Pre-Owned Martin D28 Style Custom Shop Cocobolo - Swiss Spruce w/ K+K
Martin
Regular price $4,999.00
Pre-Loved Martin Cocobolo Custom Shop D28 Style w/ Pickup
Tobias Music - Your Hometown Martin Custom Shop Expert Dealer
Proud of our 45 Year Partnership with Martin Guitars
We built this one originally. One of our finest Custom Shop designs. Cocobolo paired with high-altitude Swiss spruce. Our favorite wood combination. Original buyer/owner is coveting vintage instruments, so he has offered this one for sale. Excellent condition, played with the utmost of care. Always properly humidified. K+K Pure Mini pickup installed by our Gold Level Guitar Tech Service.
A guitar with Cocobolo back and sides paired with a Swiss spruce top offers a rich, complex tonal profile that balances power, clarity, and warmth. Cocobolo is a dense, rosewood-like tonewood known for its deep bass response, bright treble shimmer, and strong midrange presence. It provides a natural reverb-like quality, with excellent sustain and a pronounced overtone richness, making it an ideal choice for players who appreciate harmonic complexity.
Swiss spruce (European spruce) is prized for its lightweight yet stiff structure, offering a clear, articulate, and highly responsive tone. It enhances note separation and dynamics, making it well-suited for both fingerstyle and strumming. Over time, it matures beautifully, adding warmth and depth to its naturally crisp and balanced sound.
Together, this combination creates a powerful yet refined tonal character—deep and resonant lows, sparkling highs, and a dynamic midrange with impressive clarity and sustain. The result is a versatile instrument that excels in fingerstyle, flatpicking, and expressive, dynamic playing styles.
Stunning Martin Custom Shop Cocobolo Dreadnought. Styled after the legendary D28, this one is a masterpiece. Premium Cocobolo back and sides, hand selected for our Custom Shop Expert Dealership. Paired with certified high altitude Swiss spruce, this wood combo has been one of our all-time favorites here in suburban Chicago. Big, bold tone with an added layer of sweetness and warmth. With premium Cocobolo and a 7-8 grade Swiss Spruce this one looks as good as it sounds. Our friends at Martin Custom Shop went all the way with this one. With over 4 decades of custom shop experience, we have built some of the nicest guitars out of the Martin Custom Shop. This one is pretty sweeeeet.
Martin Custom Shop Expert Special 28 Style Dreadnought
- Dreadnought 14-Fret Body
- Hand Selected President Cocobolo Back and Sides
- Top Grade 7-8 Certified High Altitude Swiss Spruce
- Adirondack Bracing
- European Flamed Maple Binding
- 28 Style Black/Maple Fiber Rosette
- Modified Low Oval Neck Profile
- High-Performance Neck Taper
- Schaller Nickel GrandTune Butterbean Tuners
- Black Ebony Fretboard and Bridge
- Diamonds and Squares Long Pattern Fretboard Inlay
- Gloss Body / Satin Neck
- Dovetail Neck Joint
- Forward Shifted Scalloped X Bracing
- 28 Style Checkered Back Inlay
- Figured Cocobolo Headplate Overlay
- Martin Authentic Lifespan Medium Gauge Strings
- Deluxe 5 Ply Hardshell Case
- Made in USA
- Item # 10CMDFGLC21-078197
- Product Code #2394611