New for 2025!

The Custom Shop 000-18 makes it easier than ever to get your hands on a handcrafted Martin built with premium tonewoods. With a solid Adirondack spruce top and genuine mahogany back and sides, this short-scale Auditorium model offers warm, articulate tone with exceptional clarity. It features hand-shaped Golden Era scalloped bracing and a dovetail neck joint for vintage-inspired resonance and response. The 000 body is equally at home with fingerpicking, strumming, or recording, and the faux tortoise binding adds a refined, custom touch. Designed to bring Custom Shop quality to more players, this special model is ready when you are—no need to start from scratch. For those seeking an heirloom-level guitar within reach, the Custom Shop 000-18 delivers.

Specs:

• Recommended Strings: Authentic Acoustic Lifespan® 2.0 Guitar Strings Phosphor Bronze - Light
• Top Material: Solid Adirondack Spruce
  
• Finish: Gloss
  
• Top Color: Aging Toner
  
• Top Inlay Material: Multi-Stripe
  
• Binding: Faux Tortoise
  
• Bridge Material: Ebony
  
• Bridge Style: GE Modern Belly - Drop in Saddle
  
• Bridge Pin Material: Black Plastic
  
• Pickguard: Faux Tortoise
  
• Rosette: Old Style 18 Multi-Stripe
  
• Nut/Saddle: Bone
  
• Saddle Radius: 16"
• Body Size: 000-14 Fret
  
• Construction: Dovetail Neck Joint
  
• Back & Side Material: Solid Genuine Mahogany
  
• Back and Side Finish: Gloss
  
• Back and Sides Color: Dark Mahogany
• Back Purfling/Strip: Style 18
• Bracing Pattern: Forward-Shifted X-Brace, GE-Scalloped Hand Shaped
  
• Brace Material: 5/16" Adirondack Spruce
• Neck Shape: GE Modified Low Oval with High-Performance Taper
  
• Neck Material: Select Hardwood
  
• Neck Color: Dark Mahogany
  
• Finish Neck: Satin
  
• Scale Length: 24.9"
  
• Number of Frets Total: 20
  
• Neck Joins Body At: 14th Fret
  
• Fingerboard Wood:  Ebony
  
• Fingerboard Width at Nut: 1 3/4''
  
• Fingerboard Inlay: Abalone Old Style 18
  
• Fingerboard Binding Material: None
  
• Side Dots: White
  
• Headplate Material: East Indian Rosewood
• Tuning Machines: Nickel Open Gear with Butterbean knobs
  
• Case:  Hardshell