlor sized modle that had a solid top, and sounded fantastic, but i can't seem to find that same modle anyway!
i wish i would have kept billys black one that ibought years ago.
you ever seen the ani defranco modle?

robert(original) wrote:ME TOO!
years ago i dated a chick that had a parlor sized modle that had a solid top, and sounded fantastic, but i can't seem to find that same modle anyway!
i wish i would have kept billys black one that ibought years ago.
you ever seen the ani defranco modle?

seems like they get rid of models quite quickly sometimes

robert(original) wrote:$2,000 plus martins are good, the few cheaper modles i have played seem like the same quility as cheaper alvarez models

The best Martin I ever played was a Martin DC1E. Not overly expensive around 1100 new. It WAS NOT the new dx or dm series with the weird laminate necks and weird bracings. It was basicly a d-16 cutaway/electric with a satin finish on the whole guitar (no gloss on top) which just gave it the most open and warm tone I ever heard. Great for acoustic rhythym tones (I don't play lead). It had a fairly thick neck (which I like).....
Great guitar. They just started making them again, I hope they are the same design that I had.

no gloss, oiled tops FTW!

I dig old Martins in the same way I dig vintage Guilds...That full bass response and tight high end makes makes mic placement and ambient recording a cinch delight.


The above two remind me of the Surfer hangout/Les Baxter orchestrations fetish that a corner of my mind has, to eventually have a decked-out Tiki lounge in a guest house on the property some day when I'm relocated to SoCal, quasi-well off, and severely obese. I'm convinced Walt Disney had my imagination in mind, sans Mai Tai's and Bottomless Hawaiian Punch.

the tiki room used to freak me out as a child. my sister is convinced one of the birds is bing crosby.

i've been really contemplating getting a nice acoustic. i have the rogue version of the D-15 in honduran mahogany. i played one at MF a few years back, and it felt exactly the same, except it has no shell, just straight wood. the tone was the difference. played the same, sounded 114x better.

i'll have to sell a couple 'lectrics to get her, i'd imagine.

Justin J wrote:the tiki room used to freak me out as a child. my sister is convinced one of the birds is bing crosby.

LOLZ. The entrance tiki gods would make me cry, but the show music was a delight as a kid.

Curious how they didn't go PC with the birds, though. Last time when Cindi and I were there I vividly remember Jose still saying after the thunder storm "I tink someone forgot to turn off da chower" in that forced-intonation Speedy Gonzales voice of his.

Musicians Friend has the new Martin Felix The Cat III

i went to the martin factory in pa last year. Went to the little restaraunt next door, had a couple beers. Then i found the closest guitar store in town, picked up my martin and shot one in my pants. God i could sure use that money now. But everyone that plays my martin falls in love with it. The most common response is, this guitar is in my hands now and you are not getting it back. I love it. Dcx1e tawny satinwood.

matthoj wrote:i went to the martin factory in pa last year. Went to the little restaraunt next door, had a couple beers. Then i found the closest guitar store in town, picked up my martin and shot one in my pants. God i could sure use that money now. But everyone that plays my martin falls in love with it. The most common response is, this guitar is in my hands now and you are not getting it back. I love it. Dcx1e tawny satinwood.

Did you get to play any of the guitars? I played the Elvis and Johnny Cash Sig models,but they had a bunch of diff ones available.Purchased the mandatory t-shirt and guitar picks.

i definately played 85% of the guitars in that little room where you can try the guitars. it was tough cause there was some other people in their playing at the same time, and i'm all like riffing punk shit and they were like playing dueling banjo type stuff. i played the johnny cash guitar, and whatever guitar they say is the most expensive best guitar (which was total sex) that i can remember. but once fricking captian nine hundred fingers left the room, i jammed with this older guy, and he started singing some gospel type stuff. he turned to the two ladies he had with him and was like, come on ladies, sing along, you know this one from church and i was like holy shit but just kept jamming. they could really carry a tune....
this was my favorite part of the day...

i scared the shit out of these kids.

matthoj wrote:i definately played 85% of the guitars in that little room where you can try the guitars. it was tough cause there was some other people in their playing at the same time, and i'm all like riffing punk shit and they were like playing dueling banjo type stuff. i played the johnny cash guitar, and whatever guitar they say is the most expensive best guitar (which was total sex) that i can remember. but once fricking captian nine hundred fingers left the room, i jammed with this older guy, and he started singing some gospel type stuff. he turned to the two ladies he had with him and was like, come on ladies, sing along, you know this one from church and i was like holy shit but just kept jamming. they could really carry a tune....
this was my favorite part of the day...

i scared the shit out of these kids.

I want THAT Felix The Cat Martin.That's my favorite.

Someone just photoshopped a morph of Bean Dip and Ozzy.

haha, good eye!