MARTIN OM-45GE GOLDEN ERA Description
- orchestra body style based on a 1933 14-fret OM-45, solid Adirondack spruce top, solid Brazilian rosewood back and sides, scalloped bracing, round soundhole with Style 45 three-stripe rosette (5/9/5 grouping with a large middle ring of abalone pearl), grained ivoroid binding, abalone pearl and B/M/B fiber top inlays that goes around the fingerboard, abalone pearl with B/M/B fiber back and side inlays, Style 45 Golden Era back stripe, mahogany neck, 14/20-fret grained ivoroid-bound ebony fingerboard with abalone pearl snowflake inlays, grained ivoroid-bound solid Brazilian rosewood headstock overlay with Golden Era-style verical block Martin logo, three-per-side Waverly gold tuners with butterbean buttons, ebony 1930s-style belly bridge with long saddle, fossilized ivory bridge pins with black pearl dots, tortoise beveled pickguard, Natural polished gloss finish with Vintage Toner top, 25.4 in. scale, case included, mfg. summer 1998, summer 2000-04.
For the first run of this guitar, 14 instruments were produced in 1998. This number was chosen because 14 guitars were originally made in 1930.