Martin OM-42 Acoustic Guitar That John Mayer Plays

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Known for its elegant design and warm, full-bodied tone. The Martin OM-42 is beautifully crafted true to Martin tradition, featuring a solid spruce top, with sides and back of East Indian rosewood. Martin’s sleek, Modified Low Oval neck with High Performance Taper offers silky playability up and down the Plek’d-to-perfection ebony fretboard.

Martin OM-42 Acoustic Guitar Features:

• Solid spruce top with scalloped spruce 1/4″ X bracing

• Abalone with multi-stripe rosette

• Antique white top binding with abalone/multi-stripe inlay

• East Indian Rosewood back and sides; Style 45 back purfling; multi-stripe back and side inlays

• Antique white endpiece with multi-stripe inlay

• Select mahogany Modified Low Oval neck with 
High Performance taper and gloss finish

• Dovetail 14th-fret neck joint; antique white with multi-stripe heelcap

• 25.4″ scale length

• East Indian rosewood headplate with antique-white/multi-stripe binding and block inlay logo

• Ebony fingerboard with 20 Plek’d frets, antique white with multi-stripe binding, and abalone Style 45 Snowflake inlays

• 1.75″-wide bone nut; ebony 
Modern Belly bridge with drop-in Compensated Bone saddle

• Faux tortoise pickguard

• Gold open-gear tuning machines with Butterbean knobs

• Gloss finish on top, back, and sides

• Vintage-inspired aging toner applied to top