Really Cool Article on the Origins of the D-18 & D-28

[Charmed Life Picks]

I really enjoyed this. Hope you do too.

https://www.samash.com/spotlight/the...atest-guitars/

The first guitar I bought was a Takamine F-360S, which I still have. It was a D-28 knock-off with the "lawsuit" logo in gold script. I bought it in, I think, 1975-76. I still have it and it sounds really good. Funny, I had the strangest dream about this guitar just last night. I was going on a ski trip to the Rockies with a bunch of old buddies, but Robert Redford was with us. I called him "Bob." In a hotel in Kansas City (in the dream) the bellhop brought the brown hardshell case that has always held the Tak, but the guitar was missing; it was stolen. I woke up very sorrowful and dejected.

I was raised by Martin fanatics in L.A. I worked in a meat-market, pick-up bar in Calabasas, (with live music). A lot of the players played Les Pauls . Believe it or not, I never knew Gibson made flattops till about ten years. Now I prefer that shape to the standard square-shouldered D-28 style. The reason? I play bare-fingered fingerstyle, and I find the rounds-shouldered guitars to be much better finger-picking guitars.

Anyway, I enjoy. I return you to your regularly scheduled program.

Scott Memmer

[UncleJesse]

A quote from the article:

"The D-18 is Martin’s mortise and tenon neck joint, solid mahogany wood guitar – period"

Wait, what?

[Charmed Life Picks]

Jesse --

Didn't have time to read the article closely. That sounds like French. Anyone speak French?

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[whvick]

I thought that the 18 series was dovetail but he say mortise and tenon. Is that correct?
“The Model 18 is the most inexpensive of the mortise and tenon neck joint, old school models, which have basically been the same since 1934.”

[UncleJesse]

Originally Posted by whvick

I thought that the 18 series was dovetail but he say mortise and tenon. Is that correct?
“The Model 18 is the most inexpensive of the mortise and tenon neck joint, old school models, which have basically been the same since 1934.”

It's a dovetail neck and always has been. It's the most inexpensive of the dovetail necks maybe.

[JKMartin]

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[J Patrick]

Originally Posted by UncleJesse

It's a dovetail neck and always has been. It's the most inexpensive of the dovetail necks maybe.

...yeah....that’s a pretty substantial blunder by guitar geekery standards...