I found that even shop custom Martins can be hard to sell at the correct price -- mainly because you're not sure what the reference point is.
Where do you pigeonhole a D-18 with red spruce top, forward shifted bracing (V style, not GE) and enlarged sound hole?
It wasn't really a V or a GE, so I advertised it as a D-18V with red spruce. But if you're a collector who wants every Martin standard model, it's not really a V. And around the time I was selling it, the latest D-18 appeared with the forward bracing, so......
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