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Old 03-09-2019, 08:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Manothemtns View Post
Must have been a great experience. I've not played one but as I understand it, Martin employed the use of a CT-machine (scan) on an actual 1939 example to accurately reproduce the vintage qualities. The example guitar is likely worth $60K, so in that context, $5,500 for the "Authentic" seems like a real bargain.
I guess that is one way to look at it... Think of all the money saved!

I also heard that about the CT scan - interesting process, for sure. Whatever they did, to my ears, they got it right.
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